season preview
John Finch, chairman of Haddington Concert Society describes the coming season:
I have just come from our June Food for the Soul concert, presented by Joan Busby and gifted vocal students and ex-students from the Tomlin School of Music at Napier University. From bittersweet Mahler and Finzi, via Rossini and Bizet to the deliciously risqué lyrics of Life is a Cabaret and I Love a Piano, it recalled Duke Ellington’s comment, “There are two kinds of music. Good music and the other kind”. Our season could have no better precept.
To the extent there is a theme, it is the exploration of unfamiliar associations: percussion and guitar; saxophone and piano; Vivaldi and jazz trio. Interspersed by these adventures we ponder the eternal core repertoire of voice, strings or piano. In short, we hope, something for every-one and a season that is even greater than the sum of its parts.
Our celebratory finale is all about dance. I am sure no-one needs any recommendation from me to book early for Martin Roscoe’s recital in April. It has long been our aim to hear this great pianist in our Gala series.
John Finch, June 2017
I have just come from our June Food for the Soul concert, presented by Joan Busby and gifted vocal students and ex-students from the Tomlin School of Music at Napier University. From bittersweet Mahler and Finzi, via Rossini and Bizet to the deliciously risqué lyrics of Life is a Cabaret and I Love a Piano, it recalled Duke Ellington’s comment, “There are two kinds of music. Good music and the other kind”. Our season could have no better precept.
To the extent there is a theme, it is the exploration of unfamiliar associations: percussion and guitar; saxophone and piano; Vivaldi and jazz trio. Interspersed by these adventures we ponder the eternal core repertoire of voice, strings or piano. In short, we hope, something for every-one and a season that is even greater than the sum of its parts.
Our celebratory finale is all about dance. I am sure no-one needs any recommendation from me to book early for Martin Roscoe’s recital in April. It has long been our aim to hear this great pianist in our Gala series.
John Finch, June 2017
