Symphony Central Coast (SCC) will present a special concert at Central Coast Grammar School on Sunday, November 26.
Fantastic Dances is guaranteed to get your toes tapping with symphonic dances, Hungarian dances, Slavonic dances, polkas, tangos, hoedowns and mambos.
The program will start with orchestral dances – the first movement of Rachmaninov’s Symphonic Dances, Ravel’s tribute to the glittering spectacle of the Viennese ballroom in 1855 through La Valse (The Waltz), a Hungarian Dance from Brahms and a Slavonic Dance from Dvořák.
Another waltz, this time from Tchaikovsky’s Eugene Onegin, and Strauss’ Thunder and Lighting Polka will round-off the first set of dances.
After interval, SCC will dip into dances from further afield – Polovtsian Dances from Alexander Borodin’s opera Prince Igor, and then, from the Americas, a Hoedown from Aaron Copland, Danzón no. 2 by Mexico’s Arturo Márquez and, from Argentina’s favourite son Astor Piazzolla, Libertango.
Then it’s back to Europe and Western Asia for the concluding set including Armenian-born Aram Khachaturian’s Sabre Dance, a Habanera from Lithuania’s national composer Eduard Balsys; the Dance of the Knights from Prokofiev’s Romeo and Juliet; and a can-can from Jacques Offenbach.
The concert will be held at 2.30pm on November 26 in the Central Coast Grammar School Performing Arts Centre.
Tickets can be bought at https://auccgs.sales.ticketsearch.com/sales/salesevent/96335
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Symphony Central Coast