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Proms 2024
23 Jul 2022, Sage Gateshead
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Proms 2022 Proms at Sage Gateshead: Folk Connections

Proms at Sage Gateshead
Proms at Sage Gateshead: Folk Connections
19:30 Sat 23 Jul 2022 Sage Gateshead
Under its new Principal Conductor Dinis Sousa, the Royal Northern Sinfonia explores the folk roots of music by John Adams and Dvořák – live at Sage Gateshead.
Under its new Principal Conductor Dinis Sousa, the Royal Northern Sinfonia explores the folk roots of music by John Adams and Dvořák – live at Sage Gateshead.

Programme

      • Shaker Loops(26 mins)
      • Indelible, Miraculous(4 mins)world premiere
      • Thrift (Dig In, Dig In)(3 mins)arr. Jim Molyneux
      • Acorn(4 mins)arr. Jim Molyneux
      • Little Astronaut(3 mins)arr. Jim Molyneux
      • Moth(4 mins)arr. Jim Molyneux
      • The Water of Tyne(3 mins)arr. Jim Molyneux
        • interval
        • Symphony No. 9 in E minor, ‘From the New World’(40 mins)

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    About This Event

    Symphonies from new worlds, with deep roots in the old. For John Adams, driving rhythms and clean textures were a path to the musical future, with a surprising link to the idealism of America’s frontier past. Dvořák meant his Ninth Symphony as a salute to his American hosts, and yet every note glows with passionate longing for his home, far away in rural Bohemia. The common thread is folklore, and in this Prom from Sage Gateshead, Dinis Sousa and the Royal Northern Sinfonia collaborate with the young Tyneside community choir Voices of the River’s Edge and the folk ensemble Spell Songs to bridge centuries, and continents, with the shared joy of grassroots music-making. A world premiere from Master of the Queen's music Judith Weir completes the programme. She sets Indelible Miraculous, a poem by Julia Darling.

    Image: Dinis Sousa © Sim Canetty-Clarke