Featuring RBC Conductors Xinyue Liu & Dexter Drown
Xinyue Liu: Varèse - Octandre, Milhaud - La création du monde
Dexter Drown: Copland - Appalachian Spring: Suite (13 instruments)
Come and hear RBC’s two final-year postgraduate conducting student ensembles in three 20th century pieces. Xinyue Liu directs two works by French composers, the three short movements of Edgard Varèse's Octandre, and Darius Milhaud’s jazz-inspired La création du monde; this is then followed by another piece of ballet music, as Dexter Drown leads the ensemble in a suite of music from Aaron Copland’s Appalachian Spring.
Featuring RBC Conductors Xinyue Liu & Dexter Drown
Xinyue Liu: Varèse - Octandre, Milhaud - La création du monde
Dexter Drown: Copland - Appalachian Spring: Suite (13 instruments)
Come and hear RBC’s two final-year postgraduate conducting student ensembles in three 20th century pieces. Xinyue Liu directs two works by French composers, the three short movements of Edgard Varèse's Octandre, and Darius Milhaud’s jazz-inspired La création du monde; this is then followed by another piece of ballet music, as Dexter Drown leads the ensemble in a suite of music from Aaron Copland’s Appalachian Spring.
Running time approx. one hour