Thursday 3 March 2005, 7.30pm
SPEAKERS' CORNER AT 6PM IN THE AUDITORIUM

LET'S FACE THE MUSIC ...      

Stravinsky  Circus Polka*
Satie  Parade*
Mark-Anthony Turnage  Riffs and Refrains     WORLD PREMIERE
Debussy  Jeux
Shostakovich  The Golden Age: scenes

Mark Elder  conductor
André de Ridder  conductor*
Michael Collins  clarinet
John Savident  celebrity guest
Sir Howard Bernstein  celebrity guest

This wickedly funny, colourful programme combines jazz, vaudeville, ballet, the circus and football. It kicks off with Satie's ballet Parade - enlivened by solo parts for typewriter (performed by John Savident, better known as Fred Elliot from Coronation Street), lottery wheel ('played' by Sir Howard Bernstein, Chief Executive of Manchester City Council) and pistols (shot by Mark Elder, the Hallé's Music Director) - and ends with the Music Hall scene from Shostakovich's weird and wacky Golden Age ballet featuring footballers and boxers. Staying with sport, Debussy's ballet score Jeux charts a triangular love/tennis match. Mark Elder is joined by the superb Michael Collins as soloist in Riffs and Refrains, a new clarinet concerto for the Hallé by Mark-Anthony Turnage whose musical style mixes jazz and classical idioms.  

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