London Medical Orchestra

Programme:

Tchaikovsky - 1812 Overture.
Saint-Saens - Danse Macabre.
Debussy (arr. Caplet) - Children’s Corner Suite.
Prokoviev - Lieutenant Kijé Concert Suite.
Selection of carols.

For their Christmas concert, the London Medical Orchestra are teaming up with the Barnet Band to present a children's gala of well-known musical pictures, dances and tales, following their sell-out concerts earlier in the year.

This will be a hugely enjoyable evening for the whole family, packed full of well-known winter classics for orchestra.

The musical images of Debussy’s Children’s Corner Suite, originally composed for piano, are cast in seasonal orchestral colours in Caplet’s arrangements: the ‘Serenade for the Doll’, ’The snow is dancing’ and ‘The Little Shepherd’ lead up to the famous ‘Golliwogg’s Cake Walk’.

This is followed by Saint-Saëns’ famous Danse Macabre, with its dancing skeletons!

From France to Russia: the well-spun stories of Prokofiev’s Lieutenant Kijé Suite never fail to spark the imagination, and the band and orchestra combine in Tchaikovsky's 1812 Overture, providing a fitting climax to the evening.