Relayed from the New Pavilion, Bournemouth
No. XXVIII of the Thirty-fourth Winter Series
The Bournemouth Municipal Augmented Orchestra
Conductors:
Mr. FREDERICK KING-HALL
Mr. STANLEY WILSON
Sir DAN GODFREY MORAVA (Violin)
(First Performance)
Conducted by The Composer
Mr. King-Hall has furnished a brief note on his work: This Overture was composed as a tribute to the immortal genius of Schubert, and that it might be undyingly associated with his name, the first four bars of his "Unfinished" Symphony were taken and reconstructed to form part of the first subject of the Overture, the time, tempo, and mode being altered. A short bridge passage, a plaintive but insistent call from the past, voiced by the clarinet, introduces the second subject, given out on the French Horn - a love song, sung in the shades of peace - of which much is made in the development section. After the recapitulation, the Overture is brought to a close by a short but brilliant coda embodying the reconstructed bars, thus ending with the same motif as it began.'
(First Performance at these Concerts)
Conducted by The Composer
The Skye Symphony was composed in the autumn of 1927 and gained a Carnegie Award in the following year. The composer tells us that it is rhapsodical in character, but has yet classic principles. There is one principal motive which pervades the whole work; heard in different ways and moods, its phrases have a special significance. It is the impression of the Island in general that it seeks to express rather than any definite details.