
Enigma Variations
Durham University Orchestral Society Symphony Orchestra
Conductor: Michael Kohn
Modest Mussorgsky: Night on Bald Mountain
Ruth Gipps: Knight in Armour
George Gershwin: Cuban Overture
Edward Elgar: ‘Enigma’ Variations
Durham University Orchestral Society opens what they promise will be an ‘ambitious’ year with a lively programme of orchestral imagery: a midsummer night of pagan festivities on Bald Mountain; Durham alumna Ruth Gipps’ cinematic tone poem Knight in Armour; a lively trip to Cuba and finally, Edward Elgar’s much loved musical portraits of his friends – with a musical puzzle at their heart.
Tickets £14 Standard / £12 Concession