John Keys (Nottingham)
Family Concert: Heroes & Villains
(Peter and the Wolf meet Darth Vader and oo7)
with John Holmes (narrator) and dancers
Imperial March: John Williams
Peter and the Wolf: Sergei Prokofiev (arr. Heinrich Grimm) with John Holmes, narrator
Interval
Peer Gynt suite no 1: Edvard Grieg
Music from James Bond and Star Wars
Tickets available from the Royal Centre Box Office
We start the 2016 Season with a concert for all the family. Prokofiev’s evergreen Peter and the Wolf is presented in a new guise with organ accompaniment showing off all the colours of the Binns Organ. It’s narrated by popular Radio Nottingham broadcaster John Holmes.
Grieg’s Peer Gynt suite features not just the organ but dancers as well, from the glorious freshness of Morning (remember the coffee advert?) to the bass-heavy grumblings of In the Hall of the Mountain King. Then it’s very modern: James Bond and… Star Wars!!!