Virginia’s Blue Ridge Music Festival
Sunday, June 9 3 pm
Floyd County High School Gym (new)
2 pm Pre-concert Talk
“Beethoven’s Fifth and Elgar Variations”
Festival Symphony Orchestra
David Stewart Wiley, conductor
Beethoven
Symphony No. 5
in C minor
I. Allegro con Brio
II. Andante con Moto
III. Allegro (Scherzo) without pause to:
IV. Finale: Allegro
Intermission
Elgar
Variations on an Original Theme
“Enigma”
1. Theme: The composer’s beloved wife – C. Alice Elgar (?)
2. A pianist friend Hew Stewart-Powell
3. Richard Townsend, a bass singer
4. William Baker, a country squire
5. Richard Arnold, raconteur & wit
6. Isabel Fitton, viola student of the composer
7. Arthur Griffith – architect full of surprises
8. Winifred Norberg – secretary to the orchestra
9. “Nimrod” variation – conversation about Beethoven with musicologist August Jaeger
10. Dorabella Penny – close friend
11. Bulldog Dan saved from drowning
12. Basil Nevinson, cellist
13. Unknown lady on a sea voyage, unlucky 13
14. Finale – autobiographical to composer?
See Program Notes on page 22; the Program will last about an hour and a half.
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