The Hanover Band (1980-2020) has gone digital with an online festival of Beethoven Symphonies and iconic Chamber Music.
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September-December 2020
The Hanover Band will conclude its celebration of Beethoven with a symbolic broadcast shortly before midnight on New Year’s Eve. The orchestra recorded the composer’s Ninth Symphony earlier this year to conclude a project which not only celebrated Beet …
While we all continue to live during a time of uncertainty, The Hanover Band is performing Beethoven’s Ninth Symphony to celebrate the anniversary of the composer’s 250th birthday. It is a fitting conclusion to a project which has helped celebrate The …
HANOVER (Not Hannover; Germany) In terms of British history the majority of the music we play is from the Hanoverian period. Hanover also refers to Hanover Square in London, where Haydn performed his symphonies and arias in the Salomon Concerts in the 1790's.
BAND (ref: The New Grove Dictionary of Music and Musicians)
'An instrumental ensemble, larger than a chamber ensemble. Thus the '24 violins' of Louis XIV were called 'la grande bande' to distinguish them from Lully's 'petits violons', and Charles II's similar ensemble was known as ‘the King’s Band’. By extension, ‘band’ came to mean an orchestra in colloquial British usage’.
THE HANOVER BAND a period name for a period orchestra.