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HAYDN | The Creation

Programme

FRANZ JOSEPH HAYDN  The Creation

 

Artists

Halifax Choral Society

THE HANOVER BAND

John Pryce-Jones director

 

 

When
15 April 2018
6:30 pm

Where
The Victoria Theatre, 2 Foundation Street, Halifax HX1 1BP, UK
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Tickets
£12-£24 (Booking fee applies)
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Additional Info
Victoria Theatre Box Office: 01422 351158

The Hanover Band

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.

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