Vives 'Les Olympiques'!
3:00pm, Sun, 14 Jul 2024
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Production: Vive 'Les Olympiques'! Type of event: Performance Start time: 3:00pm Venue: The Garden Rooms at Tennants, Leyburn, North Yorkshire, DL8 5SG Description: 
Richmondshire Orchestra will be under starter's orders for a special 'Olympics-2024'-themed concert, featuring music by composers from countries ranking top in the 1924 Paris Olympics medal table.
Representing France on what will be 'Bastille Day' we have Offenbach's Overture to 'Orpheus in the Underworld', with its quintessential Can Can; from the US, Gershwin's 'American in Paris' and from Italy, Rossini's 'William Tell' Overture.
Meanwhile, what concert dedicated to the Olympic Games would be complete without the iconic theme to Vangelis' British film 'Chariots of Fire'?
Programme:- Rossini, Overture 'William Tell'
- Jarnefelt, Praeludium
- Arnold, English Dances (set 2, Numbers 5-8, Opus 33)
- Vangelis, Theme from 'Chariots of Fire'
- Sibelius, Karelia Suite
- Offenbach, Overture 'Orpheus in the Underworld'
- Gershwin, An American in Paris
