Worthing Symphony Orchestra is joined by the Kosmos Ensemble and soloist Miloš Milivojević.

Programme:
Parry - Lady Radnor’s Suite
Walton - Touch her soft lips (Henry V)
Igor Shamo - Accordion Concerto
Grace Williams - Sea Sketches
Errolyn Wallen - Triple Concerto
Astor Piazolla - Libertango

The mesmerising Kosmos Ensemble have redefined the relationship between classical and world music. They share a passion for improvisation that thrives in Errolyn Wallen’s dazzling Triple Concerto, composed especially for this unique trio - violinist Harriet Mackenzie, violist Meg-Rosaleen Hamilton and accordion player Miloš Milivojević.

Miloš also stars as soloist in the Accordion Concerto by Ukrainian composer Igor Shamo, who was born in Kiev in 1925 and served as a medical orderly in WWII. A member of the Union of Soviet Composers from 1948 until his death in 1982, he is best remembered for his popular song, the unofficial anthem of Kiev.

Grace Williams’s Sea Sketches reflect the coast around her birthplace, Barry Island in South Wales. Born in 1906, she won a scholarship to study at Cardiff University and was then accepted to study at the Royal College of Music in London. Sea Sketches dates from 1944 and was composed in Hampstead. It clearly reflects the composer’s desire to return to her seaside birthplace – which she did in 1946 – and is dedicated to her parents "who had the good sense to set up home on the coast of Glamorgan”.

Parry is most famous for composing Jerusalem. He became director of the Royal College of Music, significantly raising teaching standards. In the autumn of 1918 he contracted Spanish Flu and died at Knightscroft, Rustington on 7th October 1918. His Lady Radnor Suite was composed for the pioneering conductor, Lady Radnor and her string orchestra.

From Tue 25 July -Tickets available online
Tue 25th July, 12pm - Individual Shows on sale to WSO Members only (Members will receive code)
Fri 28th July, 12pm - Individual Shows on general sale