Orchestral Masterpieces concert in RBAI (Inst) Common Hall on Saturday 22nd March
7:45pm, Sat, 22 Mar 2025
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Type of event: Performance Start time: 7:45pm Venue: RBAI (Inst) Common Hall, College Square East, Belfast BT1 6DL See map below Ticket pricing/options: Tickets (£17 or £15 concession) are now available to purchase online - please click the "Buy Tickets" icon below. Tickets: 
Tickets are also available from Matchetts Music or at the door (subject to availability)Description: 
We will return to the Common Hall at RBAI (Inst) on Saturday 22nd March for this season’s Orchestral Masterpieces Concert, our annual tribute to our founder Dr Havelock Nelson.
Florence Price - The Oak
Cimarosa - Concerto for two flutes (soloists - Andrew Douglas and Richard Douglas)
Rachmaninoff - Symphony no. 2
Conductor - Tanya Houghton
Leader - Zuzanna Edmonds
Florence Price (1887-1953) was a prolific composer of orchestral music, chamber pieces and songs. She made history when the Chicago Symphony Orchestra performed her Symphony in E minor, making her the first female Black composer to have a symphony performed by a major US orchestra. The Oak, or Songs of the Oak, is an orchestral tone poem – a classical work that paints a picture through music – by Price from 1943. The music is brooding and uneasy, with flourishes of rich, colourful orchestral scoring.
Domenico Cimarosa (1749-1801) is recognized as one of the great Italian comic opera composers of the 18th century. HIs Concerto in G major for two flutes displays the same facility for inventive lyricism that earned him that reputation. We are delighted to welcome local flautists Andrew Douglas and Richard Douglas as our soloists - click here to read their biographies!
The Symphony No. 2 in E minor, Op. 27, is a four-movement composition for orchestra written from October 1906 to April 1907 by the Russian composer Sergei Rachmaninoff and the piece remains one of the composer's most popular and best known compositions.
