Trowbridge Symphony Orchestra

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BYRD Earl of Oxfords March
BARTOK Dance Suite
COPLAND Symphony No 3

Aaron Copland's mighty final symphony features the famous Fanfare for the Common Man. Alongside this epic orchestral statement, Trowbridge Symphony Orchestra present a lively first half including Bartók's colourful Dance Suite.

This concert is dominated by Copland's majestic Symphony Number 3 which features his Fanfare for the Common Man which appears and reappears in various forms throughout the symphony. It makes great demands on an expanded TSO brass section in particular. The concert begins with a virtuosic arrangement for orchestral brass of William Byrd's Earl of Oxford's March. The is followed by Bartok's colourful Dances for Orchestra, featuring five dances drawn from Arabic, Wallachian and Hungarian melodies.

The concert ends with Copland's majestic Third Symphony. The brass section are again to the fore in the Fanfare for the Common Man which appears and reappears in various forms throughout the symphony. Composed in 1942 it was inspired by a speech made by US Vice President Harney Wallace who championed the Common Man at the height of the Second World War.