The World Changed at The Colston Hall in Bristol on 30 October 2014
Posted on: 23 Oct 2014The Colston Hall marks the centenary of the First World War with a moving concert of classical music on Thursday 30 October.
The evening is part of a series of events for Bristol 2014: The City and Conflict from the First World War to the Present Day, which takes place at various venues across the city, the UK and internationally.
The main focus is on the different ways in which composers and artists have responded to war and violence. For some, it fired up their already actively fervent imaginations, whilst others were left deeply affected and scarred by the horrors and brutalities of conflict.
The Colston Hall concert - entitled The World Changed - marks one hundred years after the first Canadian troops arrived in the UK to help in the war effort.
Conductor Pinchas Zuckerman will lead the National Arts Orchestra of Canada in their Colston Hall debut with a programme of unforgettable music, including Vaughan Williams' Fantasia on a Theme by Thomas Tallis, Bruch's Violin Concertio, Elgar's Sospiri, and Beethoven's mighty Symphony No. 7.
By turns impassioned, haunting, dynamic and powerful, it's a fitting tribute to the soldiers who sacrificed their lives on the altar of freedom, and perhaps a timely reminder that, even a hundred years on, the heroic deeds of past and present soldiers are never far from our minds.
You can get your tickets from the Colston Hall box office online here or by telephoning 0844 8871500.
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