Guildhall go Westside
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The fiery Latin American dances at the heart of Bernstein's West Side Story suit brass instruments wonderfully. Eric Crees' well-loved arrangement for large brass ensemble will be performed this Friday in London with the arranger himself directing the Guildhall Brass Ensemble.
The concert pairs the music of this 1957 hit musical with a more traditional setting of the Romeo and Juliet story in Prokofiev's lush romantic score from only twenty years earlier.
Come along this Friday lunchtime for this free concert from the latest crop of Guildhall's finest, depicting cha-cha, mambo, pas de deux and high piccolo trumpet pointe work.
Guildhall Brass Ensemble
Friday 10th July, 1.05pm
Music Hall, Guildhall School of Music & Drama, Silk St, London EC2Y 8DT
Eric Crees conductor
Romeo & Juliet suite (Prokofiev, arr. Archibald)
West Side Story (Bernstein, arr. Crees)
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