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On Your Doorstep: The Hero's Journey in Coleraine

The Diamond, ColeraineColeraine, Northern Ireland, BT52 1SA, United Kingdom
Dates/times in London time zone
Thursday 20 November 202519:30

The Ulster Orchestra is delighted to return to Coleraine for their annual concert to perform this exhilarating concert with special guests, violinist Alena Baeva and conductor Gabriel Bebeşelea.

Heroes are dangerous – they can inspire us to great things, or, if they stumble, shatter our illusions. Elysium by Samy Moussa finds us in the everlasting paradise where heroes dwell; majestic, virtuous and ecstatically triumphant. Beethoven’s Third Symphony lost its original dedication when Napoleon turned from hero to villain and the epigraph simply became ‘Heroic... dedicated to the memory of a great man’; this extraordinary, revolutionary symphony makes a hero of Beethoven himself. Dvořák’s Violin Concerto was not written for a hero so much as a friend and collaborator in Joseph Joachim and it is bursting with Czech folk music influences, especially in its skirling, dancing final movement.

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