Composer: Abe, Keiko (b. 1937)

Aberdeenshire born percussionist Dame Evelyn Glennie never fails to impress an audience. To celebrate Glennie's 50th birthday, the BBC Proms Chamber Music series fourth concert was a special concert of four pieces written in the last 20 years.

The Percussive Planet Ensemble was founded seven years ago, when the then 22-year-old Martin Grubinger first performed his Percussive Planet (twelve percussion pieces from around the world) at the Beethoven Festival in Bonn.

There is a famous scene in the noir classic The Third Man in which Joseph Cotten returns to his hotel and is swiftly bundled into a cab that speeds off recklessly through the streets of Vienna.

La OSN nos ofreció un programa con cierto aire oriental. Como primer número tuvimos The WAVE impressions, concierto para marimba y orquesta de Keiko Abe, compositora y marimbista japonesa, y en la segunda parte la muy conocida suite orquestal Scheherazade de Rimski-Korsakov.