Department of Music

CHOMBEC

Rubbra Revived: Sinfonia Sacra and Beyond

Saturday 15 March 2008, 1.30-4.30pm
Victoria Rooms

Edmund Rubbra (1901-86)

An afternoon workshop preceding a performance of Edmund Rubbra's Sinfonia Sacra (The Resurrection), given by the University of Bristol Choral Society & Symphony Orchestra, conducted by John Pickard.
(Programme also includes Mozart: Requiem in D minor)

Edmund Rubbra (1901-1986) considered his Ninth Symphony (Sinfonia Sacra) his most personal achievement. Yet, since it’s première in 1973, it has received only one further public performance, until this evening’s concert. This workshop explores a deeply felt, and highly unusual work, placing it in the context of the composer’s life and music and considering its place in the cycle of eleven symphonies that occupied him from 1935 to 1979.

The papers to be given at the workshop are:

  • The Fall and Rise of Edmund Rubbra
    Leo Black (Author of Edmund Rubbra: Symphonist (Boydell Press, 2008))
  • Intertextuality and form in Sinfonia Sacra
    Katrina Buzzard (University of Newcastle)
  • Remembering Rubbra
    The composer’s sons, Benedict Rubbra and Adrian Yardley, in conversation with Stephen Banfield

Tickets:
workshop £10 (free to Friends of CHOMBEC)
concert (7.30pm) £12 (Balcony: reserved – no concessions); £10 (Auditorium: unreserved - £5 to Friends of CHOMBEC)
To book please telephone 0117 9545032 or email ruth.hill@bris.ac.uk