“Britannia Major & Minor: Orchestral Music of the British Isles”

8. November 2018 19:00

Sebastian Abbott

Just what are the British Isles, exactly, and what do they sound like? Join Sebastian Abbott on a tour of orchestral music from the countries and regions of that eternally baffling collection of islands off the coast of France. What is Great Britain? Where is the Kingdom United and where is it, perhaps, not? Do the Irish get a say in any of this? With music from Malcolm Arnold to Ralph Vaughan-Williams, from Edward Elgar to Edward German and many others in between, explore diverse orchestral music and how it reflects the distinctive cultures of the British Isles.

Sebastian Abbott is a product development engineer working in the automotive industry – that is what originally brought him to Heidelberg – on a two-year foreign assignment. It was music though that led him to meeting his wife and extending his stay to eleven years and counting! As principal trombonist with the Musikfreunde Heidelberg Symphony Orchestra and native of the British Isles, he has both played in and presented at a concert, orchestral music from around the British Isles. He has two daughters and, thankfully, very understanding neighbours.

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