Musically Speaking, Concert 1 at Orpheum Theatre

Walton
Façade: Suite No. 2
Butterworth
The Banks of Green Willow
Elgar
Cello Concerto in E minor*
Vaughan Williams
Symphony No. 4 in F minor

Outstanding VSO Principal Cello Ariel Barnes makes his VSO concerto debut performing Elgar’s Cello Concerto, a thoughtful, serene, elegiac work composed in the aftermath of World War I. The program also includes the beautiful orchestral idyll, The Banks of Green Willow by Vaughan Williams’s close friend George Butterworth, an English composer killed in action in the First World War.