Strings In Flight

Set up by local conductorPaul MacAlindin, our goal is for everyone to enjoy making and listening to live music in Govan. We do this with concerts, community and school music projects in Govan.We love celebrating Govan's rich heritage and folklore, but most of all, our local Govanites, whose warmth, colour and resilience influence everything we do. We are a flexible, innovative 21st century orchestral ensemble adapting to the needs of our local groups and spaces. We work alongside other agencies to help everyone celebrate Govan through music.

THE GLASGOW BARONS

Lush strings and soaring melodies, Vaughan Williams’ The Lark Ascending  &amp; two pioneering composers, Grace Williams and Florence Price

Govan and Linthouse Parish Church

Grace Williams - Sea SketchesVaughan Williams - The Lark Ascendingviolin - Tristan GurneyFlorence Price - Second String Quartet arr. string orchestra Topping the Classic FM Hall of Fame, The Lark Ascending flies free above a glowing countryside day. Though it began as a violin and piano work in 1914, Vaughan Williams created his orchestral and chamber orchestra versions soon after. Adam Johnson's beautiful arrangement here for string orchestra, with Tristan Gurney on solo violin, creates new subtleties to welcome the Govan summer.Grace Williams composed her five Sea Sketches in London in 1944, writing shortly after, "I just long to get home and live in comfort by the sea." She returned to her home town of Barry in South Wales two years later.Florence Price's Second String Quartet, here performed by The Glasgow Barons as a string symphony, gorgeously blends the intense romantic harmonies with the powerful awakening of her African American experience in 1935. The Lark AscendingHe rises and begins to round,He drops the silver chain of sound,Of many links without a break,In chirrup, whistle, slur and shake. For singing till his heaven fills,'Tis love of earth that he instils,And ever winging up and up,Our valley is his golden cup,And he the wine which overflows,To lift us with him as he goes. Till lost on his aerial ringsIn light, and then the fancy sings. George Meredith (1828 - 1909)

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