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Ulster Orchestra: Sugar-Plum Swing

Name: Ulster Orchestra: Sugar-Plum Swing
Start: 2025-12-05T19:45:00
Location: Ulster Hall

Ulster Hall

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Christmas is often the time for a trip to the ballet, and this concert will take you there; albeit with a bit of a twist! In 1960, the great jazz band leader Duke Ellington and his regular collaborator Billy Strayhorn took the music (and movement titles!) of Tchaikovsky’s ballet suite The Nutcracker and made it swing. This concert’s concerto, Luck, commissioned by the Ulster Orchestra for Matilda Lloyd, starts with string and wind flurries like s...

Program

Robin Haigh - LUCK Concerto

Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky - The Nutcracker Suite

Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky - Swan Lake

Participants

Cosette Justo Valdés

Conductor

Matilda Lloyd

Trumpet

Ulster Hall

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