The Cumnock
Tryst Tenth
Birthday Gala
Concert
All the Hills and Vales Along
A 10th birthday celebration of brass, strings and mighty voices
Saturday 5th October 2024 7.30pm
Barony Hall, Barony Campus, Auchinleck Road, KA18 1RS
The main work in this concert is All the Hills and Vales Along which James MacMillan composed for the 2018 Cumnock Tryst festival to mark the centenary of the WW1 Armistice. This is an oratorio based on poems by Scotsman Charles Hamilton Sorley who was killed at the Battle of Loos in 1915. The concert also has the world premiere of two new works by Gillian Walker and Erin Thomson, settings for chamber choir and solo brass, of poems written during the Tryst’s lockdown phase of our A Musical Celebration of the Coalfields project by Irene Howat and Aileen Wood. The Maxwell Quartet perform some of their distinctive Scottish folk music arrangements and the Dalmellington Band kick it all off in a similarly traditional fashion.
Event information
7.30pm on Saturday 5th October 2024
Approximate running time 1 hour, no interval
Tickets
Full price: £26
Local Residents, Students and Under 26s: £20
Unwaged and Under 18s: £7
Barony Hall
Barony Campus, Auchinleck Road, KA18 1RS
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Joshua Ellicott tenor
The Cumnock Tryst Festival Chorus with Ayr Choral Union
Choral Octet from the Royal Conservatoire of Scotland
Dalmellington Band
Maxwell Quartet
Nikita Naumov double bass
Rebecca Wilson flugelhorn and trumpet
Andrew McTaggart Chorus Master
Eamonn Dougan, Andrew Duncan, James MacMillan Conductors
Programme
Andrew Duncan March from Knockshinnoch
Etienne Crausaz Balkan Dances
Andrew Duncan A New World Overture Scottish Folk Songs arranged by Maxwell Quartet
Gillian Walker Wearit bi herd lawbor, Folk creepit tae bed an slept (World Premiere)
Erin Thomson On Green Hill (World Premiere)
James MacMillan All the Hills and Vales Along
This performance will be British Sign Language interpreted by long time Tryst Festival concert goer Paul Whittaker OBE. Please let the box office know when booking so that a suitable place for you to sit will be held for you.
