The Vancouver Bach Choir presents the Bergmann Piano Duo and Fringe Percussion, May 27

On the concert program are Mike Oldfield’s Tubular Bells and Stravinsky’s Symphony of Psalms

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Tubular Bells.

The Vancouver Bach Choir is delighted to welcome back the Bergmann Piano Duo and Fringe Percussion for an exciting evening of music featuring Stravinsky’s Symphony of Psalms and Mike Oldfield’s Tubular Bells.

Leslie Dala conducts the three ensembles on May 27 at 7:30 pm at the Vancouver Playhouse.

Tubular Bells was recorded in 1973, after the professional resident musicians at Richard Branson’s country estate, The Manor, had finished up for the day. The then-unknown Mike Oldfield settled in for a night of frantic production on his debut record.

By the next morning, Oldfield had created one of the most groundbreaking pieces in modern-music history. Experimental and daring, technically advanced and sublimely crafted all at once, Tubular Bells was born.

Stravinsky wrote Symphony of Psalms in 1930, the work commissioned by Serge Koussevitzky for the Boston Symphony Orchestra’s 50th anniversary. The title page reads, in French: “This symphony, composed/to the glory of GOD/is dedicated to the/‘Boston Symphony Orchestra’/on the occasion/of the fiftieth anniversary of its existence.” Stravinsky revised the work in 1948.

For tickets and more information, see Vancouver Bach Choir.

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