Program Booklet

RO NOW: Elgar & Dvořák

Saturday, October 14
20:30 hour until approximately 10:00 p.m.

Programme

Edward Elgar
Cello Concerto

Edward Elgar (1857-1934) 

Cello Concerto in E, op. 85 (1919) 

  • Adagio - Moderato 

  • Lento - Allegro molto 

  • Adagio 

  • Allegro - Moderato - Allegro ma non troppo - Adagio 

Antonín Dvorák
Symphony No. 7

Antonín Dvorák (1841-1904) 

Symphony no. 7 in d, op. 70 (1884-1885) 

  • Allegro maestoso 

  • Poco adagio 

  • Scherzo: Vivace - Poco meno mosso 

  • Finale: Allegro 

Afterwards
DJ MYTH

In Foyer 2, DJ FABEL will be spinning and the drinks will be cold. 

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Biographies

Residentie Orkest The Hague
Orchestra
Annual reach of over 40,000 schoolchildren, adults and amateur musicians in educational projects. Part of this is The Residents, through which the orchestra brings hundreds of children from districts in The Hague into contact with classical music.
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Tianyi Lu
Conductor
Award-winning New Zealand-based Tianyi Lu made her grand debut at Residentie Orkest in 2021 with Dvořák's Ninth Symphony. Worked with the leading orchestras and opera houses around the world.
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Camille Thomas
Cello
French-Belgian top cellist Camille Thomas has been playing the cello since she was four years old. She studied in Berlin and Weimar, won numerous prizes and is in great demand as a soloist on worldwide music stages.
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RO QUIZ

What was Dvořák's hobby?
  • Pigeon keeping

    Right answer: trains!

    Dvořák was a great train enthusiast. He could spend hours at the train station and knew all the departure times by heart. Inspiration for his Seventh Symphony is said to have originated at the Prague train station.

  • Trains

    Right answer: trains!

    Dvořák was a great train enthusiast. He could spend hours at the train station and knew all the departure times by heart. Inspiration for his Seventh Symphony is said to have originated at the Prague train station.

  • Footballs

    Right answer: trains!

    Dvořák was a great train enthusiast. He could spend hours at the train station and knew all the departure times by heart. Inspiration for his Seventh Symphony is said to have originated at the Prague train station.

Right answer: trains!

Dvořák was a great train enthusiast. He could spend hours at the train station and knew all the departure times by heart. Inspiration for his Seventh Symphony is said to have originated at the Prague train station.

Today in the orchestra

Wouter Vossen

Concertmaster
The orchestra's versatility and teamwork really appeal to me.
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Justa de Jong

Cello
I heard Elgar's Cello Concerto when I was very young and I was captivated from the beginning.
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Arno Stoffelsma

Timpani
I knew I wanted to play in an orchestra after my major, but clarinet jobs are thin there. So I started studying business economics at the same time, as a backup.
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