Ouo Presents: An Evening Of Orchestral Dances With Daniel Hogan

On Saturday 24th May at 7.30pm at The Sheldonian Theatre, Oxford University Orchestra and conductor Daniel Hogan [https://www.danielhoganconductor.com/biography] present: An Evening of Orchestral Dances.

Young conductor Daniel Hogan joins OUO in an evening of orchestral dances, featuring as its main item Rachmaninoffs electrifying final masterpiece, the Symphonic Dances . Entirely written in the United States, this work evokes a ghostly nostalgia of the composers Russian homeland, saturated with ecclesiastical chants such as the Dies irae, and enigmatic retrospections on his earlier works the First Symphony and All-Night Vigil. John Adams captivating The Chairman Dances , an outtake from his first opera Nixon in China portraying Chairman and Madame Maos exuberant foxtrot, will open the concert, alongside the Dance Suite from Ginasteras Estancia , a lively ballet inspired by the epic Martin Fierro by Jos Hernndez saturated with spirited Argentinian rhythms.