Dates:
Sa., 26. Sept. 2026, 11:00–12:00
**Edward Elgar**
_The Wand of Youth_, suites excerpts No. 1 Op. 1a and No. 2 Op. 1b
**Benjamin Britten**
_The Young Person’s Guide to the Orchestra_, Op. 34
(variations and fugue on a theme by Purcell)
From youth, for youth!
Britten, ever the teacher, decided to introduce the instruments of the orchestra and their families in a series of variations on a theme composed by Henry Purcell. _The Young Person’s Guide to the Orchestra_ serves as a veritable illustrated dictionary of an orchestra’s instruments.
With _The Wand of Youth_, Elgar dug out, late in his career, a series of pieces he had written as a child. He brilliantly orchestrated them into two suites, which plunge us into a world populated by bears, butterflies, giants, and fairies!
Approximately 1h without intermission
Cost: Orchestre de la Suisse Romande | rue Bovy-Lysberg 2 | 1204 Geneva
Bookings: +41228070000
Categories: Benjamin Britten, Edward Elgar, OSR, Orchestre de la Suisse Romande, Mission: orchestra!, Family series
Image credit: DR
Source: Event information supplied by Scènes Culturelles - Ville de Genève (official OpenAgenda) — OpenAgenda open-licence event data.
