![]() ![]() You may never think about music in the same way once you’ve been exposed to the Ukes’ depraved musicology. Sometimes a foolish song can touch an audience more than high art sometimes music which takes itself too seriously is revealed to be hilarious. Both the beauty and vacuity of popular and highbrow music are highlighted, the pompous and the trivial, the moving and the amusing. This performance will run approximately 110 minutes, with a 20-minute intermission. Using instruments small and large, in high and low registers, whether playing intricate melodies, simple tunes, or complex chords, and sitting in chamber group format dressed in formal evening wear, the Orchestra uses the limitations of the instrument to create a musical freedom as it reveals unsuspected musical insights. UKULELE ORCHESTRA OF GREAT BRITAIN Jonty Bankes Peter Brooke Turner Laura Currie Leisa Rea Ben Rouse Dave Suich Ewan Wardrop Musical Director: George Hinchliffe Management: Jodi Cartwright Sound: Doug Beveridge Tonight’s program will be announced from the stage. The concert ukulele is around 23 inches (58 cm), the twinning ukulele is 26 inches (64 cm), and the Baritone ukulele is 29 inches (75 cm). ![]() ![]() Going from Tchaikovsky to Nirvana via Otis Redding and Spaghetti Western soundtracks, the Orchestra takes us on “a world tour with only hand luggage” and gives the listener “One Plucking Thing After Another”. Audiences have a good time with the Ukulele Orchestra. Only an astonishing revelation of the rich palette of orchestration afforded by ukuleles and singing (and a bit of whistling). There are no drums, pianos, backing tracks or banjos, no pitch shifters or electronic trickery. Rocky Mountain Ukulele Orchestra is a 501(c)3 non-profit dedicated to arranging a diverse rehearsed music repertoire for solo and ensemble performance in an. The Ukulele Orchestra of Great Britain is a group of all-singing, all-strumming Ukulele players, using instruments bought with loose change, which believes that all genres of music are available for reinterpretation, as long as they are played on the Ukulele.Ī concert by the Ukulele Orchestra is a funny, virtuosic, twanging, awesome, foot-stomping obituary of rock-n-roll and melodious light entertainment featuring only the “bonsai guitar” and a menagerie of voices in a collision of post-punk performance and toe-tapping oldies. ![]()
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