theatre

Brother Tree Sound

At Oxford Playhouse, Oxford · 2 performances from Tue 27 Oct to Tue 27 Oct.

Vaughan Williams: String Quartet No. 1 in G minor (1908-09, rev. 1921) Holst: Phantasy Quartet on British Folksongs, op. 36 (1916) Brother Tree Sound (arr.): Folksongs from England, Ireland & Wales In the first of two concerts in three days exploring string quartet pieces by 20th British composers, we offer two key works by Holst and Vaughan Williams that follow up their composers’ respective breakthrough works in orchestral form that were inspired by folk music and were closely associated with the founding of the English Folk Dance Society in 1911. The programme is completed by Brother Tree S