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Sunday, March 8, 2015 at 7.30pm Unsuk Chin: Alice in Wonderland Barbican Hall, London Barbican, Silk Street, London EC2 United Kingdom 020 7638 8891 http://www.barbican.org.uk/eticketing
BBC Symphony Orchestra
Baldur Brönnimann conductor
Netia Jones director / designer and video artist
with illustrations from Ralph Steadman
Lewis Carroll’s beloved, dreamlike stories are startlingly re-imagined in this UK premiere production of Unsuk Chin’s operatic adaptation of Alice in Wonderland.
A glittering and crazed work by Chin and librettist David Henry Hwang, the riotous exhilaration and jet-black humour of the score meet their match tonight in Netia Jones’s tour de force production.
Celebrated for her innovative multimedia creations, including Britten’s Curlew River at St Giles Cripplegate in 2013, director/designer/video artist Jones realises her vision of the composer’s surreal take on Carroll by combining the darkly imaginative illustrations of gonzo-artist Ralph Steadman with live action, interactive animated projections, eye-popping costumes and choreography.
Please note that this production is not suitable for under-12s.
Unsuk Chin : Alice in Wonderland
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Wednesday, March 18, 2015 at 8pm New York Philharmonic CONTACT! concert Milton Court - Guildhall School of Music & Drama Milton Court, Guildhall School of Music & Drama, EC2Y 9BH United Kingdom 020 7638 8891 http://www.gsmd.ac.uk/miltoncourt
CONTACT! – the New York Philharmonic’s dynamic contemporary music programme – brings new scores from New York to the Barbican.
When Alan Gilbert became music director of the New York Philharmonic, CONTACT! was one of his first innovations – connecting the Philharmonic directly to the most imaginative new voices in one of the world’s most creative cities. Today CONTACT! comes to London, with a programme that includes Esa-Pekka Salonen’s Homunculus.
“Gilbert has also shown more interest in modern music than any [New York] Philharmonic director since Boulez” says Alex Ross, and with performances in alternative venues ranging from NoHo’s SubCulture to the Museum of Modern Art, collaborators including Yefim Bronfman, Matthias Pintscher and Esa-Pekka Salonen, and programmes dominated by premieres, CONTACT! has given this famous orchestra a new energy. Today’s programme is a celebration of virtuosity – and a chance for London audiences to experience that electricity at first hand, as the NYPO’s leading players engage with works by some of the world’s most exciting creators of new music.
Musicians from the New York Philharmonic
Daniel Bjarnason : Five possibilities Timothy Andres : Early to Rise Missy Mazzoli : Dissolve my heart Esa-Pekka Salonen : Homunculus Shulamit Ran : Mirage
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Saturday, March 21, 2015 at Various times, all day Total Immersion: Boulez at 90 Barbican Hall, London Barbican, Silk Street, London EC2 United Kingdom 020 7638 8891 http://www.barbican.org.uk/eticketing
Pierre Boulez is one of the most important voices in post-war European culture. As a composer he has defined the sound of 20th and 21st century music; as conductor he has re-defined the possibilities of Mahler, Wagner and more; as cultural thinker he has shaken up the establishment; and as a teacher he has inspired the next generation. In 2015 we celebrate his 90th year with a BBC Symphony Orchestra Total Immersion day and concerts by the London Symphony Orchestra and the pioneering Ensemble Intercontemporain, founded by Boulez himself in 1976.
https://www.barbican.org.uk/classical1415/about-the-season/boulez-at-90
Pierre Boulez : Various
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