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5 Apr
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Thursday, April 5, 2012 at 7:30pm - 9pm Pioneering Chamber Ensemble, CORDIS, NYC Debut Concert Le Poisson Rouge NYC United States
Tickets: $15 in Advance, $20 at Door Known for its signature, eclectic sound, the critically acclaimed chamber ensemble, CORDIS, makes its New York City and Boston debuts April 5th and 6th, respectively. Led by world renowned composer/cimbalomist Richard Grimes, CORDIS is made up of the dynamic energy of electric cellist Jeremy Harman, pianist Brian O’Neill, percussionist Andrew Beall, and the primitive craft of customized, global instruments including the electric mbira, the melodica, the hammered-dulcimer-esque stringed instrument called the cimbalom (both traditional and electric), and the world’s longest playing music box cylinder-driven music box.
By fusing traditional and specially made ethnic instruments, CORDIS showcases a unique perspective on 21st century chamber music. “We offer an intriguing mix of instrumentation from vintage keyboards to one-of-a-kind indigenous percussion,” explains Grimes.
www.cordismusic.com
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5 Apr
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Thursday, April 5, 2012 at 7:30pm Pioneering Chamber Ensemble, CORDIS, NYC Debut Concert Le Corum Montpellier France
Tickets: $15 in Advance, $20 at Door Known for its signature, eclectic sound, the critically acclaimed chamber ensemble, CORDIS, makes its New York City and Boston debuts April 5th and 6th, respectively. Led by world renowned composer/cimbalomist Richard Grimes, CORDIS is made up of the dynamic energy of electric cellist Jeremy Harman, pianist Brian O’Neill, percussionist Andrew Beall, and the primitive craft of customized, global instruments including the electric mbira, the melodica, the hammered-dulcimer-esque stringed instrument called the cimbalom (both traditional and electric), and the world’s longest playing music box cylinder-driven music box.
http://www.lprnyc.com
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5 Apr
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Thursday, April 5, 2012 at 8.00 pm Solo IRCAM/Centre Pompidou-Grande salle-Paris
France
Tickets: 14€ Pascal Gallois bassoon
Paul Riveaux bassoon
Solistes de l'Ensemble intercontemporain
IRCAM Computer Music Design Thomas Goepfer, Robin Meier
Solo, one of Beckett's final monologues, was initially called Gone, the title of Jerôme Combier's work.
Inspired by Beckett, but also by the painter Giorgio Morandi, Jerôme Combier's aesthetic asserts the first words of Solo: birth was the death of him. From the beginning, a ghostly, multiple and profound deep matter, destroying reference points for pitch, distinctions between sounds and rubbing, made deeper by electronics, undermined by formal constraints. Before Gone, another experience of alternating breathing, of rubbing waves with Frederic Kahn's Unendlichkeit and recent creations by a new generation of composers supported since their surfacing by the Ensemble intercontemporain and IRCAM: Yan Robin, Dai Fujikura, Stefan Keller.
Frédéric Kahn : Unendlichkeit Yann Robin : Phigures Stefan Keller : Übersteiger Dai Fujikura : Calling Jérôme Combier : Gone
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5 Apr
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Thursday, April 5, 2012 at 7.30 pm Shostakovich’s Fifth & Prokofiev Piano Concerto 5 City Halls Glasgow Scotland
Tickets: £10.00-£23.00 Denis Kozhukhin piano
Ludovic Morlot conductor
BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra
36-year-old French conductor Ludovic
Morlot has been making quite a name for
himself in recent years, leading to his recent
appointment as Music Director of the Seattle
Symphony Orchestra. He begins a
programme of high emotion with Martinù's musical 'memorial' to the dead of the Czech village
of Lidice, massacred by the Nazis in 1942. Just as intense, in its own way, is Prokofiev's last
piano concerto - perhaps the most demanding of them all for both soloist and orchestra. And
finally, Shostakovich's best known symphony, a spectacular piece that still divides opinion as
to how much it shows its composer yielding to Stalinist pressure and how much it contains coded
hints of defiance against oppression.
Bohuslav Martinù : Memorial to Lidice Sergei Prokofiev : Piano Concerto No.5 Dmitri Shostakovich : Symphony No 5
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6 Apr
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Friday, April 6, 2012 at 7:00pm - 9:00pm The Boston Modern Orchestra Project (BMOP) Welcomes the Harvard-Radcliffe Collegium Musicum for a Bach-Inspired, Spring Concert Jordan Hall, Boston 30 Gainsborough Street United States 617-585-1260 http://www.newenglandconservatory.edu
Tickets: $28-$52, Students/Seniors $10 The Boston Modern Orchestra Project (BMOP), the nation’s premier orchestra dedicated exclusively to commissioning, performing, and recording new orchestral music, joins forces with Harvard’s premier mixed choir, The Harvard-Radcliffe Collegium Musicum, for an unforgettable concert at Jordan Hall, April 6, 2012. With conductor Gil Rose at the helm of BMOP and Andrew Clark leading the chorus, the program couples the Pulitzer-prize winning The Little Match Girl Passion (2008) by David Lang with Arvo Pärt’s Passio Domini Nostri Jesu Christi Secundum Joannem (1982).
Pre-Concert talk begins at 7pm. Performance starts at 8pm
www.bmop.org
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6 Apr
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Friday, April 6, 2012 at 7pm Pioneering Chamber Ensemble, CORDIS, Boston Debut Concert Museum of Fine Arts, Boston 465 Huntington Avenue United States 617-369-3306 http://www.mfa.org
Tickets: $12 Known for its signature, eclectic sound, the critically acclaimed chamber ensemble, CORDIS, makes its New York City and Boston debuts April 5th and 6th, respectively. Led by world renowned composer/cimbalomist Richard Grimes, CORDIS is made up of the dynamic energy of electric cellist Jeremy Harman, pianist Brian O’Neill, percussionist Andrew Beall, and the primitive craft of customized, global instruments including the electric mbira, the melodica, the hammered-dulcimer-esque stringed instrument called the cimbalom (both traditional and electric), and the world’s longest playing music box cylinder-driven music box.
For more information and tickets, visit http://www.mfa.org
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13 Apr
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Friday, April 13, 2012 at 7.30 pm The Sinking of the Titanic Town Hall, Birmingham Victoria Square B3 3DQ United Kingdom 0121 780 3333 http://www.thsh.co.uk/
Tickets: £15
On the centenary weekend of the Titanic disaster, we present a moving, evocative and timeless
experience. The Sinking of the Titanic, Gavin Bryars’ 20th century classic of experimental music,
is a 72-minute meditation inspired by reports that the Titanic’s string band continued to play the
hymn tune Autumn as the vessel went down. Themes from the hymn are woven into a timeless
soundscape that creates a beautiful sense of sound sinking through cavernous depths, of memory
and loss, and of history submerged in time. Turntablist Philip Jeck’s sample-based materials and
hazy archival film footage from artists Bill Morrison and Laurie Olinder overlay an extra layer of
ineffable nostalgia to this unique experience.
6.15pm Free pre-concert conversation with Gavin Bryars, writer and broadcaster Brian Morton,
and Andy Lound, Titanic expert and Curator of the Avery Historical Museum.
On the night of the concert there will be a small display of Titanic memorabilia in the Town Hall
foyer, courtesy of the Avery Historical Museum.
Ticket holders can benefit from free entry to 1912: A Titanic Odyssey, an exhibition being staged
by the Avery Historical Museum at Soho Foundry, Smethwick. Entry by advance booking only,
email alound@awtxglobal.com or call 0121 568 1667 for opening times and to book.
Gavin Bryars : The sinking of the Titanic
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14 Apr
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14 Apr
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Saturday, April 14, 2012 at 4:30pm & 7:30pm Buffalo Nation (Bison bison) World Premiere Indian Community School 10405 W. St. Martins Rd. Franklin, WI 53132 United States 414-271-0711 http://www.presentmusic.org/buffalo_nation_bison_bison.aspx laura@presentmusic.org
Tickets: $35-$7.50 Present Music ensemble
PIUS High School Choir
Norman Moses
Joel Kopischke
Alison Mary Forbes
Lisa Golda
Kurt Ollmann
Buffalo Nation (Bison bison) is a piece of theatrical music created by composer & Milwaukee native, Jerome Kitzke and librettist, Kathleen Masterson. Through music and text the work will illuminate the huge, varied, and largely unsung story of the American Bison from pre-history to present time, including the herd’s late 19th century decimation.
Jerome Kitzke : Buffalo Nation (Bison bison)
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15 Apr
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Sunday, April 15, 2012 at 7:15pm - 9:00pm LEGENDARY DRUMMER CHICO HAMILTON DROM, New York , 85 Ave A (b/w 5th & 6th St) in East Village United States (212) 777-1157 http://www.dromnyc.com/events/772/composers-concordance-records-release-party
Tickets: $12 in advance, $15 at door As evidenced on his latest recording Revelation (Joyous Shout!), 90 year-old drummer/leader Forestorn “Chico” Hamilton is still creating vivid, positive, uplifting, and relevant music. Saluted by the Kennedy Center as a "Living Jazz Legend", and appointed to the President’s Council on the Arts, this NEA Jazz Master is considered one of the most important living jazz artists and composers.
DROM presents EUPHORIC – Celebrating the Life & Music of Chico Hamilton for three Sunday night performances this Spring (March – May) featuring Chico and his long-time touring band featuring Nick Demopoulos (guitar), Paul Ramsey (bass), Evan Schwam (flute + reeds), Mayu Saeki (flute), and Jeremy Carlstedt (drums + percussion) as well as special featured guests TBA. Program includes mostly Chico originals off of Revelation ranging from the samba-ish gem “Footprints in the Sand” to the ballad “Every Time I Smile.”
www.dromnyc.com
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Tuesday, April 17, 2012 at 7.30 pm Jakob Lenz, An ENO/Hampstead Theatre co-production Hampstead Theatre Hampstead Theatre Eton Avenue Swiss Cottage NW3 3EU United Kingdom 020 7722 9301 http://www.hampsteadtheatre.com/ mailto:boxoffice@hampsteadtheatre.com
Tickets: £45 ENO
Where does genius end and madness begin? How does it feel to cross the borderline between
imagination and insanity?
To celebrate the 60th birthday of leading German composer Wolfgang Rihm, ENO presents the first
ever English-language production of his most widely performed opera, a starkly Expressionist sonic
‘psychogram’ charting the mental disintegration of the real-life Sturm und Drang poet Jakob Lenz.
Staged by the dynamic young British director Sam Brown (winner of the 2011 European Opera-
Directing Prize) and starring the extraordinary ‘chameleon’ actor/singer Andrew Shore – whose tour
de force performance as Birtwistle’s Mr Punch launched ENO’s award-winning collaboration with the
Young Vic – this pioneering co-production with the Hampstead Theatre inaugurates a brand-new
relationship between ENO and North London’s long-established home of new writing.
All performances:
Tue 17 Apr 2012 19:30
Thu 19 Apr 2012 19:30
Sat 21 Apr 2012 19:30
Tue 24 Apr 2012 19:30
Thu 26 Apr 2012 19:30
Fri 27 Apr 2012 19:30
Wolfgang Rihm : Jakob Lenz
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18 Apr
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19 Apr
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Thursday, April 19, 2012 at 7.30 pm The Lark Ascending & Vaughan Williams Symphonies City Halls Glasgow Scotland
Tickets: £10.00-£23.00 Jennifer Pike violin
Andrew Manze conductor
BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra
Continuing his exploration of Vaughan
Williams' symphonies, Andrew Manze
brings the BBC SSO's Thursday Night Series to an inspiring close with this extraordinary
programme that places arguably the two greatest symphonies together. A starker contrast could
hardly be imagined between the warmly sunlit, mystical lyricism of the Fifth and its predecessor,
the angular, turbulent, disturbing Fourth. Between them, all is pastoral balm, with the lark's
exquisite song rising higher and higher over a peaceful English landscape. Outstanding young
violinist Jennifer Pike is the voice of the songbird, and she begins the concert alone, with some
of the greatest violin music by Vaughan Williams's musical love, JS Bach.
J.S Bach : Sonata for unaccompanied violin Vaughan Williams : Symphony No 4 Vaughan Williams : The Lark Ascending Vaughan Williams : Symphony No 5
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20 Apr
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Friday, April 20, 2012 at 7.30 pm Mahler's Fourth Symphony with the BBC National Orchestra of Wales, the BBC National Chorus of Wales St David's Hall Cardiff United Kingdom
Tickets: £10-£26 Conductor Thierry Fischer
Soprano Lisa Milne
BBC National Chorus of Wales
Mahler's Fourth Symphony is one of his most
relaxed works - classical, song-like and
culminates
in a representation of a child's view of
heaven. An early commentator remarked,
"Mahler's
Symphony is a work for children and those who will become children." Simon Holt's The Yellow
Wallpaper is a dramatic piece for soprano and orchestra (with sopranos placed within the
orchestra!). It sets to music the story of obsession caused by living in a room with yellow
wallpaper by the early feminist writer Charlotte Perkins Gillman.
Please note - Schumann's Requiem for Mignon will no longer be performed in this concert.
Simon Holt : The Yellow Wallpaper Gustav Mahler : Symphony No 4
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21 Apr
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21 Apr
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Saturday, April 21, 2012 at 7.30pm Dreams and Dances Verbrugghen Hall, Sydney Conservatorium of Music Macquarie Street Sydney Australia (02) 8256 2222 or 1300 797 118 http://www.cityrecitalhall.com info@halcyon.org.au
Tickets: $35/$25 Vox, Sydney Philharmonia Choirs
Elizabeth Scott – Musical Director
Alison Morgan – Soprano
Jenny Duck-Chong – Mezzo Soprano
Andrei Laptev – Tenor
Clive Birch – Bass
Claire Edwardes – Guest Artist/ Percussion
What happens when Vox, Sydney’s sassiest and smartest group of young choristers meets Halcyon, acclaimed champions of new music for voice? The result is a musical feast of recently composed works from around the world, including some beautiful gems by our own Australian composers. From the dreamy, surreal sounds of Saariaho's Nuit, Adieux to the dancing rhythms of Ross Edwards Mantras and Alleluyas, this adventurous program features Vox at their most fearless, with Halcyon's quartet of soloists, percussionist Claire Edwardes and Vox's Musical Director Elizabeth Scott.
Music by Kaija Saariaho, Arvo Part, Ross Edwards, Katy Abbott, Dan Walker, Elliott Gyger, Per Norgard, Kerry Andrew and Jorge Vidales.
Jorge Vidales : Four Basho Haiku daniel walker : Litany of Earth and Sky Ross Edwards : Mantras and Alleluyas katy abbott : Aspects of Dreaming Kerry Andrew : 2 songs from Dusksongs Per Norgard : The gentle, the penetrating from I Ching Kaija Saariaho : Nuits, adieux Arvo Part : Bogoroditse dievo
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21 Apr
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Saturday, April 21, 2012 at 7.30 pm Reflections on Debussy Bridgewater Hall, Manchester Lower Mosley Road United Kingdom 44 (0) 161 907 9000 http://www.halle.co.uk/publishedSite/aidsdayconcert.asp box@bridgewater-hall.co.uk
Tickets: £10.00 - £33.50 Juanjo Mena conductor
Noriko Ogawa piano
Debussy's La mer is one of the most gorgeous seascapes ever painted by an orchestra. As Juanjo Mena
approaches the finale of our anniversary tribute to Debussy, we celebrate with a whole concert devoted to the
musical life aquatic.
Antonin Dvorak re-tells a sinister Czech fairytale in irresistibly tuneful style. Benjamin Britten’s foam-lashed musical
portrait of the North Sea captures the human drama of a Suffolk fishing community. And the exquisite riverrun by
the Japanese master Toru Takemitsu is a dream-like piano concerto, inspired by both James Joyce and Debussy
himself, and played tonight by the wonderful Noriko Ogawa.
Post-concert 'le chat noir': nostalgic popular melodies from Japan and chansons by Toru Takemitsu performed by
soprano, Yumiko Samejima and Noriko Ogawa.
Benjamin Britten : Four Sea Interludes Antonin Dvorak : Water Sprites Toru Takemitsu : riverrun Claude Debussy : La Mer
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21 Apr
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21 Apr
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Saturday, April 21, 2012 at 7:30pm - 9pm Pianist Anthony de Mare Celebrates Stephen Sondheim in LIAISONS: Re-Imagining Sondheim from the Piano Symphony Space 2537 Broadway, New York, NY United States 212-864-5400 http://www.symphonyspace.org info@symphonyspace.org
Tickets: $45 General, $15 Under 30 After nearly a year of previews throughout the U.S. and Canada, LIAISONS: Re-Imagining Sondheim from the Piano featuring internationally renowned contemporary pianist Anthony de Mare comes to New York City’s Symphony Space for one night only (4/21). Based on the music of the legendary composer/lyricist Stephen Sondheim, LIAISONS is an intrepid program of 17 new, solo piano works by 17 of the world’s foremost contemporary composers - this marks the first time that Sondheim songs have ever been re-imagined for solo piano. The evening will also include an intimate, on-stage discussion with Stephen Sondheim led by Mark Eden Horowitz, the critically acclaimed author of Sondheim on Music, as well as brief composer panels moderated by Symphony Space’s Artistic Director Laura Kaminsky.
Commissioned purely for this landmark project, composers from the realms of classical, jazz, film, pop, musical theater, opera and avant-garde music have come together to pay homage to Sondheim, whose music has dominated American musical theater for the past four decades. “LIAISONS demonstrates just how universal and timeless Sondheim’s music truly is,” explains de Mare. “The program’s collection of composers, ranging from jazz pianist Fred Hersch and Academy- and Grammy- award-winning composer David Shire to post-classical mavericks Steve Reich and Mason Bates and opera composer Jake Heggie, reveals Sondheim’s amazing influence and ability to transcend the traditional boundaries of musical theater.”
www.anthonydemare.com
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22 Apr
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Wednesday, April 25, 2012 at 7:30pm Spotlight on Elena Firsova The Forge 3-7 Delancey Street, London, NW1 7NL United Kingdom http://www.forgevenue.org/whats-on/ contact@forgevenue.org
Tickets: £10/8 online, £12/10 on the door
Marsyas Trio
Helen Vidovich - flute
Val Welbanks - cello
Fei Ren - piano
Ligeti Quartet
Mandhira de Saram - violin
Patrick Dawkins - violin
Richard Jones - viola
Val Welbanks - cello
The Marsyas Trio will be presenting a programme of chamber works by Russian-born composer Elena Firsova. The featured work is a world premiere of the new composition commissioned by the Marsyas Trio, A Triple Portrait, which has generously been funded by the PRS for Music Foundation. The Marsyas Trio is joined by the Ligeti Quartet in a varied programme of solo, duo and larger chamber ensemble works. Also featured is the UK premiere of Tender is the Sorrow and a short concert talk by Elena. This concert is in celebration of Elena Firsova’s twenty-year contribution to new music in the UK.
Elena Firsova : A Triple Portrait (Marsyas Trio) Elena Firsova : The Night Demons, Op. 62 (1993) (Cello & Piano) Elena Firsova : Tender is the Sorrow, Op. 130 (2011) (Flute, String Trio & Piano) (UK premiere) Elena Firsova : Meditation in the Japanese Garden, Op. 54 (1992) (Marsyas Trio) Elena Firsova : Spring Sonata, Op. 27 (1982) (Flute & Piano) Elena Firsova : String Quartet No. 8 ‘The Stone Guest’ (1995) (Ligeti Quartet) Elena Firsova : Hymn to Spring, Op. 64 (1993) (Solo Piano)
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26 Apr
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Thursday, April 26, 2012 at 7.30 pm The Hallé Bridgewater Hall, Manchester Lower Mosley Road United Kingdom 44 (0) 161 907 9000 http://www.halle.co.uk/publishedSite/aidsdayconcert.asp box@bridgewater-hall.co.uk
Tickets: £9.50 - £35.00 Markus Stenz conductor
Alban Gerhardt cello
Markus Stenz conducts Chabrier’s sensuous Espana, a delightful orchestral vignette replete with Spanish dance
rhythms and vibrant local colour. The Hallé welcomes back Alban Gerhardt – one of the world’s leading cellists –
for Dutilleux’s equally luminous Tout un monde lontain. Inspired by the symbolist poetry of Baudelaire, it is an
astonishing work that truly takes us to ‘A whole remote world’. Alban Gerhardt then reappears in the guise of Don
Quixote for Richard Strauss’s charming take on Cervantes’s classic novel. Commotion ensues as ‘the knight of the
woeful countenance’ tilts his lance at windmills, assails a flock of sheep and generally gets it wrong.
Pre-concert event at 6:30pm (free to concert ticket holders): Michael Kennedy, celebrated for his studies of both
Richard Strauss and Edward Elgar talks about Don Quixote and previews The Apostles, which will be performed on
Saturday 5 May.
Emmanuel Chabrier : Rhapsody: Espana Henri Dutilleux : Tout un monde lontain – Concerto for cello and orchestra Richard Strauss : Don Quixote
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26 Apr
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Thursday, April 26, 2012 at 7.30pm The Importance of Being Earnest Barbican Hall, London Barbican, Silk Street, London EC2 United Kingdom 020 7638 8891 http://www.barbican.org.uk/eticketing
Tickets: £10/ £17.50/ £25 Conductor: Thomas Adès
Cast
Barbara Hannigan: Cecily Cardew
Peter Tantsits: John Worthing
Joshua Bloom: Algernon Moncrieff
Katalin Karolyi: Gwendolen Fairfax
Hilary Summers: Miss Prism
Stephen Richardson: Lady Bracknell
Opera in Three Acts (Concert Performance)
by Gerald Barry
Libretto by the composer based on the text by Oscar Wilde
‘I’ve now realised for the first time in my life the vital importance of being Earnest’
Oscar Wilde’s most enduringly popular play – The Importance of Being Earnest – has long been a staple of theatre and screen; now, a brilliant new operatic version gives voice to Lady Bracknell’s "A hand-bag?!"
Ernest Worthing (aka John) wants to marry Gwendolen. Algernon (aka Ernest) has an imaginary friend called Bunbury. Lady Bracknell only wants the best for her daughter Gwendolen and she just wants to marry someone with the name Ernest.
Thomas Adès conducts Birmingham Contemporary Music Group and a stellar cast of singers in the European premiere performances of Gerald Barry’s new opera in Birmingham and London.
Irish composer Gerald Barry has enjoyed a long and successful association with BCMG, including acclaimed performances of his opera The Triumph of Beauty and Deceit with Thomas Adès in Birmingham, London, Paris and New York, and three commissions through the Group’s Sound Investment scheme.
‘My favourite living composer finds the hilarious musical equivalent for Oscar Wilde’s perfect absurdist paradoxes in his riotously outrageous and funny new opera.’
Thomas Adès
'The opera is hysterically funny. The score is highly sophisticated and indescribably zany… The world now has something rare: a new genuinely comic opera…’
Los Angeles Times
Gerard Barry : The Importance of Being Earnest
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28 Apr
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Saturday, April 28, 2012 at 7.00pm The Importance of Being Earnest Symphony Hall, Birmingham Broad Street,
Birmingham,
West Midlands,
B1 2EA
United Kingdom 0121 200 2000 symphonyhall@necgroup.co.uk http://boxoffice.necgroup.co.uk/iccsym.asp
Tickets: £20 Conductor: Thomas Adès
Cast
Barbara Hannigan: Cecily Cardew
Peter Tantsits: John Worthing
Joshua Bloom: Algernon Moncrieff
Katalin Karolyi: Gwendolen Fairfax
Hilary Summers: Miss Prism
Stephen Richardson: Lady Bracknell
Opera in Three Acts (Concert Performance)
by Gerald Barry
Libretto by the composer based on the text by Oscar Wilde
‘I’ve now realised for the first time in my life the vital importance of being Earnest’
Oscar Wilde’s most enduringly popular play – The Importance of Being Earnest – has long been a staple of theatre and screen; now, a brilliant new operatic version gives voice to Lady Bracknell’s "A hand-bag?!"
Ernest Worthing (aka John) wants to marry Gwendolen. Algernon (aka Ernest) has an imaginary friend called Bunbury. Lady Bracknell only wants the best for her daughter Gwendolen and she just wants to marry someone with the name Ernest.
Thomas Adès conducts Birmingham Contemporary Music Group and a stellar cast of singers in the European premiere performances of Gerald Barry’s new opera in Birmingham and London.
Irish composer Gerald Barry has enjoyed a long and successful association with BCMG, including acclaimed performances of his opera The Triumph of Beauty and Deceit with Thomas Adès in Birmingham, London, Paris and New York, and three commissions through the Group’s Sound Investment scheme.
‘My favourite living composer finds the hilarious musical equivalent for Oscar Wilde’s perfect absurdist paradoxes in his riotously outrageous and funny new opera.’
Thomas Adès
'The opera is hysterically funny. The score is highly sophisticated and indescribably zany… The world now has something rare: a new genuinely comic opera…’
Los Angeles Times
The Birmingham performance of The Importance of Being Earnest is included in the City of Birmingham Symphony Orchestra’s 2011/12 Season and standard CBSO discounts apply. See www.cbso.co.uk for further details, or enquire when booking.
Gerald Barry : The Importance of Being Earnest
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28 Apr
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Saturday, April 28, 2012 at 7.00 pm The Importance of Being Earnest Symphony Hall, Birmingham Broad Street,
Birmingham,
West Midlands,
B1 2EA
United Kingdom 0121 200 2000 symphonyhall@necgroup.co.uk http://boxoffice.necgroup.co.uk/iccsym.asp
Tickets: £20 Birmingham Contemporary Music Group
Thomas Adès conductor
Barbara Hannigan Cecily Cardew
Peter Tantsits John Worthing
Joshua Bloom Algernon Moncrieff
Katalin Karolyi Gwendolen Fairfax
Hilary Summers Miss Prism
Alan Ewing Lady Bracknell
Benjamin Bevan Lane / Merriman
“A Handbag?!” Oscar Wilde’s The Importance of Being Earnest is surely the single wittiest play
in the English language. Thomas Adès conducts Birmingham’s world-renowned BCMG and a
stellar cast in this definitive concert performance of Irish composer Gerald Barry’s brilliant new
opera.
Gerald Barry : The Importance of Being Earnest
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28 Apr
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28 Apr
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28 Apr
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Saturday, April 28, 2012 at 7.30 pm Hear and Now: Composer Focus: Richard Ayres City Halls Glasgow Scotland
Tickets: Free Greg Lawson violin*
Fraser Fifield pipes*
Catriona Mckay harp*
Saar Berger horn**
Ilan Volkov conductor
BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra
Welcome to the world of Richard Ayres. Described as "zany and anarchic", his is an energetic,
layered, and often wildly humorous musical universe. This concert features one of his infamous
NONcertos where the soloist is an "outcast" often called upon to perform impossible musical
feats. Saar Berger, horn player with the Ensemble Modern, should rise (or fall) to the
challenge beautifully.
The other composers in the concert are no less interesting. Serbian-German composer Marko
Nikodijevic draws upon on the diverse worlds of the drug-fuelled techno music scene and
Serbian folk songs for GHB /tanzaggregat, while English minimalist Laurence Crane has been
dubbed "irresistibly droll" by Gramophone magazine.
This concert is also the closing event of the Royal Conservatoire of Scotland's PLUG festival
Richard Ayres : No.9 MacGOWAN Richard Ayres : No.36 (2002) NONcerto for horn Marko Nikodijevic : GHB/tanzaggregat Laurence Crane : West Sussex Folk Material
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29 Apr
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Sunday, April 29, 2012 at 7.30 pm London Symphony Orchestra / Peter Barbican Hall, London Barbican, Silk Street, London EC2 United Kingdom 020 7638 8891 http://www.barbican.org.uk/eticketing
Tickets: £10 / 15 / 19.50 / 27 / 35 Peter Eotvos conductor
Christian Tetzlaff violin
Ladies of the London Symphony Chorus
London Symphony Orchestra
Inspired by the Nocturnes of Impressionist painter James
Whistler, Debussy wrote that his Three Nocturnes should be
understood in terms of ‘all the various impressions and the
special effects of light that the word suggests’.
Szymanowski’s Violin Concerto No 1 draws inspiration from
the Polish poem, Noc Majowa (Night Gathering) which reads:
‘And now we stand by the lake in crimson blossom / in
flowing tears of joy, with rapture and fear’. Novelist and
painter Henry Miller described listening to Scrabin’s
Symphony No 4 as ‘like a bath of ice, cocaine and rainbows
…Like an étude gliding off a glacier’.
Claude Debussy : Three Nocturnes Karol Szymanowski : Violin Concerto No 1 Alexander Scriabin : Symphony No 4 (‘Poem of Ecstasy’)
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29 Apr
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Sunday, April 29, 2012 at 4:00pm Melodia Women's Choir presents COLORS OF THE SUN Church of the Holy Apostles 296 Ninth Avenue, NYC, New York United States +1 800-838-3006 http://www.melodiawomenschoir.org/ info@horsedragon-nyc.com
Tickets: $20/advance, $25/door ($15/advance students and seniors) Performers include Melodia Women’s Choir, Cynthia Powell, Artistic Director; Taisiya Pushkar (piano); Nathalie Joachim (flute/piccolo); and Stephanie Griffin (viola).
Melodia Women's Choir of New York City, conducted by Artistic Director Cynthia Powell, concludes its ninth season of bringing rarely heard music for women’s voices to choral audiences with “Colors of the Sun,” a spirited concert bursting with the joy and vitality of summer days and featuring Many-Colored Brooms, a work by Johannes Somary (1925-2011). This rarely heard, evocative composition for women’s voices, flute/piccolo, viola, and piano takes its name from the opening line of Emily Dickinson’s poem “She sweeps with many-colored Brooms,” and is inspired by the powerful imagery, feminist spirit, and playful tone of Dickinson’s work.
Also featuring the poetry of Emily Dickinson is It sounded as if the Streets were running, a composition by the contemporary British choral and opera composer Jonathan Dove that captures the swelling energy of a summer storm. Additional program works include O Virtus Sapientiae, a radiant and meditative piece by Seattle-based conductor and composer Karen P. Thomas on a text by Hildegard von Bingen, the soaring Magnificat by R. Vaughan Williams, the beautiful Six Songs for Female Chorus by Sergei Rachmaninoff, and beginning and ending compositions, from the celebrated and prolific Estonian composer Veljo Tormis, Suveöö (Summer Night) and Lauliku lapsepoli (The Songster’s Childhood).
Veljo Tormis : Suveöö (Summer Night) Johannes Somary : Many-Colored Brooms Vaughan Williams : Magnificat Sergei Rachmaninov : Six Songs for Female Chorus Karen P. Thomas : O Virtus Sapientiae
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Thursday, May 3, 2012 at 7:30pm Schubert, Bach, Dorman, Milone and Sarasate Wigmore Hall, London 36 Wigmore St, London W1 United Kingdom 02079352141 http://www.wigmore-hall.org.uk
Tickets: £15 £20 £25 £30 Gil Shaham
violin
Akira Eguchi
piano
A distinguished Israeli-American violinist and Japanese- American pianist, Gil Shaham and Akira Eguchi offer an unusual programme here, with a Sarasate show-piece, a sonata by young Israeli composer Avner Dorman, dedicated to Gil Shaham, and the world première of a new work by British violinist/composer Julian Milone.
Franz Schubert : Violin sonata (Sonatina) in A minor D385 J.S. Bach : Sonata No. 3 in C for solo violin BWV1005 Avner Dorman : Sonate für Violine und Klavier No. 3 Julian Milone : In the country of lost things… Pablo de Sarasate : Carmen Fantasy Op. 25
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3 May
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Thursday, May 3, 2012 at 7:30pm CBSO The Year 1912: Berg and Ravel Symphony Hall, Birmingham Broad Street,
Birmingham,
West Midlands,
B1 2EA
United Kingdom 0121 200 2000 symphonyhall@necgroup.co.uk http://boxoffice.necgroup.co.uk/iccsym.asp
Tickets: £10 - £39.50 City of Birmingham Symphony Orchestra
Oliver Knussen conductor
Claire Booth soprano
CBSO Youth Chorus
‘One of Britain’s greatest living artists,’ says The Guardian of Oliver Knussen, ‘he has added beauty to the world.’ Now, in his 60th birthday year, we’re delighted to welcome him back to Birmingham for a concert that tingles with colour. Ravel’s sumptuous homage to Schubert and Berg’s Klimt-like Altenberg-Lieder (both written in 1912), together with Debussy’s gorgeous Nocturnes, provide a stunning setting for Knussen’s own extraordinary Whitman Settings, sung by the magnificent Claire Booth. Join us in celebrating a true living legend.
Maurice Ravel : Valses nobles et sentimentales Oliver Knussen : Whitman Settings Alban Berg : Altenberg-Lieder Claude Debussy : Nocturnes
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4 May
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Friday, May 4, 2012 at 7:30PM London Sinfonietta at Sounds New Augustine Hall Canterbury United Kingdom
London Sinfonietta
Conductor to be confirmed
London Sinfonietta perform an all-British programme, including Peter Maxwell Davies' 1977 classic A Mirror of Whitening Light , the title of which refers to both the alchemical purification process of turning a base metal into gold, and the point where the Atlantic and North seas meet, which the composer considers to be a huge alchemical crucible.
The programme will also include George Benjamin's At First Light , commissioned and premiered by the London Sinfonietta in 1982. The work was inspired by Turner's oil painting, Norham Castle, Sunrise which depicts the 12th century castle silhouetted against a huge, golden sun.
Frame/Refrain by Edmund Finnis, a London Sinfonietta Writing the Future 2011 composer, and Momentum by Benjamin Oliver, will also feature.
Oliver Knussen : Coursing George Benjamin : At First Light Edmund Finnis : At First Light Simon Bainbridge : Concertante in moto perpetuo Benjamin Oliver : Momentum Peter Maxwell Davies : Mirrror of Whitening Light
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Friday, May 4, 2012 at 4 - 13 May 2012 / 18:00, 17:30, 16:00 Einstein on the Beach Barbican Hall, London Barbican, Silk Street, London EC2 United Kingdom 020 7638 8891 http://www.barbican.org.uk/eticketing
Tickets: £35 - 125
Widely credited as one of the greatest artistic achievements of the 20th century, this rarely performed work launched its director Robert Wilson and composer Philip Glass to international success when it was first produced at the Metropolitan Opera in 1976.
It is still recognised as one of their greatest masterpieces. Now, nearly four decades after it was first performed and twenty years since its last production, Einstein on the Beach will be reconstructed bringing this ground-breaking work to new audiences and an entirely new generation.
Einstein on the Beach breaks all of the rules of conventional opera. Instead of a traditional orchestral arrangement, Glass chose to compose the work for the synthesisers, woodwinds and voices of the Philip Glass Ensemble. Non-narrative in form, the work uses a series of powerful recurrent images as its main storytelling device shown in juxtaposition with abstract dance sequences created by American choreographer Lucinda Childs. It is structured in four interconnected acts and divided by a series of short scenes or “knee plays”. Taking place over five hours, there is no intermission, however the audience is invited to enter and exit at liberty during the performance
Philip Glass : Einstein on the Beach
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4 May
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4 May
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Friday, May 4, 2012 at 7pm BBC National Orchestra of Wales at Vale of Glamorgan Festival BBC Hoddinott Hall Cardiff Wales
Tickets: £12 Conductor Clark Rundell
Violin Chloë Hanslip
Although geographically worlds apart Chen, Glass and Nørgård have all lived and worked in Paris. Both Glass and Nørgård studied in the city with Nadia Boulanger and are linked in their fascination with hypnotic, simple and yet sophisticated music which endlessly rotates and transforms in mesmerising patterns. Written shortly after his move from China to France, Chen's Yuan displays his distinctive calling card of Eastern and Western sounds with a particular nod in the direction of Messiaen and Debussy.
Per Nørgård : Symphony No 22 Qigang Chen : Yuan Philip Glass : Violin Concerto
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