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4 May
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4 May
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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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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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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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5 May
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Saturday, May 5, 2012 at 8:00pm
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 S. 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
Jonathan Dove : It sounded as if the Streets were running
Veljo Tormis : Lauliku lapsepoli (The Songster’s Childhood)
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