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6 Apr
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Saturday, May 6, 2017 at 7pm
BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra & The Necks
City Halls
Glasgow
Scotland
Lori Goldston cello
Yarn/Wire
The Necks:
Chris Abrahams piano
Tony Buck drums
Lloyd Swanton bass
BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra
Ilan Volkov conductor
Players from the BBC SSO join with Yarn/Wire to perform Mâche’s award winning Kassandra from 1977, typical of the composer’s investigations with sounds in nature, zoomusicology and human speech patterns. Linda Catlin Smith’s Wilderness is an exploration of orchestral colour, with the possibilities of the orchestra itself a kind of Wilderness, and its followed by a new orchestral work by Lori Goldston. After the interval, legendary Australian trio The Necks improvise with Ilan Volkov and the BBC SSO, with a typical exploration into the zones between improvisation, post-rock, jazz, ambient, and orchestral music.
François-Bernard Mâche : Kassandra
Linda Catlin Smith : Wilderness
Lori Goldston : New Work for cello and orchestra
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6 Apr
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Saturday, May 6, 2017 at Begins at 12.00
BBC Total Immersion Day: Edgard Varèse
Barbican Hall, London
Barbican, Silk Street, London EC2
United Kingdom
020 7638 8891
http://www.barbican.org.uk/eticketing
An introduction to the life and music of French-American composer Edgard Varese.
Edgard Varèse, even a half century after his death, remains a controversial yet cult figure. Born in France in 1883, he moved to Italy to study and knew all the major artistic figures of his day. He emigrated to the US in 1915 and, apart from a five-year stint in Paris, remained there until his death in 1965.
His unique voice and rigorous, though eclectic aesthetic, influenced countless younger composers even though his entire output can be performed in about three hours. So this Total Immersion is truly total - embracing every note he ever composed, including screenings of specially recorded BBC Symphony Orchestra films of Etude pour Espace and Ecuatorial.
Other events in the Total Immersion Day:
11am and 6.45pm Reconstruction of Varèse’s piece for tape Poéme électronique, Foyers
12pm Talk, Fountain Room
2pm Concert, Milton Court
4.30pm Film, Cinema 2
6.15pm Performance, Foyers
7pm Concert, Hall
Edgard Varèse : Various
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6 Apr
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Saturday, May 6, 2017 at 7.30pm
AVANT-CELLO
Kings Place
90 York Way, London, N1 9AG
United Kingdom
020 7520 1440
http://www.kingsplace.co.uk/
info@kingsplace.co.uk
Tim Gill cello
Fali Pavri piano
Sound Intermedia sound projection
With its sonorous bass tones and piercing high register, the cello has fascinated composers for generations. As part of the Cello Unwrapped series at Kings Place, our Principal Cellist Tim Gill presents a survey of the styles and sounds of contemporary cello repertoire through the 20th and 21st centuries. From the mesmeric spiritualism of Messiaen and Pärt, through the concise pointillism of Webern, to the athletic virtuosity of Xenakis’ Kottos – “rough, harsh and full of noise” – this programme probes the cello’s many different characters, and the voices it has found in the contemporary music landscape.
Arvo Part : Fratres
Jonathan Harvey : Ricercare una melodia
Iannis Xenakis : Kottos
Thomas Ades : Les eaux (mvt 1 from Lieux retrouvés)
Anna Clyne : Paint Box
Harrison Birtwistle : Wie Eine Fuga
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7 Apr
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Sunday, May 7, 2017 at 7.30pm
Tectonics Closing Concert
City Halls
Glasgow
Scotland
Shiori Usui voice
Owen Green electronics
Tim Hodgkinson reeds, lap steel guitar, electronics
Parkinson Saunders voices, samples
Ken Hyder
Gianni Trovalusci flute
Roscoe Mitchell saxophones
BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra
Ilan Volkov conductor
Edinburgh-based composer Shiori Usui’s from scratch is a revised version of her 2007 work, based on her experience of eczema and is scored for orchestra, improvised voice/percussion and live-electronics. Following this Tim Hodgkinson, Shelley Hirsch and Paul May perform as a trio.
After the move to the Grand Hall, Lawrence Dunn’s Ambling, waking is about the everyday struggle to emerge from sleep, but also about ‘waking’, as in mourning. Linda Catlin Smith’s Adagietto pays homage to the slow movements of classical and Baroque orchestral music, their pace “allowing for more complex harmony to be heard”. James Saunders’ World Premiere is typical of his open-form compositions that explore group behaviours and decision making, in this case using memory and mental effort to determine the resulting orchestral sound. Finally, Roscoe Mitchell’s Conversations for soloists and orchestra are based upon transcriptions of works from both of his CDs of the same name.
Shiori Usui : from scratch
Lawrence Dunn : Ambling, waking
Linda Catlin Smith : Adagietto
James Saunders : alternate
Roscoe Mitchell : CONVERSATIONS for orchestra
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12 Apr
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Friday, May 12, 2017 at 7.30pm
Ravi Shankar's opera: Sukanya
Curve Theatre
Rutland Street Leicester, LE1 1SB
United Kingdom
0116 242 3595
www.curveonline.co.uk
Aakash Odedra Company
BBC Singers
London Philharmonic Orchestra
David Murphy
conductor
After a terrible mistake leaves the ancient sage Chyavana blinded, the beautiful princess Sukanya finds herself marrying for the sake of her kingdom. As a pair of swaggering, meddling gods watch this unlikely union blossom, will love grow in the strangest of circumstances?
Taken from the legendary Sanskrit texts of the Mahābhārata, the story of Sukanya has been brought to life in this innovative production with music by Indian music legend Ravi Shankar and combines traditional Indian instruments with Western orchestra and singers.
This performance is directed by Curve Associate Director Suba Das and unites dance choreographed by the Aakash Odedra Company, production by the Royal Opera and the musicians of the London Philharmonic Orchestra.
Come and experience Ravi Shankar’s Sukanya. This special event combining myth, music and dance brings Ravi Shankar’s opera to life for the very first time.
Ravi Shankar : Sukanya
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15 Apr
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Monday, May 15, 2017 at 8pm
New works for string quartet
IRCAM/Centre Pompidou-Grande salle-Paris
France
Diotima Quartet
Yun-Peng Zhao, violin
Constance Ronzatti, violin
Franck Chevalier, viola
Pierre Morlet, cello
Today, electronics have created unimagined possibilities to a new generation of musicians.
Anima by Ashley Fure represents a quest for electric blood, for digital breathing…. Like a stethoscope listening to the body’s secrets, the performers move transducers from one spot to another on their instruments; instruments that then become loudspeakers.
In memory of the Italian composer Fausto Romitelli, The 1987 Max Headroom Broadcast Incident by Mauro Lanza is a tribute to obsolescent or soon to be forgotten technologies.
In Philipp Maintz’ Geubteste Ferne, the composer questions each instrument’s heterogeneity. How does one keep an open mind when presented with an unexpected object? How does one understand its qualities?
Ghost stories by Oscar Strasnoy blends the voices of famous authors with instrumental sounds. Like genies trapped in lamps, Perec Calvino and Borges speak to us as if they were still alive.
For works that, via alterations or electronics, shift the representation of the string quartet.
Mauro Lanza : The 1987 Max Headroom Broadcast Incident
Ashley Fure : Anima
Oscar Strasnoy : Ghost Stories
Philipp Maintz : Quatuor
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19 Apr
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Friday, May 19, 2017 at 7.30pm
Y Tŵr
Sherman Theatre
Cardiff CF24 4YE
United Kingdom
Guto Puw Composer
Gwyneth Glyn Libretto
Caryl Hughes The Woman
Gwion Thomas The Man
Richard Baker Conductor
Michael McCarthy Director
Samal Blak Designer
Ace McCarron Lighting
“We’ll go up, you and me, together, hand in hand, no fear, no regrets.”
Y Tŵr explores the journey of two people bound together through life’s all too brief struggle, from youth to old-age, from love to despair, from desire to disillusionment. An intense and searching opera from the UK’s leading new opera company and the Welsh-language national theatre company, based on the work of one of Wales’ most important playwrights. Personal and universal. Particular and timeless.
Sung in Welsh with English surtitles.
Guto Puw : Y Tŵr
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19 Apr
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Friday, May 19, 2017 at 7:00pm
Ecce Ensemble Culminates Le Lab Residency with May 19th Concert
Le Laboratoire
650 East Kendall Street
United States
617-945-7515
http://www.lelaboratoirecambridge.com
Tickets: $20
Ecce Ensemble
Roberta Michel (flutes), Carlos Cordeiro (clarinet), Jennifer Choi (violin), John Popham (cello), Amanda DeBoer Bartlett (soprano), Hassan Anderson (oboe), Colin Gee (choreographer/dancer), Sam Budish (percussion), and Julia Den Boer (piano)
As the 2016-17 contemporary music ensemble-in-residence at Cambridge’s Le Laboratoire, the Ecce Ensemble completes its French-inspired season with a diverse program juxtaposing American and French music. The concert features chamber performances of masterworks by French composer Philippe Hurel and by American composer John Aylward. The event is also a program of memorials, featuring two of Hurel's significant homage works, Pour Luigi and In Memoriam a Berio, and the world premiere of Aylward’s Angelus Novus, an homage to Lee Hyla.
John Aylward : Angelus Novus
John Aylward : Daedalus
Philippe Hurel : Pour Luigi
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19 Apr
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Friday, May 19, 2017 at 19.00pm
MUSMA FEAT. AMÔN QUARTET
de Doelen
Rotterdam
Netherlands
Aymeric De Villoutreys - violin
Eva Pusker - violin
Nina Poskin - viola
Anne-Gabrielle Lia-Aragnouet - cello
MusMA, Music Masters on Air is a collaboration between European art institutions, festivals and radio networks that started in 2010. MusMA showcases works by five young composers around a theme. The 2017 theme is ‘Music and Exile’: the galvanising effect of cultural exchange during crisis and displacement. MusMA composers wrote pieces addressing this, performed at Classical:NEXT by Amôn Quartet.
Martin Q Larsson : Ares and Afrodite
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21 Apr
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21 Apr
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Sunday, May 21, 2017 at 4:00PM-6:00PM
New Voices
Old Stone House
336 3rd St, Brooklyn, NY 11215
United States
http://theoldstonehouse.org
Tickets: $25/$15
Laura Strickling, Elisabeth Marshall, soprano; Steven Eddy, baritone; Pascal Archer, clarinet;
Michael Brofman, Miori Sugiyama, piano
On Sunday, May 21st, 2017 Brooklyn Art Song Society will present its season finale, a concert of songs written after 2010, as part of its New Voices series. Two works will be world premieres: A new work by Tom Cipullo written to celebrate the wedding of artistic director Michael Brofman and Glen Rovens Three Songs by Thomas Hardy for baritone and bass-clarinet. Also on the program: Scott Wheelers swashbuckling Ben Gunn Songs on texts from Treasure Island (which BASS premiered in 2015), Michael Djuptroms lushly romantic Three Teasdale Songs and James Kellembachs epic A Primer of Bird on texts by Ted Hughes. Sopranos Laura Strickling and Elisabeth Marshall and baritone Steven Eddy perform works written specifically for their voice.
Tom Cipullo : New Work
James Kallembach : A Primer of Birds
Glen Roven : Three Poems by Thomas Hardy
Scott Wheeler : Ben Gunn
Michael Djuptom : Three Teasdale Songs
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21 Apr
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Sunday, May 21, 2017 at 4:00pm
The Dessoff Choirs in Concert: A New Amorous World
Holy Trinity Church
3 West 65th Street, New York City, NY
United States
Tickets: $15-35
The Dessoff Choirs
Voices of Haiti
United Nations International School Senior Chorus
Hailed as “one of the great amateur choruses of our time (New York Today) for its “full-bodied sound and suppleness (The New York Times),” The Dessoff Choirs completes its 92nd season with an unforgettable concert dedicated to utopian visions. The Dessoff Choirs welcomes intergenerational and cross-cultural guest artists including the United Nations International School Senior Choir and its director Mr. Daniel Stroup, and Johanne Francois and Wenson Delice, co-directors of “Voices of Haiti,” a children’s choir based in Port-au-Prince, Haiti. The featured piece on the program The New Amorous World will be complemented by contemporary choral music sung in the original language from Haiti, China, and the Middle East.
Lembit Beecher : The New Amorous World
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22 Apr
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Monday, May 22, 2017 at 7.30pm
PSYCHO WITH ORCHESTRA
Bath Festival
United Kingdom
Bath Philharmonia
A thrilling opportunity to experience Alfred Hitchcock’s masterpiece with a live orchestra. Bernard Herrmann’s score is integral to the spine-chilling atmosphere of the film, adding impact to the highpoints and maintaining an almost unbearable level of tension throughout. Conductor Jason Thornton and the Bath Philharmonia combined with a great film will provide a cinematic experience to remember.
Bernard Herrmann : Psycho
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23 Apr
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23 Apr
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Tuesday, May 23, 2017 at 12:00pm
Renowned Organist Gail Archer Performs Free Concert in St Paul, MN 5/23
Church of St Louis
506 Cedar Street
United States
651-224-3379
Tickets: Free
Organist Gail Archer
Gail Archer is an international concert organist, recording artist, choral conductor and lecturer who draws attention to composer anniversaries or musical themes with her annual recital series including Max Reger: The Last Romantic, The Muse’s Voice, An American Idyll, Liszt, Bach, Mendelssohn and Messiaen. Ms. Archer was the first American woman to play the complete works of Olivier Messiaen for the centennial of the composer’s birth in 2008; Time Out New York recognized the Messiaen cycle as “Best of 2008” of classical music and opera.
Cesar Cui : Prelude in G Minor
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24 Apr
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25 Apr
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25 Apr
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26 Apr
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Friday, May 26, 2017 at 7:30 pm
Mirrors and Meditations
Church of the Sacred Heart
25 South Street, Exeter EX1 1EB
United Kingdom
01392 667080
www.exeterphoenix.org.uk
Tickets: £11
Jonathan Storer - Violin
Stephen Beville - Piano
Internationally acclaimed pianist and composer Stephen Beville and concert-violinist Jonathan Storer perform a meditative programme featuring Arvo Part's Fratres, Spiegel im Spiegel, Beville's Monodrama (world premiere) and Beethoven's Kreutzer Sonata, Op 47.
Frederick Chopin : Two Nocturnes, Op 27
Frederick Chopin : Ballad No 3 in A-flat, Op 36
Arvo Part : Fratres (1977/80)
Stephen Beville : Monodrama (2011)
Ludwig Van Beethoven : Sonata in A, Op 47, 'Kreutzer'
Arvo Part : Spiegel im Spiegel (1978)
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