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11 Nov
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Friday, October 11, 2013 at 19.00 John Turner & Friends. Celebrating English Music St Edmund's Church, Southwold Bartholomew Green, Southwold United Kingdom http://www.williamalwyn.co.uk/festival/
John Turner, Recorder
Lesley-Jane Rogers, Soprano
Harvey Davies, Piano
Heather Bills, Cello
William Alwyn : Seascapes for soprano, recorder & piano Peter Dickinson : Sonatina Christopher Wright : Helter Skelter for cello & piano Sebastian Forbes : Southwold Serenade Joseph Phibbs : Pierrot for recorder & piano Geraint Lewis : A Blackbird Singing for recorder & piano John Joubert : Three Villanelles Nicholas Marshall : The Swallows of Summer Malcolm Lipkin : Naboth's Vineyard Robin Orr : Fugue in C minor Kenneth Leighton : Animal Heaven David Dubery : Three Songs to Poems by Robert Graves David Matthews : Night Sky Gordon Crosse : The Thing with Feathers Anthony Gilbert : Behind all This Karel Janovicky : Festive Fantasia and Fugue Thomas Pitfield : Prelude, Minuet and Reel Peter Hope : June Notes Alan Bullard : Canonic Proverbs Richard Rastell : Three Songs for Our Time Mervyn Burtch : Three Kipling Songs
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12 Nov
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12 Nov
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Saturday, October 12, 2013 at 8pm Zbigniew Preisner & Lisa Gerrard Diaries of Hope (UK premiere) Barbican Hall, London Barbican, Silk Street, London EC2 United Kingdom 020 7638 8891 http://www.barbican.org.uk/eticketing
Tickets: £20-30
Leading Polish film composer Zbigniew Preisner conducts the Britten Sinfonia strings and Crouch End Festival Chorus in the UK premiere of Diaries of Hope – a new work inspired by the diaries and poems of Polish children who were victims of the Holocaust.
Lisa Gerrard from spellbinding duo Dead Can Dance – nominated for an Oscar for her vocals on major film Gladiator and two Golden Globes for The Insider and Ali – performs in the principal vocal role alongside boy soprano Archie Buchanan.
Best known for his scores for the films of Krzysztof Kieslowski (Dekalog, The Double Life Of Veronique, Three Colours Blue and more) and for Requiem for my friend, his moving tribute to Kieslowski, Preisner is one of the most celebrated film composers of his generation and recipient of many accolades including a Silver Bear from the Berlin Film Festival and two Césars from the French Film Academy.
Zbigniew Preisner : Diaries of Hope
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Sunday, October 20, 2013 at 7:15pm Jazz Legend Chico Hamilton performs Oct - Dec 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: $15 Chico Hamilton
Euphoria band
LEGENDARY DRUMMER CHICO HAMILTON CONTINUES MONTHLY CONCERT SERIES AT NEW YORK CITY’S DROM
Sundays this Fall: 10.20 + 11.17 + 12.15
WHAT: NEA JAZZ MASTER CHICO HAMILTON @ DROM
In yet another strong showing by this venerable drummer, 92 year-old percussionist and band leader Foreststorn “Chico” Hamilton celebrates his working life in a trio of concerts – EUPHORIC: Celebrating the Life & Music of Chico Hamilton. Known for fashioning finely textured sounds with small ensembles, Chico leads his long-time working group Euphoria 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 some new original material as well as works off of Chico’s latest vivacious albums: Revelation and Euphoric (Joyous Shout!). 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. According to Jazz Improv NY, “he sounds more creative and artistic than ever.”
WHEN: Sunday, October 20 @ 7:15PM
Sunday, November 17 @ 7:15PM
Sunday, December 15 @ 7:15PM
WHERE: DROM, 85 Avenue A (b/w 5th & 6th St), New York City; Train F to 2nd Avenue, 10009
HOW: $15/Advance $12. To reserve, call DROM at 212.777.1157 or visit www.dromNYC.com.
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Chico Hamilton : Euphoria
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21 Nov
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22 Nov
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Tuesday, October 22, 2013 at 7pm/7.15pm/7.30pm The Rape of Lucretia Various
United Kingdom
Tickets: £8-£85 Conductor Nicholas Collon / Jack Ridley (15 Nov)
Director Fiona Shaw
Set Designer Michael Levine
Costume Designer Nicky Gillibrand
Lighting Designer Paul Anderson
The Glyndebourne Tour Orchestra
Cast
Male Chorus Allan Clayton / Andrew Dickinson (15, 22 Nov)
Female Chorus Kate Valentine
Collatinus David Soar
Junius Oliver Dunn
Tarquinius Duncan Rock
Lucretia Claudia Huckle
Bianca Catherine Wyn-Rogers
Lucia Ellie Laugharne
Given its first ever performance at Glyndebourne in 1946, Benjamin Britten created this opera with the poet Ronald Duncan, who wrote about their collaboration: ‘Britten and I worked at the same desk. We first discussed the shape of the whole drama and then spent several days working over this in order to reduce it to its essential simplicity. We kept our work fluid – even after it had gone to the printer and engraver, much to their dismay.’
The result of this close collaboration is an extraordinary and tightly focussed treatment of a legend which has acquired numerous layers in painting, poetry and drama. Lucretia is raped by the tyrant Tarquinius Superbus, ruler of Rome, and elects to kill herself rather than live with the shame. The action of the opera is commented on throughout by a Male and Female Chorus who occupy another dimension, at times narrating the story and at times voicing the thoughts of the different characters.
The central role of Lucretia is one which engages the talents of a singing actress to the utmost and one with which director Fiona Shaw will empathise keenly, drawing on her own experiences as both a performer and a director.
It was in describing this work that Britten coined the term ‘chamber opera’, creating a work of distilled power and refinement with a cast of eight and an orchestra of 12 players and piano.
For full list of venues and dates, see here: http://glyndebourne.com/production/rape-of-lucretia-tour-2013
Benjamin Britten : The Rape of Lucretia
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23 Nov
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24 Nov
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Thursday, October 24, 2013 at 8pm Funkhause am Wallrafplatz, Köln Funkhaus am Wallrafplatz Klaus-von-Bismacksaal, Köln Germany
SWR Vokalensemble Stuttgart
Ensemble musikFabrik
Conductor Marcus Creed
IRCAM computer music design Gregory Beller
The time of beginning based on Ovid, the time of the first men, the time of civilizations: Raphaël Cendo has arranged his epic for choir, ensemble, and electronics in three large chapters, with, by way of an epilogue, uses this fragment of Heraclitus: If one does not hope, one will not find the unhoped-for, since there is no trail leading to it and no path. Registre, according to the composer, designates the book of memories, "memory of lights that transmitted a common, far away, past, milestones of our Humanity".
Raphaël Cendo : Registre des lumières Francesco Filidei : Finito ogni gesto
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24 Nov
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Thursday, October 24, 2013 at 7.30pm The Hallé Bridgewater Hall, Manchester Manchester M1 5HA United Kingdom 44 (0) 161 907 9000 http://bridgewater-hall.co.uk box@bridgewater-hall.co.uk
Tickets: £11-38 The Hallé
Markus Stenz conductor | Carolyn Sampson soprano | Neal Davies bass-baritone | Hallé Choir
This event celebrates The Royal Philharmonic Society Bicentenary 1813-2013.
Principal Guest Conductor Markus Stenz has forged a strong relationship with the Hallé Choir and here directs one of the great masterpieces of the choral repertoire, Brahms’s German Requiem. Its title aside, the work has an appeal that transcends both national boundaries and religious beliefs (Brahms even considered naming it a ‘Human Requiem’) and it remains a deeply moving experience for audiences everywhere. While its musical language is unmistakably that of Brahms, it also looks back to Bach and to the composers of the Renaissance. Brahms’s progression from suffering to eventual consolation is thus both dramatically and musically fascinating. Wolfgang Rihm is a composer who never fails to confound and enthral. The concert opens with his Tribute (Über die Linie VIII), an homage to Benjamin Britten commissioned by the Royal Philharmonic Society and given its world premiere by Sir Mark and the Hallé at the 2013 Aldeburgh Festival.
Wolfgang Rihm : A Tribute (Über die Linie VIII) Johannes Brahms : A German Requiem
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28 Nov
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Monday, October 28, 2013 at 7.30pm Michael Nyman Solo Piano and Film: Music from and for Film Town Hall, Birmingham Victoria Square B3 3DQ United Kingdom 0121 780 3333 http://www.thsh.co.uk/
Tickets: £22.50/£27.50 Michael Nyman
British composer Michael Nyman returns to Birmingham in an intimate performance at Town Hall, playing solo piano music from films that he has collaborated on with directors including Peter Greenaway, Jane Campion and Neil Jordan.
Accompanied by a selection of films that Nyman personally recorded whilst on his travels, the evening provides a fascinating insight into the visual and musical world.
Michael Nyman : Various
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29 Nov
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Tuesday, October 29, 2013 at 7.30pm Frank Zappa: 200 Motels Royal Festival Hall, London South Bank, London SE1 United Kingdom 020 7840 4242 http://www.rfh.org.uk
Tickets: £25-£45 Claron McFadden soprano
Southbank Sinfonia
BBC Concert Orchestra
Jurjen Hempel conductor
One of the music events of the year Frank Zappa's legendary 1971 work 200 Motels is performed live in concert for the first ever time in the UK.
This colossal piece, one of the most ambitious that Zappa ever wrote, is performed by the full forces of the BBC Concert Orchestra, Southbank Sinfonia, London Voices and a large cast of rock musicians, singers and actors.
Banned from live performance at the time of its composition, and a cult classic on film and on record ever since, 200 Motels can finally be heard on stage in its full glory.
Please note, this event contains sexually explicit material and is suitable for audiences aged 18+
Frank Zappa : 200 Motels
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29 Nov
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Tuesday, October 29, 2013 at 7.30 Contemporary Concert | The Yellow Wallpaper BBC Hoddinott Hall Cardiff Wales
Tickets: £8 - £10 BBCNOW
Conductor | Thierry Fischer
Soprano | Elizabeth Atherton
Violin | Baiba Skride
Simon Holt's The Yellow Wallpaper tells the story of feminist writer Charlotte Perkins Gillman. Experience the story of this woman's obsession with her enclosed surroundings. Accompanied by two 1930s masterpieces: Franz Schmidt's Fourth Symphony and Berg's Violin Concerto. Composed with furious intensity and pre-emptive of Berg's own untimely death, the Concerto is best known as his own requiem.
Alban Berg : Violin Concerto Simon Holt : The Yellow Wallpaper Franz Schmidt : Symphony No 4
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