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22 Jun
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Friday, June 22, 2012 at 7.30 pm
Evelyn Glennie and Philip Smith
Wigmore Hall, London
36 Wigmore St, London W1
United Kingdom
02079352141
http://www.wigmore-hall.org.uk
Tickets: £15 £20 £25 £30
Evelyn Glennie
percussion
Philip Smith
piano
Famous for hitting anything that neither moves nor flinches, Evelyn Glennie does so with a flair, invention and imagination that has made her without doubt the world’s most celebrated percussionist. She creates new instruments, with a whole body of new repertoire for them to play. Here, collaborating with the pianist Philip Smith, she reconfigures old, established works for new, exploratory sound-worlds.
Toshiro Mayuzumi : Concertino for xylophone and piano
Evelyn Glennie : Waterphone improvisation
Christos Hatzis : Eternity’s heartbeat
Evelyn Glennie : Orologeria Aureola
John Psathas : Drum Dances
Antonio Vivaldi : Concerto in C for piccolo recorder
Philip Sheppard : New Work
Astor Piazzolla : Libertango
Nebojsa Zivkovic : Quasi una sonata
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25 Jun
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Monday, June 25, 2012 at 7.30 pm
Damon Albarn's Dr Dee
English National Opera
London Coliseum
United Kingdom
ENO
About the production starring Damon Albarn
Following the success of Damon Albarn’s Monkey: Journey to the West, ENO presents the London premiere of Albarn’s visionary new opera Dr Dee.
Although largely unknown today, Doctor Dee was the quintessential Renaissance Man. From astrology to alchemy and physics to philosophy, his thirst for knowledge was insatiable and, as a key advisor to Elizabeth I, he is credited with providing much of the intelligence which shaped ‘the British Empire’ established under her rule. Dee also dabbled in the occult and, ultimately, this fascination destroyed him. Conned by a deranged medium, Dee’s career ended in disgrace and sexual scandal and he died discredited and penniless.
This fascinating figure is bought to life by the extraordinary talents of composer and musician Damon Albarn, and director Rufus Norris. Albarn’s music is an ingenious mix of pop vocals, much of which he will perform live on-stage, with contemporary orchestral music played on 16th-century period instruments. Rufus Norris’s staging presents five centuries of English history and the three realms of earth, heaven and hell, with the virtuosic flare which has secured him a raft of awards and five-star reviews from London to Broadway.
Performances
June 25, 26, 28, 29 & July 4, 6, 7 at 7.30pm , July 7 at 2.30pm
8 performances. Running time: 2hrs.
Pre-performance talk: Thur June 28, 5.30-6.15pm, £5
Damon Albarn : Dr Dee
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28 Jun
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Thursday, June 28, 2012 at 7.30 pm
LSO Discovery Celebration Concert
Barbican Hall, London
Barbican, Silk Street, London EC2
United Kingdom
020 7638 8891
http://www.barbican.org.uk/eticketing
Tickets: £4
Kristjan Järvi conductor
Rachel Leach presenter
LSO On Track: Next Generation
Music Maker Schools
London Symphony Orchestra
LSO Discovery brings music into the lives of 60,000 Londoners every year, and the annual summer celebration concert takes just a small slice of these participants and brings them together on the Barbican stage. Conductor Kristjan Järvi directs the LSO in an evening which begins with River Journey, a work commissioned by John Stephens OBE especially to be performed with children from three primary schools close to LSO St Luke's led by animateur Neil Valentine. East London's most gifted young musicians then perform in a new piece they have written with Howard Moody - Terrors of Red Flame.
Jeff Moore : River Journey (LSO commission)
Manuel de Falla : The Three Cornered Hat – Suite
Howard Moody : Terrors of Red Flame (LSO commission)
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29 Jun
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Friday, June 29, 2012 at 7pm
Studio Concert: Knussen conducts Ravel, Debussy and Stravinsky
BBC Maida Vale Studios, London
Maida Vale One, Delaware Road, London
United Kingdom
02085761227
Tickets: FREE (subject to availability)
Oliver Knussen, conductor
BBC Symphony Orchestra
The BBC Symphony Orchestra invites you to a live studio recording of playful, song and dance infused music conducted by Oliver Knussen. Stravinsky’s famous symphonic poem ‘The Song of the Nightingale’ is presented alongside Swiss-French composer Arthur Honegger’s symphonic movement Rugby which, inspired by the game, presents exchanges between orchestral forces suggestive of opposing sides. This is preceded by French waltzes and a berceuse from Ravel and Debussy, as well as Boulez’s orchestration of Ravel’s Frontispice, originally scored for five hands on two pianos.
Maurice Ravel : Valses nobles et sentimentales
Claude Debussy : Berceuse Heroique
Maurice Ravel : Frontispice (arr. Boulez)
Igor Stravinsky : Le Chant du Rossignol
Arthur Honegger : Rugby
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29 Jun
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Friday, June 29, 2012 at 8pm
Music & Música - Composers Don Hagar & Jay Vilnai
BEA - Brazilian Endowment for the Arts
240E 52nd street, New York, NY
United States
212.371.1556
http://www.brazilianendowment.org
contact@brazilianendowment.org
Tickets: $15 and $10
Gelsey Bell, Christine Moore, sopranos; Lynn Bechtold, violin; Dan Barrett, cello.
The Brazilian Endowment for the Arts presents, within the music program Music & Musica, composers Don Hagar and Jay Vilnai. The composers will present a concert that explores different styles of contemporary music. Don Hagar prepared works for strings, while Mr. Vilnai will present pieces that combine voice and strings.
Donald Hagar : Concert for string Trio
Jay Vilnai : 3 Shakespeare songs
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5 Jul
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5 Jul
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6 Jul
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7 Jul
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Saturday, July 07, 2012 at 7.00 pm - 9.00 pm
From Here to Here
The Art Pavilion, Mile End
Mile End Park, Grove Road, London E3
United Kingdom
http://www.artpavilion.info/
Tickets: Free
Contakt: Kerry Andrews, Paul Burnell, Karen Burnell, Deborah Edwards, Derek Foster, Ann Wolff
These sound performances are part of an exhibition of art works that focus on our physical sense of place and time.
Kerry Andrews : From here to here: a line of enquiry
Paul Burnell : Survey
Deborah Broderick Edwards : From here to there and back
Derek Foster : Letting Go
Ann Wolff : Ferry Event
Ann Wolff : Pavilion Exam
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7 Jul
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7 Jul
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Saturday, July 07, 2012 at 16.30
Babur in London
Cheltenham Festival
United Kingdom
Tickets: £25
The Opera Group
Life is short; work is long.
Work is building an empire and a dynasty,
A place your people can call their own,
Making something that will live after you.
In a London suburb, four young men and women are preparing a terrorist act. As their mission draws closer, they are disturbed by the ghost of Babur. first Mughal Emperor - poet and warrior. Challenging their convictions, he calls them “children playing at battle, in love with death”, but what are his motives for interfering?
Babur in London tells a haunting story of four young people in today’s society grappling with their beliefs, the consequences of their actions, and their feelings for each other. The piece combines the contemporary poetry of Jeet Thayil with original music by Edward Rushton and will be directed by John Fulljames.
Suggested age suitability 14 +
Edward Rushton : Babur in London
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7 Jul
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Saturday, July 07, 2012 at 8pm (See website for more performances)
Written on Skin
Festival d'Aix en Provence
United Kingdom
http://www.festival-aix.com/en
Tickets: 240, 190, 110, 55 and 30 €
Festival d’Aix-en-Provence new production
In coproduction with the Nederlandse Opera Amsterdam, the Royal Opera House Covent Garden London, the Théâtre du Capitole de Toulouse, the Teatro del Maggio Musicale Fiorentino
A rich lord welcomes into his house the artist he has commissioned to complete a book of illuminations. This work, he hopes, will immortalise the ruthless practice of his political power and the calm contentment brought to him by domestic order, embodied in the humility and childish obedience of his wife Agnes.
However the creation of the book becomes a catalyst for his wife’s rebellion. After a first successful attempt at seduction, Agnes uses her new intimacy with the illuminator to change the very content of the book and so forces her husband to see her as she really is. This opens the path for an extraordinary and final act of provocation.
Written on Skin, based on an Occitan legend from the 12th century and performed under the cold gaze of 21st-century angels, explores the explosive consequences of self-discovery and the limitations of the power that one human being can exert on another.
Commissioned by the Festival d’Aix-en-Provence and other co-producing opera houses, this world premiere was created by two of the most prominent artists of our time.
George Benjamin : Written on Skin
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9 Jul
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Monday, July 09, 2012 at
Summer Concert
Enfield Grammar School
Enfield, North London
United Kingdom
Joshua Wilson, bassoon
EYSO conducted by Philip Colman
Kelvin Thomson : Boojum
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14 Jul
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Saturday, July 14, 2012 at 8pm
Harmonielehre @ Peckham Multi-Storey Car Park
Peckham Rye Multi-Storey Car Park
United Kingdom
http://www.trosp.me/harm
Tickets: Free
TROSP Orchestra
This July the 100 piece TROSP Orchestra returns to Peckham Rye Multi-Storey car park to play John Adams' HARMONIELEHRE: a huge orchestral piece which Adams says was inspired by a dream in which he "watched a gigantic supertanker take off and thrust itself into the sky like a Saturn rocket".
John Adams : HARMONIELEHRE
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15 Jul
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Sunday, July 15, 2012 at 19:30
London Symphony Orchestra / Valery Gergiev
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
Valery Gergiev conductor
Renée Fleming soprano*
London Symphony Orchestra
La mer is an ambient, rich depiction of the ever-changing face of the sea. Originally composed for soprano Renée Fleming, Dutilleux said while writing Le temps l’horloge (Time and the clock), that for inspiration he ‘constantly thought of her voice’s character, of her power of lyrical expression’. Shéhérazade tells the tale of how one lucky maiden saves her head night after night by keeping the sultan enthralled with her stories of Arabian legends. Petrushka is the magical story of a straw and sawdust puppet that comes to life complete with human thoughts and emotions.
Change of programme
Please note the change of programme from some early listings
Pre-concert performance
6 – 6.45pm, Barbican Hall
Guildhall Artists at the Barbican
Ravel Piano Trio performed by the Rhodes Piano Trio
Free entry
Claude Debussy : La Mer
Henri Dutilleux : Le temps l’horloge
Maurice Ravel : Shéhérazade
Igor Stravinsky : Petrushka
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16 Jul
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Monday, July 16, 2012 at 7:15 pm - 9:00 pm
The Turn of the Screw
Buxton Festival
3 The Square, Buxton, Derbyshire SK17 6AZ
United Kingdom
01298 70395
http://www.buxtonfestival.co.uk/
lee@buxtonfestival.co.uk
Tickets: £10 - £48
NI Opera
Opera in a prologue and two acts.
Libretto by Myfanwy Piper, after the story by Henry James, sung in English
Based on Henry James’s classic ghost story, Benjamin Britten’s masterpiece is a compact and chilling tale of the supernatural.
When an eager young governess is sent from London to look after two orphaned children in a remote English country house, she quickly discovers that the apparent idyll is not as it seems. Mystery envelops the house as sinister spirits from the past return to reveal a terrible secret of innocence lost, and we begin to wonder who is really possessed, the naïve young governess or the two strange children in her care?
This tense and compelling tale, combined with a scintillating score of radiant and haunting music, creates one of the twentieth century’s greatest and most gripping operas.
NI Opera, an ambitious and imaginative new company, has assembled a wonderful cast for this new production including Fiona Murphy, Andrew Tortise, Giselle Allen and Yvonne Howard.
Benjamin Britten : The Turn of the Screw
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17 Jul
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Tuesday, July 17, 2012 at 6:00PM
BBC Proms Plus Portrait 2012: Saariaho
Royal College of Music, London
Prince Consort Rd, London SW7
United Kingdom
Tom Service presenter
Kaija Saariaho in conversation
London Sinfonietta Academy Ensemble
The London Sinfonietta Academy Ensemble are joined by Finnish composer Kaija Saariaho and broadcaster Tom Service to present a BBC Proms Plus Portrait.
In Tocar, the title of which translates, from Spanish, as 'to touch, to play', Saariaho explores 'how two instruments can touch each other'. Meanwhile, Serenatas, a collection of five small pieces, the order of which is chosen by the performers, reflects on material from two of Saariaho's orchestral works Mirage and Notes on Light.
Kaija Saariaho : Tocar
Kaija Saariaho : Serenatas
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18 Jul
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Wednesday, July 18, 2012 at 7.30 p.m
Solaris
Bregenz Festival
Austria
http://www.bregenzerfestspiele.com
Tickets: 40-95 EURO
Responsibility, guilt, memory
What would it be like if some unimaginable force were able to give material form to all our repressed emotions and thoughts? To resurrect, from our memories, people who once were close to us – as beings that confront us with our past and yet remain permanently out of reach and beyond our comprehension? What would happen to us as a result? That is exactly what Solaris is about, the famous novel by Polish science fiction author Stanis³aw Lem published in 1961, and which the German composer Detlev Glanert has now turned into an opera.
Solaris is the story of the psychologist Kelvin, who is dispatched to a space station which is orbiting the distant planet Solaris and on which strange things have been happening. Arriving on board, Kelvin is straight away warned about weird apparitions of the kind that relentlessly plague the crew members. None of the crew seem able to rid themselves of the "guests". It isn't long before Kelvin's personal phantasm appears in the form of his former wife, Harey, who killed herself at the age of nineteen, and who now starts revisiting him.
It is the planet's gigantic ocean which makes all these strange beings materialise, projecting the crew members' feelings of guilt into their lives once again, with persistence and indifference. Haunted by guilty memories, the rational scientist Kelvin is increasingly beset by irrational thoughts and feelings. In the end he is the one most deeply affected by the nightly visitations of beings which the plant bodies forth from the crew members' own memories.
Further performances
22 July - 11.00 a.m.
25 July - 7.30 p.m.
Introductory talk in the Festspielhaus will be start one hour before performance
Detlev Glanert : Solaris
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20 Jul
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Friday, July 20, 2012 at
Hilltown 5th New Music Festival
Hilltown New Music Festival
Castlepollard
Ireland
http://www.hilltown.ie/buytickets.html
http://www.hilltown.ie
Tickets: http://www.hilltown.ie/buytickets.html
Quiet Music Esnemble, David Toop, Barbara Luneburg, Hilltown Ensemble, Strange Attractor, Kirkos Ensemble, Karen Power.
John Cage:
Child of Tree, Chorales, Four, Four4, Four6
Ryoanji , Inlets, Music for Clarinet
ASLSP, Radio Music, One10
Sculptures Musicales
Music also by: Oliver Knussen, Norah Constance Walsh, Sinéad Finegan, Conal Ryan, Trevor Furlong, Derek Ball, Gráinne Mulvey
Hilltown New Music Festival 2012
Friday 20th - Sunday 22nd July
The Hilltown New Music Festival is an international weekend festival of contemporary music, sonic and visual installations around the medieval castle keep in the grounds of Hilltown House, Castlepollard, Co.Westmeath.
Karen Power : some things just are
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21 Jul
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Saturday, July 21, 2012 at 7:30pm - 10:00pm
Cool Fusion
All Saints Church, West Dulwich
Lovelace Road, SE21 7JY
United Kingdom
020 8676 4550
http://www.all-saints.org.uk
vicar@all-saints.org.uk
Tickets: £12/£10 concessions, from ticketline.co.uk/cool-fusion or 0844 888 9991, booking fee applies
Lambeth Wind Orchestra
Putney Arts Theatre
Coronel Percussion
Cool Fusion Jazz
Cool Fusion Electronica
Mark Pampel (piano)
Cool Fusion is one of the largest voluntary-arts initiatives in the London 2012 Cultural Olympiad. It presents a series of four performances of new music and drama in historic London venues, celebrating the Olympics and Paralympics within London's vibrant culture. It is a partnership of London Composers Forum, Colchester New Music and Putney Writers' Circle.
Developed collaboratively by twelve composers and four writers, Cool Fusion uses wind orchestra, percussion ensemble, electronics and actors to weave a narrative of exceptional human endeavour. The performance is framed by historical episodes, from sandals to scandals, chariots to wheelchairs, outside track to winners’ podium. These are interwoven with works exploring the parallels between music and physical culture, in rhythms of pace, endurance, determination and achievement.
Texts and libretti for musical works are contributed by Rita Adam (Four Minute Mile), Sir Arthur Conan Doyle (Dorando : An Olympic Tale) and Linda Redshaw (Outside Track). Additional non-musical drama pieces are contributed by Marcia Kelson and Dan Clarke.
In the run-up to the world premiere at All Saints West Dulwich, Cool Fusion is working on a local outreach project with Kids' Company in Lambeth, exploring the Cool Fusion's themes through percussion, movement, visual art and English. Some of the results will be unveiled at the All Saints performance.
This performance and outreach project are supported by public funding from the National Lottery through Arts Council England.
Mark Garnham : Fanfare for the Olympic Flame (London 2012)
David Arditti : Time and Tide
Cedric Peachey : Gold, Silver & Bronze
Alan Parsons : Fanfare for 2012
Mark Pampel : THE FINAL
Martin Jones : Four Minute Mile
Phil Baker : Triumphal Laurels – Canzona ii from Canzonae Olympiae for Brass Quartet & Timpani
Luca Tieppo : Dorando: An Olympic Tale
Mark Pampel : Against the Odds
Stuart Russell : Distance/Time
Alan Taylor : Episode I from Five Incomplete Episodes
Andy Bungay : Outside Track
Alan Hilton : Olympic Fanfare
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21 Jul
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Saturday, July 21, 2012 at 3.00pm
Songs from the Exotic
King's Head Theatre, London
115 Upper Street, Islington, N1 1QN
United Kingdom
02074780160
http://kingsheadtheatre.ticketsolve.com/shows/873482965/events
Tickets: £12
Cerys Jones (mezzo-soprano)
Tim Watts (piano)
Quests for spiritual enlightenment and sensual discovery...memories of lovers, long ago and faraway...the incomparable strangeness of the everyday...
Ideas of the exotic are explored in all their mystery and potency in a programme of songs based on translations of Hindu, Spanish, Polish, Serbian, German and Gaelic poetry.
Gustav Holst : Vedic Hymns, Op. 24 (selection)
Samuel Barber : Three Songs, Op. 45
Foulds John : 'Exotic' (from 'Essays in the modes')
Judith Weir : Songs from the exotic
Tim Watts : White Shadow
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