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The Hackney-based sound pioneer has also worked with Jessie Ware, The Last Dinner Party and Depeche Mode
2024-02-09 08:56:00
Easter Festival at St John's Smith Square
St John's Smith Square2024 marks the 300th anniversary of the first performance of Bach's St John Passion, and St John's Smith Square will be marking this with a performance from Stephen Layton, Polyphony and the Orchestra of the Age of Enlightenment with James Gilchrist as the Evangelist on Friday 29 March 2024 as the culmination of this year's Easter Festival at St John's Smith Square.The festival, which runs through Holy Week, also includes the National Youth Choir in Fauré's Requiem, whilst the Southbank Sinfonia is joining forces with the Purcell Singers and conductors Mark Ford and Jonathan Schranz for a concert that pairs Mozart's Requiem with Eric Whitacre's When David Heard, Knut Nystedt's Immortal Bach and Kerry Andrew's O Nata Lux.Lunchtime concerts include organist Roger Sayer in Marcel Dupré's Symphonie-Passion plus music by Bach and Alfred Hollins, and the Civil Service Choir, conductor Stephen Hall, in masses by Schubert and Haydn.Full […]
2023-10-09 13:47:41
Verdi, War, 2023
This Week in Classical Music: October 8, 2023. Verdi, War. Today is the 210th anniversary of Giuseppe Verdi’s birth, but we’re not in the mood to celebrate it: it seems inappropriate with the war raging in Israel and Gaza after the Hamas barbaric terrorist attack. There are many trite sayings about the power of music to heal, to make peace, but they all seem shallow in comparison to the news of civilians being killed in cold blood or the horror of the Israeli kids being abducted by Hamas into Gaza. If anything, throughout history music has been used to make war, from military bands leading troops into battle to Nazis using it in concentration camps. (And no, the Ride of the Valkyries wasn’t used in Vietnam by the US helicopter pilots, it was Francis Ford Coppola’s brilliant invention). We thought of maybe using parts of Verdi’s Requiem or the famous chorus […]
2023-08-08 09:07:45
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