Hot Tunes Cold War

Pre concert talk at 6pm looking at the impact of the Cold War on European and American cultural identity.

Free, no booking required

With thanks to our partner venues and organisations and those who have generously supported this series.

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Britten and Copland wrote their clarinet concertos for the American ‘King of Swing’, Benny Goodman, with Britten’s original (unfinished) score impounded by US Immigration in 1941. It was eventually finished by Colin Matthews. Britten’s Serenade for Tenor, Horn and Strings was composed in 1947 and was one of the first pieces he wrote on his return from wartime America. Setting English poems on the ideas of night, sleep and the ‘cloak of evil’, it shares similar themes with Shostakovich’s Fourteenth Symphony, which was written as a creative response to the Soviet invasion of Czechoslovakia in 1968. A sombre piece, filled with imagery of death and destruction, it was dedicated to Benjamin Britten who gave the Western premiere in 1970.

*limited availability

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conductor/clarinet horn soprano tenor bass

Programme details correct at time of going to print. City of London Sinfonia reserves the right to amend programme and performer details in exceptional circumstances.

SE PT EM BE R

Michael Collins Stephen Stirling Evelina Dobracheva Ronan Busfield Graeme Broadbent

CLS FIVER (16-25 years & students) £5* register at cls.co.uk/CLS-FIVER for tickets

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Britten Serenade for Tenor, Horn and Strings Britten (arr. Colin Matthews) Movements for a Clarinet Concerto (2nd movt) Copland Clarinet Concerto Shostakovich Symphony No.14

Series Concessions available for children (under 16 years old), registered disabled, job seekers and groups. Check availability with relevant box office.

HO CO T TU LD NE WA S R

Friday 27 September 2013 7.30 – 9.30pm Queen Elizabeth Hall, Southbank Centre, SE1 8XX £28, £21, £15, £10

Concert information (not box office) 020 7621 2800 cls.co.uk/Hot-Tunes

CLS FIVER

Music frOm acrOss the IrOn Curtain

Talk to us /cityoflondonsinfonia

In partnership with the Forum for European Philosophy

Part of the Southbank Centre’s year-long festival inspired by Alex Ross’ book The Rest is Noise

Box Office: 0844 847 9910 southbankcentre.co.uk

/CityLdnSinfonia

Promoter: City of London Sinfonia, Piano House, 9 Brighton Terrace, London, SW9 8DJ. Registered Charity: 286818

Tickets from £10 Southbank Centre Village Underground Cadogan Hall

cls.co.uk/Hot-Tunes

HOt Tunes COld War In this series we look at how classical music was influenced by the political events leading up to and during the Cold War. While the United States of America and Russia held the world captive in a steely display of espionage, space races and nuclear daredevilry, music rebelled with an explosion of jazz and swing; a blistering contrast to the arctic temperatures of international politics. We look at the development of jazz from 1922 onwards, set against the backdrop of the turbulent international era, and its effect on art and culture as a whole.

Our Principal Conductor, Michael Collins, conducts and performs music from across the Iron Curtain, as part of the Southbank Centre’s Rest is Noise Festival, exploring how this explosion of jazz influenced the work of some of the best known composers of the twentieth century. There will also be a free pre-concert discussion looking at the impact of the Cold War on European and American cultural identity. Stepping back in time, as part of our informal concert series, CLoSer, we transform Shoreditch’s Village Underground into a vintage cinema for a screening of the 1929 silent movie, The New Babylon, with the Orchestra performing Dmitri Shostakovich’s original, cabaret-tinged film score alongside. Finally, Michael Collins returns to conduct a programme dedicated to the American ‘Kings of Swing’, Benny Goodman and Woody Herman.

CLOSer: The New babylOn

JAZZ Kings

Wednesday 23 October 2013 7.30 – 9.00pm (doors open 6.45pm) Village Underground, 54 Holywell Lane, EC2A 3PQ

Thursday 31 October 2013 7.30 – 9.30pm Cadogan Hall, 5 Sloane Terrace, SW1X 9DQ

£15 (includes one free drink)

£32, £25, £18, £12

Shostakovich The New Babylon

Stravinsky Gershwin Weill Shostakovich Bernstein

Hugh Brunt

conductor

Shostakovich wrote his one and only silent film score to Grigori Kozintsev and Leonid Trauberg’s 1929 film, The New Babylon. Set in the Paris Commune of the 1870s, it tells the tale of the encounter and tragic fate of two lovers separated by the barricades.

Written before Stalin and his censors deemed jazz a ‘degenerate’ music, the score is filled with jazz and cabaret inspired music. It shows Shostakovich at his most wild and satirical, before the introduction of Russian censorship and state sponsorship of classical music. We perform the score alongside a screening of the original 1929 film.

There will be no interval during the concert and the bar will be open throughout. Please note seating is on a first come, first served basis.

In partnership with Spitalfields Music and Village Underground Supported by Arts Council England & M&G Investments

Box Office: 020 7377 1362 spitalfieldsmusic.org.uk

Ebony Concerto Rhapsody in Blue (original dance band version) Suite from the Threepenny Opera Jazz Suite No 1 Prelude, Fugue and Riffs

Michael Collins conductor/clarinet Gwilym Simcock piano We perform music written for some of the biggest jazz names of the 1930s and 1940s: American jazz clarinettists Benny Goodman and Woody Herman, and the band leader Paul Whiteman – together with Kurt Weill’s music for his Threepenny Opera and Shostakovich’s first Jazz Suite.

Benny Goodman and Woody Herman both commissioned the leading classical composers of their day to write music for their jazz bands – Goodman working with Leonard Bernstein and Herman with Igor Stravinsky.

We are joined by leading jazz pianist Gwilym Simcock for a performance of George Gershwin’s timeless Rhapsody in Blue, in the original version composed for Paul Whiteman’s dance band.

Box Office: 020 7730 4500 cadoganhall.com

Pre concert talk at 6pm looking at the impact of the Cold War on European and American cultural identity.

Free, no booking required

With thanks to our partner venues and organisations and those who have generously supported this series.

20 13

5

OC TO BE R

Britten and Copland wrote their clarinet concertos for the American ‘King of Swing’, Benny Goodman, with Britten’s original (unfinished) score impounded by US Immigration in 1941. It was eventually finished by Colin Matthews. Britten’s Serenade for Tenor, Horn and Strings was composed in 1947 and was one of the first pieces he wrote on his return from wartime America. Setting English poems on the ideas of night, sleep and the ‘cloak of evil’, it shares similar themes with Shostakovich’s Fourteenth Symphony, which was written as a creative response to the Soviet invasion of Czechoslovakia in 1968. A sombre piece, filled with imagery of death and destruction, it was dedicated to Benjamin Britten who gave the Western premiere in 1970.

*limited availability

-3 1

conductor/clarinet horn soprano tenor bass

Programme details correct at time of going to print. City of London Sinfonia reserves the right to amend programme and performer details in exceptional circumstances.

SE PT EM BE R

Michael Collins Stephen Stirling Evelina Dobracheva Ronan Busfield Graeme Broadbent

CLS FIVER (16-25 years & students) £5* register at cls.co.uk/CLS-FIVER for tickets

27

Britten Serenade for Tenor, Horn and Strings Britten (arr. Colin Matthews) Movements for a Clarinet Concerto (2nd movt) Copland Clarinet Concerto Shostakovich Symphony No.14

Series Concessions available for children (under 16 years old), registered disabled, job seekers and groups. Check availability with relevant box office.

HO CO T TU LD NE WA S R

Friday 27 September 2013 7.30 – 9.30pm Queen Elizabeth Hall, Southbank Centre, SE1 8XX £28, £21, £15, £10

Concert information (not box office) 020 7621 2800 cls.co.uk/Hot-Tunes

CLS FIVER

Music frOm acrOss the IrOn Curtain

Talk to us /cityoflondonsinfonia

In partnership with the Forum for European Philosophy

Part of the Southbank Centre’s year-long festival inspired by Alex Ross’ book The Rest is Noise

Box Office: 0844 847 9910 southbankcentre.co.uk

/CityLdnSinfonia

Promoter: City of London Sinfonia, Piano House, 9 Brighton Terrace, London, SW9 8DJ. Registered Charity: 286818

Tickets from £10 Southbank Centre Village Underground Cadogan Hall

cls.co.uk/Hot-Tunes

HOt Tunes COld War In this series we look at how classical music was influenced by the political events leading up to and during the Cold War. While the United States of America and Russia held the world captive in a steely display of espionage, space races and nuclear daredevilry, music rebelled with an explosion of jazz and swing; a blistering contrast to the arctic temperatures of international politics. We look at the development of jazz from 1922 onwards, set against the backdrop of the turbulent international era, and its effect on art and culture as a whole.

Our Principal Conductor, Michael Collins, conducts and performs music from across the Iron Curtain, as part of the Southbank Centre’s Rest is Noise Festival, exploring how this explosion of jazz influenced the work of some of the best known composers of the twentieth century. There will also be a free pre-concert discussion looking at the impact of the Cold War on European and American cultural identity. Stepping back in time, as part of our informal concert series, CLoSer, we transform Shoreditch’s Village Underground into a vintage cinema for a screening of the 1929 silent movie, The New Babylon, with the Orchestra performing Dmitri Shostakovich’s original, cabaret-tinged film score alongside. Finally, Michael Collins returns to conduct a programme dedicated to the American ‘Kings of Swing’, Benny Goodman and Woody Herman.

CLOSer: The New babylOn

JAZZ Kings

Wednesday 23 October 2013 7.30 – 9.00pm (doors open 6.45pm) Village Underground, 54 Holywell Lane, EC2A 3PQ

Thursday 31 October 2013 7.30 – 9.30pm Cadogan Hall, 5 Sloane Terrace, SW1X 9DQ

£15 (includes one free drink)

£32, £25, £18, £12

Shostakovich The New Babylon

Stravinsky Gershwin Weill Shostakovich Bernstein

Hugh Brunt

conductor

Shostakovich wrote his one and only silent film score to Grigori Kozintsev and Leonid Trauberg’s 1929 film, The New Babylon. Set in the Paris Commune of the 1870s, it tells the tale of the encounter and tragic fate of two lovers separated by the barricades.

Written before Stalin and his censors deemed jazz a ‘degenerate’ music, the score is filled with jazz and cabaret inspired music. It shows Shostakovich at his most wild and satirical, before the introduction of Russian censorship and state sponsorship of classical music. We perform the score alongside a screening of the original 1929 film.

There will be no interval during the concert and the bar will be open throughout. Please note seating is on a first come, first served basis.

In partnership with Spitalfields Music and Village Underground Supported by Arts Council England & M&G Investments

Box Office: 020 7377 1362 spitalfieldsmusic.org.uk

Ebony Concerto Rhapsody in Blue (original dance band version) Suite from the Threepenny Opera Jazz Suite No 1 Prelude, Fugue and Riffs

Michael Collins conductor/clarinet Gwilym Simcock piano We perform music written for some of the biggest jazz names of the 1930s and 1940s: American jazz clarinettists Benny Goodman and Woody Herman, and the band leader Paul Whiteman – together with Kurt Weill’s music for his Threepenny Opera and Shostakovich’s first Jazz Suite.

Benny Goodman and Woody Herman both commissioned the leading classical composers of their day to write music for their jazz bands – Goodman working with Leonard Bernstein and Herman with Igor Stravinsky.

We are joined by leading jazz pianist Gwilym Simcock for a performance of George Gershwin’s timeless Rhapsody in Blue, in the original version composed for Paul Whiteman’s dance band.

Box Office: 020 7730 4500 cadoganhall.com

HOt Tunes COld War In this series we look at how classical music was influenced by the political events leading up to and during the Cold War. While the United States of America and Russia held the world captive in a steely display of espionage, space races and nuclear daredevilry, music rebelled with an explosion of jazz and swing; a blistering contrast to the arctic temperatures of international politics. We look at the development of jazz from 1922 onwards, set against the backdrop of the turbulent international era, and its effect on art and culture as a whole.

Our Principal Conductor, Michael Collins, conducts and performs music from across the Iron Curtain, as part of the Southbank Centre’s Rest is Noise Festival, exploring how this explosion of jazz influenced the work of some of the best known composers of the twentieth century. There will also be a free pre-concert discussion looking at the impact of the Cold War on European and American cultural identity. Stepping back in time, as part of our informal concert series, CLoSer, we transform Shoreditch’s Village Underground into a vintage cinema for a screening of the 1929 silent movie, The New Babylon, with the Orchestra performing Dmitri Shostakovich’s original, cabaret-tinged film score alongside. Finally, Michael Collins returns to conduct a programme dedicated to the American ‘Kings of Swing’, Benny Goodman and Woody Herman.

CLOSer: The New babylOn

JAZZ Kings

Wednesday 23 October 2013 7.30 – 9.00pm (doors open 6.45pm) Village Underground, 54 Holywell Lane, EC2A 3PQ

Thursday 31 October 2013 7.30 – 9.30pm Cadogan Hall, 5 Sloane Terrace, SW1X 9DQ

£15 (includes one free drink)

£32, £25, £18, £12

Shostakovich The New Babylon

Stravinsky Gershwin Weill Shostakovich Bernstein

Hugh Brunt

conductor

Shostakovich wrote his one and only silent film score to Grigori Kozintsev and Leonid Trauberg’s 1929 film, The New Babylon. Set in the Paris Commune of the 1870s, it tells the tale of the encounter and tragic fate of two lovers separated by the barricades.

Written before Stalin and his censors deemed jazz a ‘degenerate’ music, the score is filled with jazz and cabaret inspired music. It shows Shostakovich at his most wild and satirical, before the introduction of Russian censorship and state sponsorship of classical music. We perform the score alongside a screening of the original 1929 film.

There will be no interval during the concert and the bar will be open throughout. Please note seating is on a first come, first served basis.

In partnership with Spitalfields Music and Village Underground Supported by Arts Council England & M&G Investments

Box Office: 020 7377 1362 spitalfieldsmusic.org.uk

Ebony Concerto Rhapsody in Blue (original dance band version) Suite from the Threepenny Opera Jazz Suite No 1 Prelude, Fugue and Riffs

Michael Collins conductor/clarinet Gwilym Simcock piano We perform music written for some of the biggest jazz names of the 1930s and 1940s: American jazz clarinettists Benny Goodman and Woody Herman, and the band leader Paul Whiteman – together with Kurt Weill’s music for his Threepenny Opera and Shostakovich’s first Jazz Suite.

Benny Goodman and Woody Herman both commissioned the leading classical composers of their day to write music for their jazz bands – Goodman working with Leonard Bernstein and Herman with Igor Stravinsky.

We are joined by leading jazz pianist Gwilym Simcock for a performance of George Gershwin’s timeless Rhapsody in Blue, in the original version composed for Paul Whiteman’s dance band.

Box Office: 020 7730 4500 cadoganhall.com

Pre concert talk at 6pm looking at the impact of the Cold War on European and American cultural identity.

Free, no booking required

With thanks to our partner venues and organisations and those who have generously supported this series.

20 13

5

OC TO BE R

Britten and Copland wrote their clarinet concertos for the American ‘King of Swing’, Benny Goodman, with Britten’s original (unfinished) score impounded by US Immigration in 1941. It was eventually finished by Colin Matthews. Britten’s Serenade for Tenor, Horn and Strings was composed in 1947 and was one of the first pieces he wrote on his return from wartime America. Setting English poems on the ideas of night, sleep and the ‘cloak of evil’, it shares similar themes with Shostakovich’s Fourteenth Symphony, which was written as a creative response to the Soviet invasion of Czechoslovakia in 1968. A sombre piece, filled with imagery of death and destruction, it was dedicated to Benjamin Britten who gave the Western premiere in 1970.

*limited availability

-3 1

conductor/clarinet horn soprano tenor bass

Programme details correct at time of going to print. City of London Sinfonia reserves the right to amend programme and performer details in exceptional circumstances.

SE PT EM BE R

Michael Collins Stephen Stirling Evelina Dobracheva Ronan Busfield Graeme Broadbent

CLS FIVER (16-25 years & students) £5* register at cls.co.uk/CLS-FIVER for tickets

27

Britten Serenade for Tenor, Horn and Strings Britten (arr. Colin Matthews) Movements for a Clarinet Concerto (2nd movt) Copland Clarinet Concerto Shostakovich Symphony No.14

Series Concessions available for children (under 16 years old), registered disabled, job seekers and groups. Check availability with relevant box office.

HO CO T TU LD NE WA S R

Friday 27 September 2013 7.30 – 9.30pm Queen Elizabeth Hall, Southbank Centre, SE1 8XX £28, £21, £15, £10

Concert information (not box office) 020 7621 2800 cls.co.uk/Hot-Tunes

CLS FIVER

Music frOm acrOss the IrOn Curtain

Talk to us /cityoflondonsinfonia

In partnership with the Forum for European Philosophy

Part of the Southbank Centre’s year-long festival inspired by Alex Ross’ book The Rest is Noise

Box Office: 0844 847 9910 southbankcentre.co.uk

/CityLdnSinfonia

Promoter: City of London Sinfonia, Piano House, 9 Brighton Terrace, London, SW9 8DJ. Registered Charity: 286818

Tickets from £10 Southbank Centre Village Underground Cadogan Hall

cls.co.uk/Hot-Tunes