l a v s 2013 i t e er s u b fetin ecem e n D h t co er – b m te p Se
the soundtrack of the 20th century
Inspired by Alex Ross’ book The Rest Is Noise
Southbank Centre would like to thank its principal orchestra partner
Buzz Aldrin salutes the US flag on the moon © NASA Apollo Archive
‘ I wanted to tell the story of the 20th century through its music.’ Alex Ross, author of The Rest Is Noise Welcome to the second half of Southbank Centre’s year-long festival The Rest Is Noise. The first half of 2013 has seen us take a fascinating journey through the music of the 20th century. We started at 1900, when the world was on the brink of imploding into the First World War, and travelled through to the end of the Second World War, just as America’s star was on the rise and the Iron Curtain drew an impenetrable barrier across a shattered Europe. During this time we provided a map for audiences that included talks, films, debates and concerts to help explain the relationship between classical music and the social and political changes of the last century. This approach, inspired by Alex Ross’ book The Rest Is Noise, has allowed us to see the music of that period ‘in the round’ – bringing in the history of science, technology, philosophical and political movements. Now we continue... We start with a look at the greatest British composer of the century, Benjamin Britten, and how he emerged as a composer in a nation recovering from war. This investigation of the post-war world continues in October, as we turn our attention to Europe and the generation of avant-garde composers who wanted to make a clean break from history. In the autumn, we explore the social revolution of the 1960s and the distinctly spiritual music that flowered alongside Cold-War tensions in the 1970s. And finally, as we move closer to the year end, we focus on America again – the rise of Hollywood, musical theatre and Minimalism. We conclude with the new world order at the end of the century – globalisation, the rise of the internet and the end of the ‘isms’. This year-long festival has only been made possible by our partnerships with our resident orchestras; in particular our principal orchestra partner the London Philharmonic Orchestra plus significant contributions from one of our other resident orchestras, the London Sinfonietta. However, orchestras from right across the UK are also involved in addition to many international orchestras, music colleges, youth ensembles and school programmes, all of which have helped to create this huge and rich repertoire, plus the BBC, Open University and many writers, conductors, lecturers and film curators. It has been a personal desire of mine to see this wonderful music, long misunderstood and sometimes neglected, opened up to an audience that is culturally curious. This is a festival as much about discussion and debate as it is about music. Do share your experiences and views with us. Jude Kelly, Artistic Director, Southbank Centre
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Even if the composers of the last century claim to have written ‘music’ rather than a reflection of events, there can be no doubt that their work is a product of the socio-political environment of which they were a part and that we sense prescience as well as inspiration. And what a century it was, from Richard Strauss to John Adams. We are delighted to be continuing our roller-coaster ride which started back in January, and takes us from Romanticism through Nationalism, the Second Viennese School, the Darmstadt school, electronic music, Minimalism, Hollywood and musicals to pop culture. There is something for every listener in this great festival and we are proud to be a part of it. Timothy Walker, Chief Executive & Artistic Director London Philharmonic Orchestra
one century one year An overview of the festival
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the story so far January – June 2013
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Britten’s Centenary September 2013
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Post-WAR World Breaking with the past October 2013
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1960s Counterculture and revolution October 2013
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Politics and Spirituality in the late 20th Century November 2013
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superpower Hollywood, Minimalism and musical theatre November 2013
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New World Order No more rules December 2013
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one CENTURY, One YEAR What do two world wars, votes for women and a moon landing sound like? Here comes the 20th century.
ART OF FEAR
PARIS
HERE COMES THE 20TH CENTURY
February A trip to see daring ballet and to the Salons of Paris in the Roaring Twenties. Key work: Stravinsky The Rite of Spring
January The festival got underway with a weekend exploring the early 1900s. Key work: Schoenberg String Quartet No.2
May How composers trod precarious paths between artistic freedom and persecution. Key work: Shostakovich Symphony No.7
AMERICA
March We heard Jazz, Broadway and a new American sound. Key work: Duke Ellington A Tone Parallel to Harlem
1900 1910 1920 1930 1940
The Rise of NATIONaliSm February We discovered national identities through folk song. Key work: Bartók Romanian Folk Dances
BERLIN IN THE ’20S & ’30S
March Biting satire, provocative opera and cabaret. Key work: Weill The Threepenny Opera
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SUPERPOWER
November Live performances of film music and contemporary masters Steve Reich, John Cage and Philip Glass. Key work: Glass Music In 12 Parts Page 38
POST-WAR WORLD
October Experience the literature and music written after the world had changed forever. Key work: Stockhausen Gesang der Jünglinge Page 20
1960S
October Get to grips with the Civil Rights Movement and a rapidly changing society. Key work: Berio Sinfonia Page 27
NEW WORLD ORDER
December What’s next for classical music? Discuss what the future holds. Key work: Adams El Niño Page 45
1950 1960 1970 1980 1990
BRITTEN’S CENTENARY September Celebrate the British composer’s finest pieces. Key work: Britten Peter Grimes Page 15
POLITICS AND SPIRITUALITY
November Peer behind the Iron Curtain and eavesdrop on music from the Soviet Bloc. Key work: Gubaidulina Offertorium Page 33
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THE STORY SO FAR January – June 2013
Between January and June this year, in six weekends of talks and debates and over 50 concerts, we listened to the soundtrack to the first half of the 20th century. Here are some highlights:
January Baroness Shirley Williams opened the festival with a lecture on the tumultuous events of the 20th century. Alex Ross, author of The Rest Is Noise, gave his first keynote address setting the scene for the moment when classical music changed forever. Marcus du Sautoy explained Einstein’s Theory of Special Relativity.
February From Tony Benn on the founding of the Labour party, to Shirley Collins, Godmother of English Folk, and Pete Flood from Bellowhead, we welcomed people from across the cultural spectrum to dig deeper into how folk and national identity shaped the music and history of the early 20th century.
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February Stravinsky’s The Rite of Spring was explored through talks and a performance by the London Philharmonic Orchestra. Jonathan Cross spoke about the impact that Stravinsky’s arrival in Paris had both on the composer and the city. Kevin Jackson took us through 1922, the year that Ulysses and The Waste Land were published.
March We delved into the tensions and contradictions at the heart of Weimar Germany – especially in its music. Cabaret star Meow Meow discussed Kurt Weill’s legacy before singing in a performance of The Threepenny Opera with the London Philharmonic Orchestra, Vladimir Jurowski and Sir John Tomlinson, which received five-star reviews. Lisa Appignanesi explored the history of cabaret, Yvonne Sherratt uncovered Hitler’s philosophers and Liza Minnelli gave a one-night-only performance that raised the roof of Royal Festival Hall.
Emmeline Pankhurst addresses a crowd Composer Béla Bartók © akg-images/De Agostini Picture Library Josephine Baker in a banana skirt for a Folies Bergère production, 1970 © Walery, Fox Hitler at the Nuremberg Rally 1935 © The Print Collection / Heritage Images
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February – April By 1950 America had emerged as a world power in music, culture and politics. We examined America’s legacies from all angles. Bonnie Greer talked about the rise of Black music, and Paul Gambaccini discussed the ‘Invisible Men’ – African-American composers. We heard the BBC Concert Orchestra combine with Nu Civilisation Orchestra to play Duke Ellington.
April – June The final chapter of this first half of the year covered the oppression and manipulation experienced during the regimes of Hitler and Stalin. Will Self spoke about the influence of great modernist writer Kafka, Orlando Figes explored life under Soviet rule and the City of Birmingham Symphony Orchestra performed Shostakovich’s Leningrad Symphony, a universal symbol of hope composed during the Siege of Leningrad.
Charlie Chaplin in Modern Times © Roy Export S.A.S, Marlene Dietrich as Lola, 1930 © AFP /Getty Images
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THE STORY SO FAR: in pictures Learning to tap dance Royal Northern College of Music perform Schoenberg’s Pierrot Lunaire
All images Š Ben Larpent
Alex Ross and Jude Kelly kick off the festival in January
Tony Benn discusses the founding of the Labour Party
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SEPTEMBER
1945 – 1975 A weekend of talks and films, plus concerts in September and October which uncover post-war Britain through Benjamin Britten’s music. ‘I believe in roots, in associations, in backgrounds, in personal relationships’, Benjamin Britten once said, and there is perhaps no composer whose work has so powerfully grappled with ideas of place, identity and community. The windswept fishing town of Aldeburgh was the place Britten called home. His works channel the rhythm of the waves, the vast expanse of the ocean, and the sense of isolation and marginalisation, feelings as English in their way as the imperial certainties of earlier times. Britten was a steely individual – in the fraught Cold War atmosphere after the war, Britten’s pacifism, his socialist leanings and his homosexuality contributed to his own sense of being an outsider. While Britten was fully engaged with the avant-garde music of his time, his constant belief in the duty of the musician to communicate to the modern audience led to his music being viewed with suspicion by some.
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‘ I believe in roots, in associations, in backgrounds, in personal relationships’ benjamin britten Britten’s dark and brooding operatic masterpiece Peter Grimes tells the story of a fisherman driven to a watery grave by a claustrophobic and oppressive village community. First staged a month after VE day, it secured Britten’s status as one of the greatest composers of the 20th century. As Britten changed the face of British opera, we look at the other changes that were occurring in post-war Britain from the Windrush Generation to the National Health Service.
Residents of Hawes Steet Byker prepare to celebrate the Queen’s Coronation, June 1953 © Trinity Mirror / Mirropix / Alamy Benjamin Britten on the beach at Aldeburgh © britten100.org / Photo: Hans Wild
A Nursing Sister from Queen Charlotte’s Hospital with the latest Oxygen tent. 1948 © TopFoto
SEPTEMBER
SATURDAY 28 – SUNDAY 29 SEPTEMBER weekend events from 10am Music that moved a nation. In the fraught atmosphere of the Cold War, despite Britten’s pacifism, socialist leanings and homosexuality, he became one of the most celebrated composers of his time. However, his tonal, communicative music was viewed as suspicious by some of his avant-garde contemporaries. We look at his remarkable work in the context of post-war Britain.
IN DEPTH DISCUSSIONS
BREAKFAST WITH Britten
• Alex Ross, author of The Rest Is Noise,
Grab a coffee and delve inside the music of The Rest Is Noise festival. Composer John Browne leads a fun and informal workshop about Britten’s Peter Grimes.
• Alexandra Harris, author of Romantic
LIVE MUSIC
looks at how composers navigated the fractured cultural universe at the end of the Second World War.
Moderns, discusses how George Piper and Graham Sutherland returned to landscapes after the Second World War with artist George Shaw.
• Paul Kildea, author of Benjamin Britten:
Noye’s Fludde – Britten’s colourful opera inspired by Noah and his ark.
• The arrival of the SS Empire Windrush
LISTEN TO THIS
BITES: YOUR WHISTLE-STOP TOUR
FILM SCREENINGS
in June 1948 marked the beginning of post-war mass migration. Paul Gilroy, Lawrence Scott and Susheila Nasta discuss The Windrush Generation.
15 minutes on some of the need-to-know topics of the era.
Don’t know where to start? Michael Berkeley, broadcaster, composer and Britten’s godson, brings Britten’s music to life in these beginner’s guides.
Including our feature film Moonrise Kingdom by Wes Anderson.
• We look back at the life and labours
of the National Health Service, now almost 60 years old.
• Following the destruction of the
Second World War there was a great rise in pacifism across Britain.
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• Imogen Holst – the overlooked but
talented composer who travelled the world, helped composers exiled by fascism and was an invaluable support to Britten.
BFI Southbank presents a season focused on Britten on Film and TV in September and October bfi.org.uk/britten
• The Angry Young Men included writers John Osborne and Kingsley Amis in their ranks. But who were they angry with and why?
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A Life in the Twentieth Century gives a survey of this original and complex mind.
Britten and Russia – Alexander Ivashkin and Andrew Zolinsky present a programme of Britten’s cello music inspired by the composer’s friendship with Shostakovich and Rostropovich.
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BRITTEN’s CENTENARY Weekend Events Timetable
Create your own timetable for the weekend, going from keynote talks to intimate discussions and film screenings
Saturday 28 September TIME EVENT
CONTENT
Throughout the day Film Screenings Short films and documentaries relating to Britten. 10am – 11am
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Breakfast with Britten Grab a coffee and delve into Britten’s Peter Grimes.
11.15am – 12.15pm Shirley Williams on Britten’s Britain
A lecture surveying Britain in the aftermath of war.
12.30pm – 1.30pm Listen to This
Get to know the music of Benjamin Britten.
Paul Kildea on Benjamin Britten
Noise Bites The need-to-know topics of the era.
2pm – 3pm
Noye’s Fludde A performance of Britten’s opera inspired by Noah and his ark.
2.30pm – 3.30pm
Listen to This
Please see 12.30pm.
Transistors & Early Computing
The rapid development of these genre-changing innovations.
Noise Bites
The need-to-know topics of the era.
Bradley Bulletins Professor Paul Banks reflects on the engaging diaries of post-war concert-goer Lionel Bradley.
2.30pm – 4.30pm
Gamelan Workshop*
4pm – 5pm Britten & Children
The author of a major Britten biography gives a keynote talk.
Try the instrument which inspired Britten. A talk on the complex subject of Britten and children chaired by Susie Orbach alongside author John Bridcut.
Noye’s Fludde
Bradley Bulletins Please see 2.30pm.
5pm – 7pm
Gamelan Workshop*
Try the instrument which inspired Britten.
5.30pm – 6.30pm
Royal College of Music
Pre-Concert Performance.
7pm – 10pm
Britten’s Peter Grimes* London Philharmonic Orchestra, Vladimir Jurowski.
Please see 2pm.
Full, extended details of talks, topics, speakers and timings plus additional events will be available online.
* Not included in the Day or Weekend Pass
Sunday 29 September TIME EVENT
CONTENT
Throughout the day Film Screenings Short films and documentaries relating to Britten. 10am – 11am Alex Ross on A New Cultural Universe 11am – 1pm
Gamelan Workshop*
11.30am – 12.30pm Mark Ravenhill: Britten & Theatre
A whirlwind survey of music from 1945 to 1980. Try the instrument which inspired Britten. Leading director explores the theatricality of Britten’s music and opera.
Paul Gilroy, Lawrence Scott Discussion on the impact of the Windrush’s & Susheila Nasta arrival in 1948, both for art and society. Discussion on the cultural and social aspirations of this forward-looking moment.
1pm – 2pm Britten’s Poets
Lavinia Greenlaw talks about the poetry which Britten set to music during his life.
Noise Bites
Stephen Johnson The War Requiem, Coventry Cathedral and Reconciliation.
3pm – 4pm
Noise Bites
Visual Arts Talk: Post-War Pastoral
The need-to-know topics of the era.
The need-to-know topics of the era. Alexandra Harris and George Shaw discuss the work of George Piper and Graham Sutherland.
3pm – 5pm
Aurora Orchestra: Zeitgeist - Britten Films*
The composer’s complete documentary film scores alongside the original films.
Gamelan Workshop*
Try the instrument which inspired Britten.
5.30pm – 6.30pm Britten and Russia Moonrise Kingdom
A concert by Alexander Ivashkin (cello) and Andrew Zolinsky (piano). Wes Anderson’s 2012 feature film.
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Festival of Britain
8pm – 9.30pm
SEPTEMBER – october
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SEPTEMBER
BRITTEN’S CENTENARY: the concerts FRIDAY 27 SEPTEMBER 2013
Britten Solo
Young musicians perform some of Britten’s music for solo instruments. Britten Six Metamorphoses after Ovid for solo oboe; Nocturnal after John Dowland for guitar, Op.70; Suite for solo cello No.3, Op.87 Musicians from the Royal College of Music
Central Bar Foyer at Royal Festival Hall, 1pm FREE FRIDAY 27 SEPTEMBER 2013
Brigitte Beraha & Friends: Remembering Britten
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Music from the jazz and Latin repertoires and originals written for the occasion inspired by Britten. Plus re-interpretations of some of his music. Brigitte Beraha, Steve Fishwick, Ross Stanley, Paul Clarvis
The Front Room at Queen Elizabeth Hall, 5.30pm FREE
Winston Churchill walks through the ruins of Coventry Cathedral © Captain Horton
FRIDAY 27 SEPTEMBER 2013
Music from Across the Iron Curtain
Music from three friends, featuring Shostakovich’s creative response to the Warsaw Pact invasion of Czechoslovakia. Plus a rare chance to hear a Britten premiere. Britten Serenade for tenor, horn and strings Britten Second Movement from Movements for a Clarinet Concerto compl. Colin Matthews arr. Joseph Phibbs (London premiere) Copland Clarinet Concerto Shostakovich Symphony No.14 City of London Sinfonia, Michael Collins, Stephen Stirling, Evelina Dobracheva, Ronan Busfield, Graeme Broadbent
Queen Elizabeth Hall, 7.30pm £10 - £28 FREE pre-concert event, 6pm Queen Elizabeth Hall A talk about the impact of the Cold War on European and American cultural identity. In partnership with the Forum for European Philosophy.
SUNDAY 29 SEPTEMBER 2013
A concert for families. Come and join Noye, his family, a cast of animals and musicians from the London Philharmonic Orchestra as they escape from the great flood.
Cello music inspired by the composer’s friendship with Shostakovich and Rostropovich.
Britten: Noye’s Fludde
Also on Saturday 12 October. The Clore Ballroom at Royal Festival Hall, 2pm & 4pm FREE
Britten & Russia
Britten Suite No.3 for solo cello, Op.87; Cello Sonata in C, Op.65 Alexander Ivashkin, Andrew Zolinsky
Purcell Room at Queen Elizabeth Hall, 5.30pm Free entry for Day or Weekend Pass holders WEDNESDAY 2 OCTOBER 2013
SATURDAY 28 SEPTEMBER 2013
From Darkness to Light
One of the landmark operas of the 20th century, a chilling tale of marginalisation and persecution.
Written for Mstislav Rostropovich, Britten’s inspiring Cello Symphony is music of fraught intensity but also of optimism. Listen out for the sounds of Gamelan in The Prince of the Pagodas.
Peter Grimes
Britten Peter Grimes – opera in 3 acts
Royal Festival Hall, 7pm £9 - £65 FREE pre-concert event, 5.30pm Royal Festival Hall A performance by musicians from the Royal College of Music of Britten’s String Quartet No.3 and Phantasy. concert playlist - see page 46 SUNDAY 29 SEPTEMBER 2013
Zeitgeist: Britten Films Britten’s complete surviving film scores. With narration from Samuel West, these vivid portraits of 1930s Britain cover topics from postage stamps to pacifism. Film screening with live orchestral accompaniment.
Britten Night mail; The Way to the sea; Men behind the meters; The Tocher; Coal face; The King’s stamp; God’s chillun; Peace of Britain; Sixpenny telegram (London premiere of the complete scores) Aurora Orchestra, Nicholas Collon, Samuel West, Finchley Children’s Music Group
Queen Elizabeth Hall, 3pm £10
Britten The Prince of the Pagodas Suite (Prelude & dances); Suite on English Folk Tunes (A Time There Was ...); Nocturne; Cello Symphony London Philharmonic Orchestra, Vladimir Jurowski, Mark Padmore, Truls Mørk
Royal Festival Hall, 7.30pm £9 - £65 SATURDAY 12 OCTOBER 2013
Britten: War Requiem Britten’s reaction to the damage sustained by Coventry during the war was his monumental War Requiem, which he hoped ‘would be remembered longest’ after his own death. Britten War Requiem London Philharmonic Orchestra, Vladimir Jurowski, Neville Creed, Tatiana Monogarova, Ian Bostridge, Matthias Goerne, London Philharmonic Choir, Trinity Boys Choir
Royal Festival Hall, 7.30pm £9 - £65 FREE pre-concert event, 6pm Royal Festival Hall A performance by musicians from the Royal College of Music of Britten’s Les Illuminations and Variations on a Theme of Frank Bridge.
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London Philharmonic Orchestra, Vladimir Jurowski, Stuart Skelton, Pamela Armstrong, Alan Opie, Pamela Helen Stephen, Malin Christensson, Claire Ormshaw, Michael Colvin, Brindley Sherratt, Jean Rigby, Mark Stone, Brian Galliford, Jonathan Veira, Daniel Slater, London Voices
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SATURDAY 28 SEPTEMBER 2013
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1945 – 1960 Through a weekend of talks and films plus concerts throughout October, we lay bare the legacy of the Second World War.
The atomic bombs dropped on Hiroshima and Nagasaki in 1945 mirrored the ruins of war-torn Europe. This dark vision of destruction by new technology, combined with the liberation of Nazi concentration camps, showed humanity as fragile and vulnerable to annihilation. Western Europe’s victory was achieved at such great cost that it often felt like defeat, and with the crushing of Germany, nations quickly turned against each other in mutual suspicion. Thus began the Cold War between the USA and the Soviet Union, and their allies and satellites – a period of anxiety and expense.
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a complete rejection of all that had gone before The shattered landscape that greeted all artists after the war, including composers, was even bleaker thanks to the way the arts had been manipulated as propaganda. With the past tainted, there was no option but to start from scratch, with a complete rejection of all that had gone before. A new generation of composers, led by the fiercely brilliant young Boulez and Stockhausen, set about creating innovative, influential and radically new music out of the ruins of post-war Europe.
East German policemen building the Berlin Wall, 1963 © Ullsteinbild / Topfoto Luigi Nono and Nuria Schoenberg, 1950 Archive Luigi Nono, Venice © Courtesy Luigi Nono Heirs
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SATURDAY 5 – SUNDAY 6 OCTOBER weekend events from 10am A new generation. Innovation. Radicalisation. Electronics. In the six years of the Second World War, art, music and technology had been used to manipulate and destroy. Composers saw no option but to start from scratch and set about creating radical new music in the aftermath of war. This weekend we look at the music that came from the ashes of war. A new, post-atomic world had emerged.
IN DEPTH DISCUSSIONS
• From the War to the Wall: Donald Sassoon from the University of London guides us through the political tensions that led to the building of the Berlin Wall.
• Nuria Schoenberg-Nono, Schoenberg’s
• The battle between the intellectuals and the masses – literary critic John Carey enters the fray.
• Frances Stonor Saunders asks ‘Who paid
the piper?’ in this history of the covertly CIA-funded Congress for Cultural Freedom.
• Author and broadcaster Jonathan
Meades discusses Le Corbusier – who thought he could reshape mankind through their houses.
• Journalist and critic Nicholas Lezard
and author Yvonne Sherratt discuss the (sometimes biting) musical criticism of Theodor Adorno.
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15 minutes on some of the need-to-know topics of the era.
• We look at architect Oscar Niemeyer
and his gravity defying buildings with a socialist ideology.
• ‘It is up to you to be Lacanians if you wish. I am a Freudian.’ What was the impact of Jaques Lacan?
• Albert Camus: the literary and
philosophical great who was forced to grapple with his own colonial past.
• ‘A necessary evil’? What was the impact of the creation of the Atomic bomb?
BREAKFAST WITH STOCKHAUSEN
Grab a coffee and delve inside the music of The Rest Is Noise festival. Composer Fraser Trainer leads a fun and informal workshop on Stockhausen’s Gesang der Jünglinge on Saturday.
LISTEN TO THIS
Don’t know where to start? Let Guardian journalist Tom Service bring the music of Post-War World to life in these beginner’s guides.
LIVE MUSIC
Students from Guildhall School of Music & Drama perform music by Xenakis and Cage.
FILM SCREENINGS
Including our feature film: Stanley Kubrick’s Cold War classic Dr Strangelove.
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daughter, lets us into the world of the Darmstadt Summer School – the hotbed of new music where her husband Luigi Nono was a leading light. She is in conversation with visionary composer Helmut Lachenmann who was a student of Nono in this event chaired by Christopher Fox.
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Weekend Events Timetable Create your own timetable for the weekend, going from keynote talks to intimate discussions and film screenings
Saturday 5 October TIME EVENT
CONTENT
Throughout the day Electronic Music Hub
The Royal College of Music presents some of the early classics of electronic music.
Film Screenings
Short films and documentaries from the period.
10am – 11am Breakfast with Grab a coffee and delve into Stockhausen Stockhausen’s Gesang der Jünglinge. 11.15am – 12.15pm From the War to the Wall 12.30pm – 1.30pm
Opening lecture by Donald Sassoon.
Tom Service: Listen to This Get to know the music of Post-War World.
Frances Stonor Saunders The author of Who Paid the Piper? explores the Congress for Cultural Freedom which was covertly funded by the CIA.
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Robert Worby
A talk on the birth of electronic music.
Noise Bites
The need-to-know topics of the era.
2.30pm – 3.30pm
Tom Service: Listen to This Please see 12.30pm.
Jonathan Meades: Le Corbusier & Modern Architecture
The leading broadcaster on architecture and place champions the bravura work of a modernist master.
Darkness Spoken A reading and discussion focusing on the letters of poets Paul Celan and Ingeborg Bachmann, written in the shadow of Auschwitz.
4pm – 5pm
Robert Worby
Please see 12.30pm.
Noise Bites
The need-to-know topics of the era.
Zygmunt Bauman – Modernity and the Holocaust
One of the great contemporary philosophers examines how the Holocaust redefined our sense of the ‘modern’.
6pm – 7pm
Christopher Fox
Pre-concert talk, on Stockhausen and Boulez.
7.30pm – 9.30pm
Stockhausen & Boulez: Modern Masterpieces*
Franck Ollu, Colin Currie, Nicolas Hodges, Hilary Summers, Members of Aurora Orchestra
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Sunday 6 October TIME EVENT
CONTENT
Throughout the day Electronic Music Hub
The Royal College of Music presents some of the early classics of electronic music.
Film Screenings
10.30am – 11.30am Nuria Schoenberg-Nono Helmut Lachenmann & Christopher Fox 12 noon – 1pm
Noise Bites
Ian Buruma
Short films and documentaries from the period. Nuria Schoenberg-Nono recounts her life surrounded by legendary musical figures, with composers Helmut Lachenmann and Christopher Fox. The need-to-know topics of the era. The writer surveys post-war politics based on his book Year Zero: The History of 1945.
Primo Levi A discussion about the life and work of this writer who survived Auschwitz.
1pm – 2pm
Guildhall School of Music & Drama
Performance of Xenakis and Cage.
2pm – 3pm
Noise Bites
The need-to-know topics of the era.
Black Mountain College A celebration of the artistic experimentation in this unique environment.
3pm – 4pm
Guildhall School of Music & Drama
3pm – 5pm
Tamara Stefanovich* Piano recital of music by Ligeti, Stockhausen, Messiaen and Boulez.
Please see 1pm.
4pm – 5pm John Carey
‘High’ and ‘low’ art in post-war Britain; who produced art and for which audiences?
The Geometry of Fear
Explore how sculpture was re-shaped in the aftermath of the war.
Introduction to Adorno Yvonne Sherratt and Nicholas Lezard explore Adorno’s philosophy and music criticism after the Holocaust.
5.15pm – 5.45pm
Tom Service
6pm – 8pm
Stockhausen’s Gruppen* London Sinfonietta and Royal Academy of Music.
8pm – 9.30pm
Dr Strangelove
An introduction to Stockhausen’s Gruppen.
Stanley Kubrick’s 1964 feature film.
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POST-WAR WORLD: the concerts FRIDAY 4 OCTOBER 2013
SUNDAY 6 OCTOBER 2013
Music of delicate, seductive beauty performed on a piano that has been altered to sound like a percussion ensemble. Curated by Joanna Macgregor, the Academy’s Head of Piano.
Radical and inventive percussion sounds from Xenakis and Cage.
Cage for Prepared Piano
Cage Sonatas I – IV; First Interlude; Sonatas V – VIII; Second Interlude; Third Interlude; Sonatas IX – XII; Fourth Interlude; Sonatas XIII, XIV/XV ‘Gemini’, XVI Royal Academy of Music
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Music from two composers denounced by Stalin’s henchman Zhdanov. Prokofiev Sinfonia concertante in E minor for cello and orchestra, Op.125 Shostakovich Symphony No.10 in E minor Bournemouth Symphony Orchestra, Kirill Karabits, Alisa Weilerstein
Royal Festival Hall, 7.30pm £9 - £65 FREE pre-concert talk, 6.15pm Royal Festival Hall Marina Frolova-Walker discusses Prokofiev and Shostakovich in Stalin’s post-war Russia. SATURDAY 5 OCTOBER 2013
Modern Masterpieces Three classic pieces that changed the face of modern music forever. Stockhausen Gesang der Jünglinge; Kontakte Boulez Le marteau sans maître
Music of Change Xenakis Psappha Cage 2nd Construction Xenakis Okho Cage Credo in US
Guildhall School of Music & Drama Percussion Ensemble, Julian Warburton
The Clore Ballroom at Royal Festival Hall, 1pm & 3pm FREE SUNDAY 6 OCTOBER 2013
Startling Soundworld Powerful piano music which evokes constellations, bird song and the magic of mathematics. Ligeti Musica ricercata Stockhausen Klavierstück IX Messiaen Excerpts from Catalogue d’oiseaux Boulez Sonata No.2 Tamara Stefanovich
Queen Elizabeth Hall, 3pm £10 - £35 SUNDAY 6 OCTOBER 2013
Stockhausen: Gruppen Three orchestras create a vortex of sound which spins around the concert hall. Stockhausen Gruppen Nono Canti per 13; Polifonica-monodia-ritmica Stockhausen Gruppen London Sinfonietta, Royal Academy of Music Manson Ensemble, Martyn Brabbins
Royal Festival Hall, 6pm £15 - £25
Members of Aurora Orchestra, Franck Ollu, Colin Currie, Nicolas Hodges, Hilary Summers, Sound Intermedia
Queen Elizabeth Hall, 7.30pm £10 - £22 concert playlist - see page 46
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WEDNESDAY 23 OCTOBER 2013
Shostakovich’s most intimately revealing music written in the shadow of Stalin.
Poulenc’s setting of the 13th-century poem of mourning and salvation, Stabat mater.
Shostakovich String Quartets: No.7 in F sharp minor, Op.108; No.8 in C minor, Op.110; No.12 in D flat, Op.133
Poulenc Piano Concerto Prokofiev Symphony No.7 Poulenc Stabat mater
Borodin Quartet
London Philharmonic Orchestra, Yannick Nézet-Séguin, Alexandre Tharaud, Kate Royal, London Philharmonic Choir
Anguish and Insights
Queen Elizabeth Hall, 3pm £10 - £35
The Sacred and Satirical
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SUNDAY 20 OCTOBER 2013
Royal Festival Hall, 7.30pm £9 - £65 FREE pre-concert event, 6.15pm Royal Festival Hall Dr Caroline Potter from Kingston University looks at the life and works of Francis Poulenc.
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Swing through the 1960s in this weekend of talks and films plus concerts throughout October.
‘The Sixties’ is not just a decade in history. It is a collection of ideas, images and events which signified profound changes in politics and society. The middle-class youth of Europe and America were alive with protest – against the war in Vietnam, against racism, sexism and nuclear weaponry – culminating in the 1968 uprisings in Paris, Prague and elsewhere. There was a revolution in social attitudes – the contraceptive pill allowed women unprecedented control over their own fertility, and female attendance at colleges and universities subsequently rocketed. The Civil Rights movement’s campaigns of civil disobedience achieved great gains, including the 1964 Civil Rights Act, and drew strength from mass events such as the march on Washington of 1963.
a revolution in social attitudes With a look towards the rebellion, sexual liberation and drug experimentation that characterised psychedelic culture, contemporary music entered its carnivalesque, topsy-turvy, through-the-looking-glass period. It also drew closer to popular music, which was rapidly acquiring a seriousness and depth to rival classical music, and an influence to surpass it. When the Beatles released Sgt. Pepper’s Lonely Hearts Club Band in 1967, they put Karlheinz Stockhausen in amongst their cultural heroes on the cover.
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SATURDAY 26 – SUNDAY 27 OCTOBER The Pill. Rebellion. Experimentation. Protest. Civil Rights. This weekend we look at the Vietnam protests, pop art, social change, the anti-nuclear movement, civil rights, the Profumo affair, the Beatles and maverick composers including Frank Zappa, Stockhausen and Bernstein.
IN DEPTH DISCUSSIONS
• Activist, scholar and revolutionary Angela Davis looks back on the enormous gains made during this decade of revolution.
• Zappa on Zappa. Gail Zappa speaks about her husband Frank, who was an iconoclast, a composer and a musician who defies categorisation.
• The Profumo Affair – was it extraordinary
• Tariq Ali, a leading figure of the
international Left, gives an eyewitness account of this eventful decade.
• Space scientist Maggie Aderin-Pocock
talks us through the race that put a man on the moon.
Grab a coffee and delve inside the music of The Rest Is Noise festival. Composer Rachel Leach leads a fun and informal workshop on Berio’s Sinfonia on Sunday.
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Don’t know where to start? Let our music experts bring the music of the 1960s to life in these beginner’s guides.
LIVE MUSIC
Stockhausen’s Stimmung. Hypnotic, hippy and immersive, Stockhausen’s Stimmung could only have been written in 1968.
Martin Luther King is explored in a new jazz collaboration between Chicago and London.
FILM SCREENINGS
Including the iconic Yellow Submarine and Heimat 2 in its 26-hour entirety.
BITES: YOUR WHISTLE-STOP TOUR
15 minutes on some of the need-to-know topics of the era.
• Intoxicating, stimulating, harmless? The rise and fall of LSD.
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• Coronation Street was first broadcast
in December 1960 and within six months was the most watched show on British TV. But why?
• 500,000 people in a field with Jimi
Hendrix? It can only be Woodstock, one of the defining moments of the 1960s.
Hippies at the Hyde Park ‘Love In’ 1967 © David Graves / Rex Features
• Did the founding of the Open University
in 1969 usher in a new era of openness in academia?
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or symptomatic of the eroded social morals of the 1960s? Historian and biographer Richard Davenport-Hines investigates.
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Weekend Events Timetable Create your own timetable for the weekend, going from keynote talks to intimate discussions and film screenings
Saturday 26 October
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Throughout the day Film Screenings
Heimat 2 and much more besides.
11am – 12 noon
Tariq Ali In this keynote talk the author and activist discusses a radical decade and key figures such as Henry Kissinger and Malcolm X.
12.30pm – 1.30pm
Stephen Montague: Get to know the music of the 1960s. Listen to This
The Real Mad Men
Andrew Cracknell gives an illustrated talk on ad men and the rise of the consumer society.
Noise Bites
The need-to-know topics of the era.
Pop Art
n overview of the transatlantic movement A which dominated the 1960s art world.
2.30pm – 3.30pm Maggie Aderin-Pocock: The Space Race
A talk on the science behind the ultimate Cold War rivalry.
Marina Frolova-Walker
Director of Studies in Music, Cambridge, discusses Shostakovich in the 1960s.
Noise Bites
The need-to-know topics of the era.
Brutalism and Southbank Centre
Love it or hate it, Brutalist architecture dominated the 1960s.
4pm – 5pm American Foreign Policy
We put the decade of the Cuban missile crisis and Vietnam War under the microscope.
Mods
Richard Weight, author of Mod: A Very British Style, celebrates a defining style movement.
May ’68 The student protests that turned into one of the most powerful moments of the 1960s.
5.30pm – 7pm
Where Dreams Lead A musical collaboration between NuCivilisation Jazz Orchestra and Chicago’s Live The Spirit.
7.30pm – 10pm
Denys Baptiste*
Now is the Time... Let Freedom Ring!
Shostakovich Symphony No.13*
London Philharmonic Orchestra, Yannick Nézet-Séguin.
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DAY PASs £15 WEEKEND pASS £25
* Not included in the Day or Weekend Pass
Sunday 27 October TIME EVENT
CONTENT
Throughout the day Film Screenings
Heimat 2 and much more besides.
10am – 11am
Breakfast with Berio
11.30am – 12.30pm The Beat Generation
Grab a coffee and delve into Berio’s Sinfonia. Explore the words and music of the 1960s underground.
Richard Davenport-Hines: A rip-roaring account of Britain at the time Scandal in the ’60s of the Profumo scandal. Dominic Murcott
Piano Phase / Purple Haze: classical music meets popular culture in the 1960s.
Noise Bites
The need-to-know topics of the era.
1.30pm – 2.30pm
Zappa on Zappa
Gail Zappa speaks about her husband Frank. The author of The Book of the Moon discusses the memorable year of 1969.
The Beatles
Discussion on the early years of the legendary band, based on new biographical material.
3pm – 4pm Joe Boyd
The producer and writer in conversation about the 1960s.
Ravi Shankar
A talk exploring the Indian music guru whose influence resonates to this day.
Noise Bites
4.30pm – 5.30pm Stockhausen
The need-to-know topics of the era. A performance of Stockhausen’s Stimmung for six musicians and six microphones.
Roger McGough & Brian Patten
The legendary Mersey poets read poems and celebrate Liverpool in the 1960s.
Who Were The Situationists?
Andrew Hussey explores the intellectual movement behind the uprisings of Paris ’68.
Noise Bites
The need-to-know topics of the era.
6.30pm – 7.30pm
Angela Davis Legendary civil rights activist looks back on a decade of revolution.
8pm – 9.30pm
Yellow Submarine
The classic 1968 Beatles feature film.
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1960s: the concerts MONDAY 7 OCTOBER 2013
FRIDAY 25 OCTOBER 2013
A screening of Stanley Kubrick’s seminal film with a live orchestral soundtrack.
Written in 1968, Sinfonia reflects the political and artistic heat of the time. Berio took quotations from Mahler, Brecht and student slogans from the barricades and added a requiem for Martin Luther King.
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Philharmonia Orchestra, Benjamin Wallfisch, Philharmonia Voices. Presented in association with the BFI (British Film Institute), with support from Warner Bros.
Royal Festival Hall, 7pm £22.50 - £55 FRIDAY 25 OCTOBER 2013
Berio: Sinfonia
Guarnieri Symphony No.4 (Brasilia) Bernstein Symphonic Dances from West Side Story Berio Sinfonia
1964
São Paulo Symphony Orchestra, Marin Alsop, The Swingle Singers
A musical snapshot of 1964 featuring pieces from Berio, Riley and John Coltrane.
Royal Festival Hall, 7.30pm £12 - £65
Trinity Laban Conservatoire of Music and Dance
Central Bar Foyer at Royal Festival Hall, 1pm FREE FRIDAY 25 OCTOBER 2013
Ornette Coleman Double Quartet Project Revisted A re-imagining of this classic double quartet. Julian Siegel, Musicians from Trinity Laban Conservatoire of Music and Dance, Chris Batchelor
The Front Room at Queen Elizabeth Hall, 5pm FREE
Part of Shell Classic International concert playlist - see page 46
SUNDAY 27 OCTOBER 2013
The results of an extraordinary international collaboration between The NuCivilisation Orchestra, Tomorrow’s Warriors, and some of Chicago’s leading jazz musicians, including Ernest Dawkins and Corey Wilkes. The music takes inspiration from and addresses the legacy of Martin Luther King.
Singers intone, recite and transform speech sounds in this hypnotic work for six singers and six microphones. Directed by Gregory Rose who directed performances in collaboration with Stockhausen.
The Clore Ballroom at Royal Festival Hall, 5.30pm FREE
Queen Elizabeth Hall, 4.30pm Free to Day and Weekend Pass holders
Where Dreams Lead
SATURDAY 26 OCTOBER 2013
Denys Baptiste’s Now is the Time... Let Freedom Ring!
Denys Baptiste Let Freedom Ring Denys Baptiste Band
Queen Elizabeth Hall, 7.30pm £17.50 - £22.50
Stockhausen Stimmung Musicians from Trinity Laban Conservatoire of Music and Drama, Gregory Rose
TUESDAY 29 OCTOBER 2013
200 Motels
A cult classic, banned from live performance at the time of its composition, is finally heard in its full glory. Frank Zappa 200 Motels (UK premiere) BBC Concert Orchestra, Southbank Sinfonia, Jurjen Hempel, Claron McFadden Please note, this event contains explicit material and is suitable for adult audiences aged 18+.
Royal Festival Hall, 7.30pm £25 - £45
SATURDAY 26 OCTOBER 2013
Shostakovich Speaks Out Shostakovich’s 13th Symphony features controversial texts depicting the Nazi massacre of Jews outside Kiev, presented with bold simplicity and tragic irony – his last major clash with the Soviet state. Dutilleux Tout un monde lointain ... (Cello Concerto) Shostakovich Symphony No.13 (Babi Yar) London Philharmonic Orchestra, Yannick Nézet-Séguin, Jean-Guihen Queyras, Mikhail Petrenko, Gentlemen of the London Philharmonic Choir
Royal Festival Hall, 7.30pm £9 - £65
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This large-scale jazz suite combines text by Ben Okri with live news footage from the 1960s. Commissioned in honour of Martin Luther King’s famous ‘I have a dream’ speech.
Tuning In
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1970 – 1989 Investigate this era of change through a weekend of talks and films plus concerts from 30 October – 30 November.
After Stalin’s death in 1953, life behind the Iron Curtain slowly began to change – and by the 1970s the Soviet Union under Brezhnev was beginning to modernise. Symbols of the West such as jeans and rock music became popular in Soviet Russia, signalling a new era of cautious thawing of Cold War relations. In the West, the 1970s and ’80s were fast-paced decades – first a recession then economic boom years, where advertising and communications technology rapidly accelerated the pace of modern life. To counter this materialism, some composers offered a return to spiritual values, and others resorted to overtly political music.
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the pace of modern life rapidly accelerated In the UK, war-damaged buildings remained empty and worsening economic conditions inspired new radical politics. Much of the religious music came from the Soviet Union and its satellite states, where religious belief had been marginalised under the official state atheism. More surprising were the commercial possibilities in this sacred music. The simple, consonant songs of lamentation in Henryk Górecki’s Third Symphony commemorate victims of the Holocaust and unexpectedly sold over a million recordings when it was released. No composer exemplified this turn to the sacred more than Estonian composer Arvo Pärt, whose work conveys an intense and profound spirituality. Hans Werner Henze gave voice to oppressed peoples and political radicals such as Cornelius Cardew, who tried to sweep aside the bourgeois norms of the musical establishment.
Pope John Paul II at old Yankee Stadium, New York, 1979 © Thomas J O’Halloran Sofia Gubaidulina © Dmitri N Smirnov
Mikhail Gorbachev © Ria Novosti
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SATURDAY 2 – SUNDAY 3 NOVEMBER
Boom. Bust. Globalisation. Religion. Hope. By the 1970s, western influences began to creep under the Iron Curtain. We explore this era of change, and seek to understand why it provoked a political and spiritual response from composers across the globe.
IN DEPTH DISCUSSIONS
• Author Karen Armstrong looks back at the global religious landscape of the 1970s and ’80s, which saw increasing secularism in the West and a return to the spiritual in the Communist bloc.
• Alain de Botton investigates how
spirituality fitted in to an increasingly consumerist world.
• We hear from Hanif Kureishi who
Grab a coffee and delve inside the music of The Rest Is Noise festival. Composer John Browne leads a fun and informal workshop on Gubaidulina’s Offertorium on Sunday.
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Don’t know where to start? Let Jonathan Cross bring the music of Politics and Spirituality to life in these beginner’s guides.
LIVE MUSIC
Gubaidulina’s String Quartets Nos.3 & 4 performed by the Ligeti String Quartet.
• A rare appearance from Sofia
A selection of Ode Machines from Cornelius Cardew’s Paragraph 5 of The Great Learning by Guildhall School of Music & Drama and James Weeks.
BITES: YOUR WHISTLE-STOP TOUR
Andriessen’s De Staat by Guildhall School of Music & Drama and excerpts from Hans Werner Henze’s Voices by musicians from the Royal College of Music.
Gubaidulina who discusses her serene and timeless music in person.
15 minutes on some of the need-to-know topics of the era.
• Kick-start the punk rock movement: it’s the Sex Pistols.
• Could the government of the Soviet
Union ever be open and transparent? We grapple with Glasnost.
FILM SCREENINGS
Including Solaris, Tarkovsky’s psychological space race drama and Kieślowski’s Dekalog in its 10-hour entirety.
• On 1 August 1981 MTV played its first video: Video killed the radio star and began a global phenomenon.
• As unemployment rose in 1970s Britain, a whole community of squatters reclaimed a bombed-out London for the homeless.
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captured all the tensions of Thatcherite Britain in his novel The Buddha of Suburbia.
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Create your own timetable for the weekend, going from keynote talks to intimate discussions and film screenings
Saturday 2 november
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CONTENT
Throughout the day Dekalog Screenings
10 short films by the groundbreaking Polish director Krzysztof Kieślowski based on the 10 Commandments.
11am – 12 noon
Catherine Merridale Historian and author of Red Fortress on how life behind the Iron Curtain began to change.
12.30pm – 1.30pm
Noise Bites
The need-to-know topics of the era.
Gubaidulina String Quartets
A performance of String Quartets No.s 3 & 4 by the Ligeti Quartet.
Cold War Poetry
Readings and insights into the writing of great Polish poets Zbigniew Herbert and Wislawa Szymborska.
Behind the Iron Curtain
Spirituality in Eastern Europe.
2.30pm – 3.30pm
Noise Bites
The need-to-know topics of the era.
Sofia Gubaidulina
The composer herself speaks about her work.
Listen to This
Get to know the music of Politics and Spirituality.
Art Behind The Iron Curtain The changes in visual arts after the fall of Stalin.
4pm – 5pm
Listen to This
Behind the Iron Curtain Please see 12.30pm.
5.30pm – 6.30pm
Alain De Botton The leading philosopher on spirituality and consumerism.
6pm – 7pm Pre-Concert Talk: Colour and Eternity 7.30pm – 10pm
Please see 2.30pm.
The Royal Philharmonic Society explores the music of Olivier Messiaen.
Olivier Messiaen’s From London Philharmonic Orchestra. the Canyons to the Stars*
Full, extended details of talks, topics, speakers and timings plus additional events will be available online.
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DAY PASs £15 WEEKEND pASS £25
Sunday 3 november TIME EVENT
CONTENT
Throughout the day Dekalog Screenings
10 short films by the groundbreaking Polish director Krzysztof Kieślowski based on the 10 Commandments.
10.30am – 11.30am Breakfast with Gubaidulina
Grab a coffee with John Browne and delve into Gubaidulina’s Offertorium.
12 noon – 1pm LPO FUNharmonics*
Hear Britten’s Young Person’s Guide to the Orchestra in this concert for families.
Noise Bites
The need-to-know topics of the era.
Hanif Kureishi
John Tilbury A talk on Cornelius Cardew, plus an extract from The Great Learning from Guildhall School of Music & Drama.
2pm – 3pm
Noise Bites
The need-to-know topics of the era.
Robert Winston: Test Tube Babies
Leading scientist recounts the historic birth of the first test tube baby.
Tensions in Thatcherite Britain.
An overview of the social and economic landscape shaped by Thatcherism.
Punk to Post-Punk
A journey through the pop music of the era combining rebellion and experimentation.
3.30pm – 4.30pm
Karen Armstrong
Spirituality in the Modern Age.
Tarkovsky
Layla Alexander-Garrat, his on-set translator, speaks about the legendary film director.
Lucy Robinson
Historian looks at one of the key political symbols of the era – Greenham Common.
5pm – 6pm
Andriessen’s De Staat & Henze’s Voices
7.30pm – 9.30pm
Works by Britten, Royal Liverpool Philharmonic Orchestra. Berio and Shostakovich*
8pm – 10.45pm
Solaris
Guildhall School Of Music & Drama and Royal College of Music.
Tarkovsky’s 1972 feature film.
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POLITICS AND SPIRITUALITY IN THE LATE 20TH CENTURY: the concerts WEDNESDAY 30 OCTOBER 2013
SATURDAY 2 NOVEMBER 2013
Schnittke’s moving, emotion-filled and energy-charged symphony reveals the paradoxes at the heart of modern life.
Gubaidulina said of herself: ‘I am the place where East meets West’. Today we hear two of her String Quartets.
Ligeti Lontano Lutosławski Cello Concerto Schnittke Symphony No.1
Gubaidulina Sting Quartets Nos.3 & 4
Schnittke’s Vision of the Future
London Philharmonic Orchestra, Michail Jurowski, Johannes Moser
Royal Festival Hall, 7.30pm £9 - £65 FREE pre-concert event, 6pm Royal Festival Hall Professor Alexander Ivashkin plays cello works by Lutosławski and Schnittke. FRIDAY 1 NOVEMBER 2013
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Transcendent Passion
Ligeti String Quartet
Purcell Room at Queen Elizabeth Hall, 12.30pm Free to Day and Weekend Pass Holders SATURDAY 2 NOVEMBER 2013
From the Canyons to the Stars Opulent music depicting the vibrant colour and spiritual grandeur of the American West. Messiaen Des canyons aux etoiles
From Out Of The East
London Philharmonic Orchestra, Christoph Eschenbach, Tzimon Barto, John Ryan
Contemplative chamber music from behind the Iron Curtain.
Royal Festival Hall, 7.30pm £9 - £65
Shostakovich String Quartet No.13 in Bb minor, Op.138 Gubaidulina Chaconne Schnittke Praeludium in Memoriam Dmitri Shostakovich Pärt Fratres
FREE pre-concert event, 6pm Royal Festival Hall Colour and Eternity: the Royal Philharmonic Society explores the music of Olivier Messiaen.
Musicians from the Royal College of Music
Sunday 3 November 2013
Central Bar Foyer at Royal Festival Hall, 1pm FREE FRIDAY 1 NOVEMBER 2013
Bruno Heinen Sextet: Stockhausen’s Tierkreis Reinvented Heinen’s jazz re-working of Tierkreis, a piece originally written for 12 music boxes, four of which have been in his family since he was born. Stockhausen Tierkreis arr. Bruno Heinen Bruno Heinen Sextet
The Front Room at Queen Elizabeth Hall, 5.30pm FREE
Great Learnings
John Tilbury introduces an experimental work based on Dà Xué which was written by Confucius and his pupils. Cardew extracts from Ode Machines (from Paragraph 5 of The Great Learning) Singers from the Guildhall School of Music & Drama, James Weeks
Weston Roof Pavilion at Royal Festival Hall, 12 noon Free to Day and Weekend Pass Holders
WEDNESDAY 27 NOVEMBER 2013
Politically driven works from two significant post-war European composers.
Music of anguished beauty from Polish compatriots Penderecki and Górecki.
Music Changes Things?
Polish Laments
Hans Werner Henze Extracts from Voices Andriessen De Staat (The Republic)†
Penderecki Violin Concerto No.1 Górecki Symphony No.3 (Symphony of Sorrowful Songs), Op.36
Musicians from the Royal College of Music and Guildhall School of Music & Drama, Simon Wills†
London Philharmonic Orchestra, Michał Dworzynski, Barnabas Kelemen, Allison Bell
Queen Elizabeth Hall, 5pm Free to Day and Weekend Pass Holders
Royal Festival Hall, 7.30pm £9 - £65
SUNDAY 3 NOVEMBER 2013
FREE pre-concert event, 6.15pm Royal Festival Hall Conductor Michał Dworzynski discusses the evening’s programme.
Last Words
The last utterances of two great musical friends – Britten and Shostakovich. Berio Ritirata notturna di Madrid (after Boccherini) Britten Suite from Death in Venice arr. Steuart Bedford Shostakovich Symphony No.15 Royal Liverpool Philharmonic Orchestra, Vasily Petrenko
Wednesday 6 November 2013
London Philharmonic Orchestra Foyle Future Firsts Galina Ustvolskaya’s final work – a haunting setting of The Lord’s Prayer. Programme includes: Galina Ustvolskaya Symphony No.5 (Amen) London Philharmonic Orchestra Foyles Future Firsts, Ben Gernon
Royal Festival Hall, 6pm Free WEDNESDAY 6 NOVEMBER 2013
A Timeless Beauty Pärt’s devastating purity, stillness and resonance connect the distant past to the absolute present. Gubaidulina Offertorium (Violin Concerto) Pärt Magnificat; Cantus in Memory of Benjamin Britten; Berlin Messe London Philharmonic Orchestra, Tõnu Kaljuste, Sergej Krylov, London Philharmonic Choir
Royal Festival Hall, 7.30pm £9 - £65 concert playlist - see page 46
SaturDAY 30 NOVEMBER 2013
19 eighties : the rhythm of a decade Follow the progress of rhythm in a post-sampler, post-drum machine, post-Minimalist and post-remix world! BBC Concert Orchestra, Anne Dudley, Paul Morley & special guests
Queen Elizabeth Hall, 7.30pm £12 - £15
also in the rest is noise this november SUNDAY 3 NOVEMBER 2013
The Young Person’s Guide to the Orchestra Come and experience Britten’s perfect musical introduction to orchestra. Britten The Young Person’s Guide to the Orchestra London Philharmonic Orchestra FUNharmonics, Stuart Stratford, Chris Jarvis
Royal Festival Hall, 12 noon £10 – £18 (Children £5 – £9)
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1960 – 1990 See how America dominated the world at a weekend of talks and films, plus concerts throughout November.
America’s continued domination on the world stage was symbolised by Neil Armstrong’s tentative steps on the surface of the moon in July 1969, but not everything was going smoothly. The 1970s saw economic troubles, foreign-policy headaches and the dramatic resignation of President Nixon over the Watergate scandal. Some of the idealism of the 1960s had subsided, but American artists were creating engaging work away from the angst and in-fighting of the European avant-garde.
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a fresh new physicality in rhythm A group of American composers developed Minimalism, a music that brought consonant harmonies to a fresh new physicality in rhythm to the lofts and art galleries of New York. Euphoric, hypnotic and with a commercial success that set it apart from many previous musical movements, Minimalism had an engaging openness that took in influences from jazz and gamelan to African drumming. Of course, there had been American composers writing genuinely popular notated music before Minimalism, but it was being heard in movie theatres and on Broadway. Many cinematic and musical-theatre classics benefited from stirring and memorable music that has become an integral part of America’s cultural landscape.
UH-1D © Bruce Crandall Buzz Aldrin salutes the US flag on the moon © NASA Apollo Archive
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SATURDAY 9 – SUNDAY 10 NOVEMBER
weekend events from 10.30am Vietnam. Watergate. Downtown New York. Scorsese. We get under the skin of a nation which put a man on the moon, but was still rocked by political, social and economic scandal. Plus Minimalism: the euphoric, hypnotic and surprisingly commercial musical phenomenon.
IN DEPTH DISCUSSIONS
• ‘There’s just a handful of living composers
who can legitimately claim to have altered the direction of musical history and Steve Reich is one of them’ (The Guardian). Reich discusses the cultural melting-pot of New York in the 1960s and 1970s.
BREAKFAST WITH GLASS
Grab a coffee and delve inside the music of The Rest Is Noise festival. Composer Fraser Trainer leads a fun and informal workshop on Glass’ Music in 12 Parts.
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• Naomi Wolf speaks on political activism
Don’t know where to start? Let our music experts bring the music of Superpower to life in these beginner’s guides.
• Keith Potter discusses the rise of
LIVE MUSIC
in late 20th-century America.
• Social historian Luc Sante reveals the
secret corners and characters of 1970s New York, when writers, artists and outsiders made downtown their home.
BITES: YOUR WHISTLE-STOP TOUR
15 minutes on some of the need-to-know topics of the era.
Musicians from the Royal Academy of Music perform a collection of Elliott Carter’s solo and instrumental works. Hear Nancarrow’s unique player piano music across the weekend.
FILM SCREENINGS
Including Philip Glass and Godfrey Reggio’s Koyaanisqatsi.
• The show must go on! The ever-changing fortunes of Broadway theatre.
• The whole world mourned when John
Lennon was shot on 8 December 1980. What have we learnt from his life and his death?
• Jane Jacobs’ diatribe against suburbs
labelled them ‘parasitic’ and proposed a new way to plan cities across the world.
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• Disco – from psychedelic counterculture to Top of the Pops.
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Minimalism in the 1960s and 1970s.
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Weekend Events Timetable Create your own timetable for the weekend, going from keynote talks to intimate discussions and film screenings
SATURDAY 9 NOVEMBER TIME EVENT
CONTENT
Throughout the day Film Screenings
Short films and documentaries from the period.
Nancarrow Player Piano Music
10.30am – 11.30am Superpower? 12 noon – 1pm
American history from 1960 – 1990. The birth of Minimalism.
No Wave
The influential underground music, art and video scene.
Andy Warhol
Explore the life and legacy of the artist who defined the era.
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Keith Potter
On one of the only working player pianos identical to Nancarrow’s own.
Watergate
An insight into the controversy.
1pm – 2.30pm Koyaanisqatsi
Philip Glass and Godfrey Reggio’s 1982 feature film.
2pm – 3pm Royal Academy of Music
Elliott Carter performance, including his works Scrivo in vento, Improvisation, Gra and 8 Etudes and a fantasy.
Listen to This
Noise Bites 3pm – 5pm
Gamelan Workshop*
Delve into the music of Superpower. The need-to-know topics of the era. Try the instrument which inspired Steve Reich.
3.30pm – 4.30pm Robert Frank
An insight into the work of this great photographer of urban America.
Luc Sante
The writer on the downtown scene in 1970s New York.
Listen to This
Please see 2pm.
Noise Bites
The need-to-know topics of the era.
5pm – 10pm Music in 12 Parts*
Philip Glass Ensemble perform Glass’ masterpiece, with the composer himself on the keyboard.
7pm – 9pm
Gamelan Workshop*
Try the instrument which inspired Steve Reich.
Full, extended details of talks, topics, speakers and timings plus additional events will be available online.
* Not included in the Day or Weekend Pass
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DAY PASs £15 WEEKEND pASS £25
SUNDAY 10 NOVEMBER TIME EVENT
CONTENT
Throughout the day Film Screenings
Short films and documentaries from the period.
Nancarrow Player Piano Music
On one of the only working player pianos identical to Nancarrow’s own.
10.30am – 11.30am Breakfast with Glass
Grab a coffee with Fraser Trainer and delve into Philip Glass’ Music in 12 Parts.
11.45am – 12.45pm Steve Reich
The composer gives a keynote talk on the cultural milieu of New York in the 1960s and 1970s.
1pm – 2pm
Andrew Zolinsky* Performs music by Morton Feldman, Meredith Monk and John Cage. Journalist Bidisha on the global pop star in the MTV era.
Noise Bites
The need-to-know topics of the era.
Film Music of the 1970s.
The great film scores from John Williams to Bernard Herrman.
3pm – 5pm
Sondheim: Inside Out*
BBC Concert Orchestra, Keith Lockhart.
Gamelan Workshop*
Try the instrument which inspired Steve Reich.
3.30pm – 4.30pm
Naomi Wolf
Radical politics in America.
Noise Bites
The need-to-know topics of the era.
Birth of Hip Hop
DJ Nihal leads a discussion on Hip Hop’s rise from the ghetto.
AIDS – A New Time of Fear Speakers give testimony to the AIDS crisis in urban America. 5pm – 6pm John Ashbery
Birth of House Music
The Art of Jeff Koons
The great poet and his influence. Includes discussion and readings. Illustrated talk given by Tim Lawrence. A discussion on the life and work of a quintessential American artist.
7pm – 9pm
Gamelan Workshop*
Try the instrument which inspired Steve Reich.
7.30pm – 10pm
Steve Reich & Colin Currie Group*
Steve Reich takes part in a concert which includes his Music for 18 Musicians.
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SUPERPOWER: the concerts FRIDAY 8 NOVEMBER 2013
SATURDAY 9 NOVEMBER 2013
Contemporary American chamber music.
Mentored by Charles Ives, Elliott Carter, who lived to 103, produced music of elegant Modernism throughout his long life.
American Undercurrents Musicians from the Royal Northern College of Music
Central Bar Foyer at Royal Festival Hall, 1pm FREE FRIDAY 8 NOVEMBER 2013
The Genius of Film Music 1960 – 1980 Welcome to Hollywood and the golden age of movie music.
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Alex North Cleopatra Symphony Nino Rota The Godfather, A symphonic portrait Franz Waxman The Ride of the Cossacks Bernard Herrmann Psycho, A narrative for string orchestra Bronislaw Kaper Mutiny on the Bounty Jerry Goldsmith The New Enterprise from Star Trek London Philharmonic Orchestra, John Mauceri
Royal Festival Hall, 7.30pm £9 - £65 FRIDAY 8 NOVEMBER 2013
Feldman Patterns Morton Feldman wrote, ‘I feel that I listen to my sounds, and I do what they tell me, not what I tell them. Because I owe my life to these sounds.’ Morton Feldman Patterns in a Chromatic Field for cello and piano Apartment House, Anton Lukoszevieze, Philip Thomas
Purcell Room at Queen Elizabeth Hall, 7.45pm £10
An American Pioneer
Elliott Carter Scrivo in vento; Improvisation; Gra; Moto perpetuo; Inner song; Adagio; Retracing; Canaries; Eight etudes and a fantasy Musician from the Royal Academy of Music
Purcell Room at Queen Elizabeth Hall, 2pm Free to Day and Weekend Pass holders SATURDAY 9 NOVEMBER 2013
Music in 12 Parts
A rare complete performance of Philip Glass’ four-hour Minimalist masterpiece, with the composer himself on keyboards. Glass Music in Twelve Parts Philip Glass Ensemble Royal Festival Hall, 5pm £12 - £35 concert playlist - see page 46 SUNDAY 10 NOVEMBER 2013
America’s Great Originals Piano music from some great American experimentalists that focuses the listener on sound, silence and time.
Christian Wolff For Piano 1 John Cage One for piano Meredith Monk Railroad; St Petersburg Waltz Christian Wolff Preludes Nos.6, 9 & 11 Morton Feldman Palais de mari Andrew Zolinsky
Purcell Room at Queen Elizabeth Hall, 1pm £10
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SUNDAY 10 NOVEMBER 2013
Sondheim: Inside Out Delve into Sondheim’s unique and entertaining observations on love, relationships and human interaction. BBC Concert Orchestra, Keith Lockhart
Queen Elizabeth Hall, 3pm £12 - £15
SUNDAY 10 NOVEMBER 2013
Steve Reich & the Colin Currie Group Steve Reich himself joins us for a selection of his most bewitching scores including Music for 18 Musicians. Steve Reich Clapping Music; Come out; Music for pieces of wood; Pendulum music; Music for 18 musicians Steve Reich, Colin Currie Group
Royal Festival Hall, 7.30pm £12 - £35
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Morton Feldman © Barbara Monk-Feldman
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1989 – tomorrow Glimpse into the future in our weekend of talks and films plus concerts from 28 November – 14 December.
As the Berlin Wall fell in November 1989 and Presidents Bush and Gorbachev announced the end of the Cold War, Francis Fukuyama announced the ‘End of History’. At that time it seemed that Western liberal capitalism had emerged from the bloody battle victorious. Communications technology and rapid globalisation created a hive of bustling activity – a truly worldwide musical scene that, like the capitalist marketplace, seemed to respect no boundaries.
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‘We live in a time not of mainstream but of many streams’ John Cage
Composers cheerfully plundered materials from past or present; near or far; classical, world, jazz or pop. New audiences emerged in every continent, and the next great composer was as likely to be found in Beijing as in Berlin, Venezuela or Vienna. ‘We live in a time not of mainstream but of many streams,’ John Cage mused shortly before his death in 1992, suspicious as ever of the very idea of ‘musical history’; the self-styled ‘anti-capitalist’ of modern music went on, ‘or even, if you insist upon a river of time, then we have come to the delta, maybe even beyond a delta to an ocean which is going back to the skies…’
F-15s parked during Operation Desert Shield © Phan Chad Vann People on the Berlin Wall near the Brandenburg Gate on 9 November 1989 © Sue Ream
weekend events from 10am
DAY PASs £15* WEEKEND pASS £25*
december
SATURDAY 7 – SUNDAY 8 DECEMBER
*Concerts are not included in the Day or Weekend Passes
Music. Art. Society. Politics. What’s next? ‘We live in a time not of mainstreams but of many streams’, said composer John Cage. With the fall of the Berlin Wall, old certainties were cast aside and globalisation made a truly worldwide musical scene. This weekend we ask: what next?
IN DEPTH DISCUSSIONS
• Alex Ross concludes his inspirational
narrative on the music of a century by looking at the effects of rapid advances in communications technology, and looking forward to the future.
• Scientist and broadcaster Susan Greenfield looks at technology and the brain.
• Evgeny Morozov asks whether the
• The Young British Artists (or YBAs) turned the art world on its head with their bold promotion, self-belief and ‘shock-art’.
BITES: YOUR WHISTLE-STOP TOUR
15 minutes on some of the need-to-know topics of the era.
• In September 1992 a single day cost the UK economy £3.3 billion. We discuss Black Wednesday.
• Tony Blair called the Millennium Dome
‘a triumph of confidence over cynicism, boldness over blandness, excellence over mediocrity,’ setting the scene for disappointment and disillusion.
• We look at the effect of relaxed immigration policies in the European Union.
BREAKFAST WITH ADAMS
Grab a coffee and delve inside the music of The Rest Is Noise festival. Composer John Browne leads a fun and informal workshop on Adams’ El Niño.
Don’t know where to start? Let Jonathan Cross bring the music of New World Order to life in these beginner’s guides.
LIVE MUSIC
Singers from the Guildhall School of Music & Drama perform works by British composers including Judith Weir, Oliver Knussen and Anthony Payne. The Royal College of Music’s New Perspectives Ensemble explore contemporary British Music.
FILM SCREENINGS
Including Wolfgang Becker’s 1993 film Goodbye, Lenin!
LONDON SINFONIETTA NEW MUSIC show
A host of premieres throughout Sunday. Plus, a series of talks and panel discussions curated by the Royal Philharmonic Society explores the future of new music. Also, the return of Hidden – intimate solo performances of short new works in unusual spaces.
he Royal Philharmonic Society T celebrates its Bicentenary
The society which commissioned Beethoven’s Ninth Symphony looks to the future of music through a discussion with composer George Benjamin and Tom Service. Plus more debate and newly commissioned music throughout Sunday.
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internet is helping to bring down or bolster up authoritarian regimes.
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new world order Weekend Events Timetable
Create your own timetable for the weekend, going from keynote talks to intimate discussions and film screenings
SATURDAY 7 DECEMBER TIME EVENT
CONTENT
Throughout the Day Film Screenings
Short films and documentaries from the period.
10am – 11am
Breakfast with Adams
Grab a coffee and delve into John Adams’ El Niño.
11.15am – 12.15pm The Century Draws to a Close A talk on the exciting and fast-paced history of the last decades of the 20th century. 12.30pm – 1.30pm The Young British Artists
From Emin to Hirst, the YBAs defined a generation, bringing a new mass audience to contemporary art.
Noise Bites
The need-to-know topics of the era.
War in the 1990s
Discussion on the wars across the globe and the politics of Western intervention.
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Royal College of Music
Music by Knussen, Holt, Turnage and Benjamin.
2.15pm – 3.15pm Alex Ross
A keynote talk on the global diversity of music after 1980.
3.30pm – 4.30pm The Bilbao Effect
Across the globe, architects created iconic buildings for the arts, re-generating post- industrial cities. We survey this new landscape.
Listen to This
Noise Bites
Delve into the music of New World Order. The need-to-know topics of the era.
The Global Art World
The art market and the age of the biennale.
5pm – 6pm
Guildhall School of Music & Drama
A performance of Weir’s King Harald Saga and Knussen’s Whitman Settings.
The 1990s: When Surface was Depth
From politics to pop, ‘Cool Britannia’ was the ultimate rebrand, but what was its underlying legacy?
Susan Greenfield: Technology & the 21st-century Mind
A talk on the physiology of the brain in the digital era.
Post-Communist Migration This event tracks politics of population, and in Europe the dramatic changes in Britain’s ethnic make-up post-2004
Listen to This
Please see 3.30pm.
6pm – 7pm Pre-Concert Performance
Foyle Future Firsts perform works by Julian Anderson and Martin Butler.
7.30pm – 10pm Macmillan’s Veni, Veni, Emmanuel*
London Philharmonic Orchestra, Evelyn Glennie, Vladimir Jurowski.
Full, extended details of talks, topics, speakers and timings plus additional events will be available online.
* Not included in the Day or Weekend Pass
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DAY PASs £15 WEEKEND pASS £25
Sunday 8 DECEMBER TIME EVENT
CONTENT
Throughout the Day Film Screenings
Short films and documentaries from the period.
Hidden installations
Intimate solo performances in unusual places with London Sinfonietta.
10am – 11am Alex Ross
The author who inspired the festival in conversation.
12 noon – 1pm New Music, What Next?
A panel discussion curated by the Royal Philharmonic Society as part of their Bicentenary celebrations chaired by Charlotte Higgins.
Everything is Various
Contemporary poetry in the 1990s. With climate change a reality, how can green politics become a priority in a world of scarce resources?
Noise Bites The need-to-know topics of the era. 1.15pm – 1.45pm
The New Music Show Set 1 London Sinfonietta performs.
2pm – 3pm New Labour and Britain
Tony Blair’s election heralded a new era for Britain. We dissect Iraq, the Credit Crunch and social change under New Labour.
Noise Bites The need-to-know topics of the era. Music & The Internet 2.15pm – 3pm
The internet has broken down traditional roles of producer and consumer. Can genuine new talent rise to the top?
The New Music Show Set 2* London Sinfonietta performs.
3.30pm – 4.30pm Constants and Variables: George Benjamin and Tom Service discuss Which Future for Music? the future of music as part of the Royal Philharmonic Society Bicentenary celebrations. 5pm – 5.30pm
The New Music Show Set 3 London Sinfonietta performs.
5pm – 6pm Evgeny Morozov
World-leading theorist on the impact of the internet on society.
6pm – 7pm
The New Music Show Set 4* London Sinfonietta performs.
7.30pm – 8.30pm
Closing Keynote Is the rest really noise? We close the final weekend.
8pm – 10pm
Goodbye, Lenin!
Wolfgang Becker’s 1993 feature film.
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NEW WORLD ORDER: the concerts THURSDAY 28 NOVEMBER 2013
FRIDAY 6 DECEMBER 2013
Takemitsu’s lush, filmic sound-pictures and Ligeti’s rich, eccentric and colourful pieces are among the most appealing sounds of the late 20th century.
A re-imagining of the genre-hopping 1990 record by the jazz punk supergroup.
No More Rules
Toru Takemitsu Green (November steps II); Marginalia; I hear the water dreaming for flute & orchestra Ligeti San Francisco Polyphony; Violin Concerto BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra, Ilan Volkov, Ilya Gringolts, Patrick Gallois
Royal Festival Hall, 7.30pm £9 - £65 FRIDAY 29 NOVEMBER 2013
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Excerpts from: John Williams Star Wars Vangelis Chariots of Fire Marvin Hamlisch Sophie’s Choice Ennio Morricone The Mission Luis Enríque Bacalov Il Postino Angelo Badalamenti Twin Peaks Elmer Bernstein The Age of Innocence Danny Elfman The Nightmare before Christmas John Powell Chicken Run Nicola Piovani La Vita è bella Jerry Goldsmith Mulan Don Davis The Matrix Hans Zimmer Gladiator London Philharmonic Orchestra, Dirk Brossé
Royal Festival Hall, 7.30pm £9 - £65 SUNDAY 1 DECEMBER 2013
György & Márta Kurtág, Hiromi Kikuchi A rare visit from from legendary Hungarian composer György Kurtág and his wife Márta to perform his humorous, quirky piano miniatures. György Kurtág Hipartita; Excerpts from Játékok (Games); Bach arrangements György and Márta Kurtág, Hiromi Kikuchi
Queen Elizabeth Hall, 3pm £10 - £22
After Naked City
Trinity Laban Conservatoire of Music and Dance
Central Bar Foyer at Royal Festival Hall, 1pm FREE FRIDAY 6 DECEMBER 2013
in vain
Regarded as a major masterpiece from the end of the 20th century, this is the first opportunity to hear in vain in London. It draws the listener into a glorious and adventurous sound world performed partly in pitch black. Georg Friedrich Haas in vain for 24 instruments (London premiere) London Sinfonietta, André de Ridder
Queen Elizabeth Hall, 8pm £10 - £20 SATURDAY 7 DECEMBER
Best of British
Four brilliant ensemble pieces from major British composers, all of whom have strong connections to the Royal College of Music. Oliver Knussen Organa Holt Lilith Mark-Anthony Turnage On all fours George Benjamin 3 inventions The Royal College of Music New Perspectives, Tim Lines
Purcell Room at Queen Elizabeth Hall, 12.30pm Free to Day and Weekend Pass holders
King Harald
Colourful vocal works from two unique British composers. Knussen Whitman Settings Payne Evening Land; Adlestrop Weir King Harald’s Saga Musicians from Guildhall School of Music & Drama
Purcell Room at Queen Elizabeth Hall, 5pm Free to Day and Weekend Pass holders Saturday 7 December 2013
London Philharmonic Orchestra Foyle Future Firsts British music from the 1990s. Programme includes: Martin Butler Jazz machines Julian Anderson Tiramisu for chamber ensemble London Philharmonic Orchestra Foyle Future Firsts, Paul Hoskins
SATURDAY 7 DECEMBER 2013
Classic Britannia
A concert that showcases how British composers revitalised music for orchestras in the 1990s. It includes MacMillan’s popular percussion concerto and Adès’ Asyla, in which compelling modern music meets nightclub beats. Julian Anderson The Stations of the Sun James MacMillan Veni, Veni, Emmanuel Mark-Anthony Turnage Evening Songs Thomas Adès Asyla London Philharmonic Orchestra, Vladimir Jurowski, Evelyn Glennie
Royal Festival Hall, 7.30pm £9 - £65
London Sinfonietta: The New Music Show 2013 The London Sinfonietta’s festival-ina-day featuring world, UK and London premieres from composers including Francisco Coll and Edmund Finnis. Hidden returns – a series of intimate solo performances in secret backstage spaces – and the Royal Philharmonic Society curates talks and panel discussions on the future of new music. London Sinfonietta, Baldur Brönnimann, Sound Intermedia (sound projection)
Queen Elizabeth Hall and Purcell Room at Queen Elizabeth Hall, from 1.15pm £20 day ticket SATURDAY 14 DECEMBER 2013
Adams: El Niño
Adams’ alternative, Hispanic Christmas Oratorio is a celebratory and hypnotic culmination to the festival. John Adams El Niño (Nativity Oratorio) London Philharmonic Orchestra, Vladimir Jurowski, Kate Royal, Kelley O’Connor, Matthew Rose, Daniel Bubeck, Brian Cummings, Steven Rickards, Mark Grey, London Philharmonic Choir
Royal Festival Hall, 7.30pm £9 - £65 FREE pre-concert event, 5pm The Clore Ballroom at Royal Festival Hall The London Philharmonic Orchestra’s creative ensemble for 15 to 19-year-olds, The Band, performs new music inspired by John Adams’ El Niño and its source texts. concert playlist - see page 46
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SUNDAY 8 DECEMBER
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WEEKEND TICKETS Spend a weekend immersed in the culture, music, politics and art of the 20th century. For just £25 you can enjoy two days of talks, debates, films and expertly guided listening sessions that each of the 12 focus weekends has to offer*. Alternatively you can attend on either a Saturday or a Sunday with a Day Pass.
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CHOOSE YOUR OWN SOUNDTRACK Choose your own journey throughout the year. Pick three or more events in Royal Festival Hall, Queen Elizabeth Hall or Purcell Room to get the following discount packages: Book 3 – 4 concerts and save 10% Book 5 – 6 concerts and save 15% Book 7 – 10 concerts and save 20% Book 11 – 14 concerts and save 25% Book 15 or more concerts and save 30%
CONCERT PLAYLIST Over the course of the festival we have selected 12 key pieces that guide you through our story of the 20th century. See our final six pieces below which explore the period from 1945 when composers struggled to build a new world, past the swingingSixties to works that provide a hint of the future. Book 3 – 4 concerts and save 10% Book 5 – 6 concerts and save 15% Key works: BRITTEN
PETER GRIMES
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STOCKHAUSEN GESANG DER JÜNGLINGE p20 BERIO
SINFONIA
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GUBAIDULINA OFFERTORIUM
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GLASS
MUSIC IN 12 PARTS
p38
ADAMS
EL NIÑO
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FRIDAY LUNCH & TONIC
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HAYWARD GALLERY PROJECT SPACE
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