Tuesday, 23 November 2010
In celebration of Helmut Lachenmann’s 75th birthday, University of Manchester new music ensemble Vaganza are presenting two concerts of his music this Friday. A free lunchtime concert will see Ad Solem Chamber Choir perform Lachenmann’s Consolation II alongside works by students, including Tom Coult and Joy Chou. The evening sees a more thorough examination of […]
Earlier this month I headed to Berlin to check out S.LOW Projekt, an interdisciplinary art project spanning the summer months organised by my masters supervisor Ricardo Climent. While I was there I got to see the latest incarnation of Sam Salem and Patrick Sanan’s Pond Life series, exhibited at Projektraum Schwarz in the gallery-studded area […]
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Also tagged Berlin, FischGrätenMelkStand, Martin-Gropius-Bau, N.K., Olafur Eliasson, Patrick Sanan, photography, Projektraum Schwarz, Ricardo Climent, S.LOW Projekt, Sam Salem, Temporäre Kunsthalle Berlin
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It is fairly rare to come across a programme that forms a clear, coherent unit without resorting to gimmicky themes or tenuous associations. So it was pleasing to hear the unobtrusive logic that bound together the LSO’s Sunday-evening programme at Barbican Hall of Bach (arr. Webern), Lachenmann and Brahms.
Notes on notes in London I was in London on Tuesday last week to attend Getting It Right? Performance practices in contemporary music, a day of talks and discussions on performance, composition and all the ways the two interact at LSO St Luke’s. Organised by Julian Anderson and Guildhall School of Music and Drama, the […]
Helmut Lachenmann in Stuttgart, 13.02.2009 I was visiting Stuttgart, hometown of composer Helmut Lachenmann, to hear a concert of his music presented in the Stadtkirche of the suburb Bad-Canstatt. It seemed like a good omen when, at the head of the menu in the traditional Schwäbische Stube (I suppose this the local equivalent of an […]
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Also tagged Stuttgart
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