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Royal Festival Hall
Philharmonia Orchestra: Music of Today
Thursday 9 February 2012
Ivan Fedele's Maja is one of our time's most enchanting vocal cycles.
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Purcell Room
Salomé: 1923 movie and Charlie Barber's music live
Thursday 9 February 2012
A rare screening of the classic 1923 silent movie Salomé complete with a live score by Charlie Barber.
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Royal Festival Hall
Close up with Charles Hazlewood & The Philharmonia Orchestra: Pictures at an Exhibition
Saturday 11 February 2012
Charles Hazlewood joins 250 schoolchildren to bring you a colourful concert that combines painting, music and lots of singing! Conductor Charles Hazlewood conducts a young choir, part of Southwark Excellence in Schools, who share a stage with the Philharmonia Orchestra.
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Queen Elizabeth Hall
Saturday 11 February 2012
The London Sinfonietta presents a portrait of Olga Neuwirth, the Austrian composer who came to prominence in the UK with her operatic adaptation of David Lynch's Lost Highway produced by the ENO and Young Vic.
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The Front Room at QEH
Sounds From A Room: Heiner Goebbels' Up River Book
Sunday 26 February 2012
The German composer Heiner Goebbels, known for his compositions for ensembles and large orchestras, gives a musical response to Joseph Conrad's 1890 journal 'Up-River Book'.
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Royal Festival Hall
Heiner Goebbels: Surrogate Cities
Saturday 3 March 2012
Trinity Laban's young musicians collaborate with the London Philharmonic Orchestra's Foyle Future Firsts and players from the National Youth Orchestra of Great Britain to explore Goebbels' extraordinary work which - drawing upon an eclectic mix of musical influences, texts and sampled sounds - translates the mechanics and architecture of the city into music.
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The Clore Ballroom
Saturday 3 March 2012
Trinity Laban students and staff collaborate with community participants to deconstruct Goebbel's work throughout the Foyers of Royal Festival Hall as part of Music Nation, a countdown event for the London 2012 Festival, the finale of the Cultural Olympiad.
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Purcell Room
Saturday 3 March 2012
What happens when you fuse the musical worlds of 20th-century composing icon Igor Stravinsky and jazz superstar Charlie Parker? <br/><br/>Discover an exciting, experimental place where jazz and classical music meet, courtesy of the Nu Civilisation Orchestra.
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Royal Festival Hall
Philharmonia Orchestra: Music of Today
Thursday 15 March 2012
This concert introduces the fascinating work of two major young composers.
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Purcell Room
Conlon Nancarrow: Virtuoso of the Player Piano
Saturday 21 April 2012
A biographical overview of composer Conlon Nancarrow's life and times, from his beginnings in Texarkana, his years in Boston and fighting in the Spanish Civil War, to his emigration to Mexico.
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Purcell Room
Conlon Nancarrow: Complete Studies for Player Piano (1/10)
Saturday 21 April 2012
Performed on an original Marshall and Wendell Ampico reproducing piano, identical to Nancarrow's own, operated by Rex Lawson and Wolfgang Heisig.
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Purcell Room
Conlon Nancarrow: Complete Studies for Player Piano (2/10)
Saturday 21 April 2012
Performed on an original Marshall and Wendell Ampico reproducing piano, identical to Nancarrow's own, operated by Rex Lawson and Wolfgang Heisig.
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Purcell Room
Conlon Nancarrow: Complete Studies for Player Piano (3/10)
Saturday 21 April 2012
Performed on an original Marshall and Wendell Ampico reproducing piano, identical to Nancarrow's own, operated by Rex Lawson and Wolfgang Heisig.
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Purcell Room
Conlon Nancarrow: Complete Studies for Player Piano (4/10)
Saturday 21 April 2012
Performed on an original Marshall and Wendell Ampico reproducing piano, identical to Nancarrow's own, operated by Rex Lawson and Wolfgang Heisig. Two piano works performed by Rex Lawson and Wolfgang Heisig on pedalled pianolas.
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Purcell Room
Conlon Nancarrow: Complete Studies for Player Piano (5/10)
Saturday 21 April 2012
Performed on an original Marshall and Wendell Ampico reproducing piano, identical to Nancarrow's own, operated by Rex Lawson and Wolfgang Heisig.
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Purcell Room
Conlon Nancarrow: Complete Studies for Player Piano (6/10)
Saturday 21 April 2012
Performed on an original Marshall and Wendell Ampico reproducing piano, identical to Nancarrow's own, operated by Rex Lawson and Wolfgang Heisig. Two piano works performed by Rex Lawson and Wolfgang Heisig on pedalled pianolas.
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Level 5 Function Room
Saturday 21 April 2012 - Sunday 22 April 2012
This conference brings together some of the most important Nancarrow scholars and commentators from around the world to explore the composer's continuing and developing influence on contemporary musical thinking.
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Queen Elizabeth Hall
Saturday 21 April 2012
The London Sinfonietta celebrates the works of 20th-century musical maverick Conlon Nancarrow.
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Purcell Room
Conlon Nancarrow: Complete Studies for Player Piano (7/10)
Sunday 22 April 2012
Nancarrow was one of the first composers to use musical instruments as mechanical machines, making them play far beyond human performance ability.
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Purcell Room
Conlon Nancarrow: Complete Studies for Player Piano (8/10)
Sunday 22 April 2012
Performed on an original Marshall and Wendell Ampico reproducing piano, identical to Nancarrow's own, operated by Rex Lawson and Wolfgang Heisig.
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