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Queen Elizabeth Hall
Wednesday 17 March 2010
Two off-beat love stories from composers who have delighted in subverting musical conventions.
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Queen Elizabeth Hall
Friday 19 March 2010
Italian composer and pianist Giovanni Allevi has established himself as a major figure in the international contemporary classical music scene.
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Royal Festival Hall
Philharmonia Orchestra: Music of Today
Thursday 15 April 2010
Richard Baker’s music is by turns attractive, witty and frightening.
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Queen Elizabeth Hall
Friday 16 April 2010
In this concert, the London Sinfonietta performs music which Varese wrote between 1930 and 1960.
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Foyer Bar - level 2
Friday 16 April 2010
In a collaboration between the London Sinfonietta and the Royal Academy of Music, new work by post-graduate composers is performed by an ensemble of musicians from both partners.
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The Clore Ballroom
Saturday 17 April 2010
A day of performances, masterclasses and demonstrations with some of the UK's leading thereminists coming together to explore and celebrate this pioneering instrument championed by Varese.
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The Clore Ballroom
Saturday 17 April 2010
Celebrating their 20th anniversary with a series of concerts and projects across the UK, this unique six-keyboard ensemble perform a late night concert in The Clore Ballroom, featuring Graham Fitkins's Log, Line, Loud and Steve Reich's iconic 6 Pianos performed with an extended line-up of past and present members of the group.
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Royal Festival Hall
Sunday 18 April 2010
The astonishingly virtuosic National Youth Orchestra of Great Britain fields a gigantic orchestra to perform Varèse’s large-scale masterpieces.
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The Clore Ballroom
NYO Composers - Varèse Inspired!
Sunday 18 April 2010
Edgard Varèse has inspired countless musicians, including Frank Zappa - now it's the turn of the National Youth Orchestra's six talented teenage composers.
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The Clore Ballroom
Enter the Ether: Varèse Visualised
Sunday 18 April 2010
Catch an extraordinary array of Varèse -related film material across the day on The Clore Ballroom's giant screen, featuring some amazing short films as well as two contrasting and fascinating documentaries.
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Queen Elizabeth Hall
Sunday 18 April 2010
This concert includes some of Varese’s most powerfully condensed works for ensemble: Hyperprism, Octandre, Offrandes and Integrales are all short works which pack a huge world of expression and vast sonic spaces into just a few minutes.
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Level 5 Function Room
Sunday 18 April 2010
A diverse panel of speakers discuss the legacy of Edgard Varèse for contemporary audiences and artists.
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Royal Festival Hall
Thursday 22 April 2010
In this very special event, the Philharmonia Orchestra presents a live screening of Waterloo, Karl Grune's 1928 epic film, featuring the UK premiere of Carl Davis' specially composed soundtrack.
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Purcell Room
Tuesday 27 April 2010
Machaca's first album, Mano a mano, was described as 'a jewel' by Gramophone Magazine.
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Royal Festival Hall
Philharmonia Orchestra: Music of Today
Thursday 20 May 2010
Austrian composer Georg Friedrich Haas has a passion for sound itself: his music rejoices in the euphonious proportions of the harmonic series, or the equal harmoniousness of Renaissance polyphony.
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Queen Elizabeth Hall
Thursday 3 June 2010
Young Japanese, UK-based composer Dai Fujikura's music has a simultaneously visceral and lyrical quality, drawing its inspirations from natural phenomena and films such as The Matrix.
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Royal Festival Hall
Saturday 25 September 2010
A contrasting programme of orchestral works including Bartók's dramatic Miraculous Mandarin and a new work by contemporary composer Matteo D'Amico
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Royal Festival Hall
Philharmonia Orchestra: Music of Today
Thursday 30 September 2010
Music of Today's new season opens with Colin Matthews' Suns Dance - which more than 20 years after its premiere remains one of the most challenging and virtuosic pieces ever composed for ensemble.
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Royal Festival Hall
Wednesday 13 October 2010
The London Philharmonic Orchestra performs a contrasting programme of works by Walton, Mendelssohn and a UK premiere by Magnus Lindberg
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Royal Festival Hall
Philharmonia Orchestra: Music of Today
Tuesday 7 December 2010
There's no categorizing HK Gruber - a composer whose music has crossed all boundaries and styles whilst remaining clearly himself.
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