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Going out at Southbank Centre, july 2024

European Poetry Festival: Norwegian Poetry Wednesday 3 July 2024

Wed 3 Jul 2024, 20:00 - Southbank Centre, London
Discover fresh new work by contemporary Norwegian poets and their Britain-based counterparts in the UK’s biggest celebration of continental poetry.
Read, watch and listen more The European Poetry Festival returns to the National Poetry Library for its seventh year, spotlighting performance, experimentation and collaboration.
This event celebrates contemporary Norwegian poetry, one of the m

Thursday 4 July 2024:
Apartment House: Annea Lockwood & José Maceda Thursday 4 July 2024

Thu 4 Jul 2024, 19:30 - Southbank Centre, London
Join us for the opening concert of Sound Within Sound , with music inspired by nature from Annea Lockwood and uniquely-scored chamber music from José Maceda.
Read, watch and listen more Explore the beautiful and innovative chamber music of composers Annea Lockwood and José Maceda, both of who took inspiration from the natural world.
Annea Lockwood is a New Zealand-born sound artist who use

Friday 5 July 2024:
Maya Dunietz Performs Emahoy Tsegué-Maryam Guèbrou Friday 5 July 2024

Fri 5 Jul 2024, 20:30 - Southbank Centre, London
... She couldn’t easily get out of bed, so our conversations took place in a necessarily intimate way
... ’s tiny chamber in her monastery in Jerusalem to find out more about her music. Most of that chamber was
Éliane Radigue: Occam Ocean Installation Friday 5 July 2024

Fri 5 Jul 2024, 18:00 - Southbank Centre, London
Begin your evening with the free-flowing sounds of Éliane Radigue’s Occam Ocean , which invites you to slow down and be engulfed in music.
Read, watch and listen more Named after the theory of philosopher William of Ockham, that the simplest option is always the best, Radigue’s ethereal sounds invite audiences to discover the beauty of subtle and unshowy mastery of instruments.
This instal
London Sinfonietta: Carrillo & Revueltas Friday 5 July 2024

Fri 5 Jul 2024, 19:00 - Southbank Centre, London
A journey through Mexico features striking chamber works by Revueltas and Carrillo´s moving and experimental song 'Preludio a Colón’.
Read, watch and listen more Described by Kate Molleson, author of the book Sound Within Sound that inspired this festival, as a 'confounding mix of absolutist, traditionalist, visionary and shameless revisionist’, Carrillo never ceases to surprise, in his music

Saturday 6 July 2024:
Quatuor Bozzini: Crawford Seeger & Abrams Saturday 6 July 2024

Sat 6 Jul 2024, 18:30 - Southbank Centre, London
Chicago, were at the forefront of avant-garde music.
One of the most striking works to come out of the
Deep Listening: Else Marie Pade Saturday 6 July 2024

Sat 6 Jul 2024, 20:00 - Southbank Centre, London
Immerse yourself in the unsettling sonic world of the composer dubbed the 'Technogranny’, with compositions inspired by the sounds of a 20th-century fairground.
Read, watch and listen more Dyrehavesbakken - or Bakken as it’s commonly known - is the world’s oldest amusement park, located just north of Copenhagen. Imagine the medley of sounds that made up the soundscape of this park in the mid-2
Siwan Rhys: Ustvolskaya Solo Piano Works Saturday 6 July 2024

Sat 6 Jul 2024, 15:45 - Southbank Centre, London
Siwan Rhys approaches the physical limits of piano-playing in Galina Ustvolskaya’s hurtling, ferocious outpouring of frustration and resistance.
Read, watch and listen more There aren’t many piano compositions which leave the hands and arms of the pianist bruised.
It’s also not every day that a pianist has to make sense of a score which contains passages marked 'very, very, very loud’, fol
London Sinfonietta: Ustvolskaya Saturday 6 July 2024

Sat 6 Jul 2024, 17:00 - Southbank Centre, London
The London Sinfonietta plays music from an extraordinary composer who resisted conforming under the 'Great Terror’ of the Soviet Union.
Read, watch and listen more Galina Ustvolskaya joined the composition class of Dmitri Shostakovich at Leningrad State Conservatoire in St Petersburg, and immediately won his esteem, with the elder predicting 'world fame’.
However, the conditions couldn’t

Sunday 7 July 2024:
Annea Lockwood: River Maps Sunday 7 July 2024

Sun 7 Jul 2024, 14:00 - Southbank Centre, London
search for the gentlest of sounds to rivers and set out to map the Hudson River from the Adirondack






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