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London Sinfonietta: Ustvolskaya
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
Deep Listening: Else Marie Pade
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
Quatuor Bozzini: Crawford Seeger & Abrams
Sat 6 Jul 2024, 18:30 - Southbank Centre, London
Hear works by Ruth Crawford Seeger, Muhal Richard Abrams and Johanna Beyer, some of the United States' most forward-thinking musical minds of the 20th century.Read, watch and listen more Canadian string quartet Quatuor Bozzini, known for embracing new and experimental music, bring works by their fellow North Americans to London to fill the Purcell Room with innovative music.
While America
Siwan Rhys: Ustvolskaya Solo Piano Works
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
Sunday 7 July 2024:
Quatuor Bozzini & Rhodri Davies: Occam
Sun 7 Jul 2024, 16:00 - Southbank Centre, London
The flowing sounds of waterways - often seen as in-between worlds - form the inspiration for the ethereal music of Éliane Radigue.Read, watch and listen more 'Radigue is all about perpetual transition,’ writes Kate Molleson about Éliane Radigue, the French sound pioneer who was searching for 'the sound within sound’: 'She is a master of transience, queen of the in-between.’
Radigue found
Annea Lockwood’s River Maps
Sun 7 Jul 2024, 14:00 - Southbank Centre, London
Follow the winding journey of New Zealand-born composer Annea Lockwood from river to sea, mapping the gentle sounds of waterways.Read, watch and listen more In the 1960s, Lockwood began exploring the connections between river environments and mental well-being by asking friends and colleagues for sound samples of water environments from all over the world.
Twenty years later, she turned h
Thursday 11 July 2024:
David Olusoga: Black British History and Belonging
Thu 11 Jul 2024, 19:30 - Southbank Centre, London
Historian and filmmaker David Olusoga charts the story of Black British history, bringing to light overlooked narratives, in conversation with Nesrine Malik.Read, watch and listen more Drawing on his acclaimed documentaries including Britain´s Forgotten Slave Owners and his groundbreaking Black and British: A Forgotten History , David Olusoga discusses the overlooked and underappreciated aspe
Friday 12 July 2024:
SOUNDS LiKE CHAOS: Bring the Noise
Fri 12 Jul 2024, 17:30 - Southbank Centre, London
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SOUNDS LiKE CHAOS: All Routes Lead In
Sat 13 Jul 2024, 14:00 - Southbank Centre, London
welcome different audiences and recognise how they want and choose to belong here at the Southbank Centre
The Poetry Takeaway
Sat 13 Jul 2024, 12:00 - Southbank Centre, London
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