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Glanertin London Boosey & Hawkes Music Publishers Limited February 2012 2012/1 Adams spring premieres Jenkins The Peacemakers Los Angeles and San Francisco play host to two John Adams Karl Jenkins conducted Choir and The Really Big premieres: The Gospel According to the Other Mary and the world premiere of The Chorus, with violinist Included in this issue: Absolute Jest for string quartet and orchestra. Peacemakers, for chorus Chloë Hanslip, soprano Britten and orchestra, at Lucy Crowe and the New choreography of Carnegie Hall in New York London Symphony The Prince of the Pagodas on 16 January. The hour- Orchestra conducted long work draws on texts by the composer in Tokyo by a range of iconic (EMI 509990-843782-2). figures who have extolled Vocal scores of The peace and tolerance, Peacemakers will be including Mahatma published by Boosey & Gandhi, Nelson Mandela, Hawkes to tie-in with the Mother Teresa and Martin new CD. Luther King, and The most recent Jenkins promises to be a major choral work is Songs of the Earth, to be addition to the choral repertoire alongside premiered by the BBC National Orchestra and the composer’s much-performed The Armed Chorus of Wales and Welsh County Youth Man: A Mass for Peace and Requiem. Choirs in Cardiff on 4 March. The 30-minute The Carnegie Hall performance was score was commissioned by BBC Radio 3 as presented by Distinguished Concerts part of Music Nation which counts down to the International New York, and launched a London 2012 Cultural Olympiad. Jenkins Lindberg second Global Sing for Peace campaign describes how “I turned to ancient Greece, Interview on which will run throughout 2012. In May birthplace of the original games, and Greek Piano Concerto No.2 Jenkins conducts the UK premiere tour of mythology for inspiration and for how the Photo: Matthew Imaging The Peacemakers visiting Bridgewater Hall in Greeks perceived the creation of Earth. For text premiere in New York John Adams with Gustavo Dudamel Manchester (19 May), the Royal Festival Hall I have used my own ‘mythical’ language, first The latest large-scale work by John Adams, and orchestra, commissioned by the San in London (20), St David’s Hall in Cardiff used in the Adiemus project.” (23) and Symphony Hall in Birmingham (27). created during his tenure as Creative Chair Francisco Symphony and Carnegie Hall, and Following its successful premiere of Jenkins’s of the Los Angeles Philharmonic, is a new featuring the St Lawrence String Quartet The EMI Classics recording of The Gloria in 2010, The Really Big Chorus has full-evening oratorio. The Gospel According which has extensively toured the composer’s Peacemakers is released internationally in commissioned a second score for chorus and to the Other Mary is premiered on 31 May 2008 String Quartet. The premiere in San March, bringing together the combined choral orchestra. The 20-minute work, which again under the baton of Gustavo Dudamel at Francisco on 15 March is conducted by forces of the Rundfunkchor Berlin, City of explores Greek classical themes, is premiered Walt Disney Concert Hall. Based on the Michael Tilson Thomas as part of his Birmingham Symphony Orchestra Youth at the Royal Albert Hall in London on 8 July. New Testament stories of Lazarus and American Mavericks series, with the Jesus’ Passion and incorporating orchestra touring in its centennial season to contemporary American poetry, the work Chicago, Ann Arbor and New York. Absolute takes a fresh approach to the combination of Jest, which draws upon the energy of the materials that the composer pioneered so Beethovenian scherzo, will be heard in Turnage successfully in El Niño. Europe for the first time in 2013, including a Glanert in London performance by the London Symphony The text for the Gospel is compiled by Glanert’s newest opera, Solaris, based on Choreographic collaborations Orchestra conducted by Adams at the Adams’s long-time collaborator Peter Sellars the visionary sci-fi novel by Stanislav Lem, is including Undance premiere Barbican next January. in London and, as with El Niño, the oratorio is intended premiered at the Bregenz Festival on 18 July. to co-exist as a work for the concert hall and The first London staging of Adams’s The The production by Moshe Leiser and Patrice the stage. The Gospel will be premiered in a Death of Klinghoffer by Tom Morris, opening Caurier is conducted by Markus Stenz. In the concert version, and returns to Los Angeles at English National Opera on 25 February, is orchestral sphere, Glanert’s new homage to in a staged production by Sellars in Spring a co-production with the Metropolitan Opera Brahms for the BBC Scottish Symphony 2013 followed by an international tour. for its 2014/15 season. Nixon in China, Orchestra is unveiled in Glasgow on 22 The work is commissioned by the LA which celebrates its 25th anniversary this March under the baton of Donald Runnicles. Philharmonic with the Barbican, Lincoln year, receives two major productions: a new Last month brought a tour of Insomnium by Center, Lucerne Festival, Zaterdag Matinee staging by Chen Shi-Zheng at the Théâtre du the German Youth Orchestra and the US at the Concertgebouw Amsterdam, and Châtelet in Paris in April, and San Francisco premiere of Shoreless River from the National Cité de la Musique in Paris. Opera’s presentation in June of Michael Symphony in Washington. Cavanagh’s production first seen at March brings the world premiere of Absolute Vancouver Opera. Jest, Adams’s new work for string quartet A new production of Detlev Glanert’s opera MacMillan Caligula, a powerful exploration of totalitarian Choral news including new politics based on the play by Albert Camus, Gloria marking Coventry New at boosey.com opens on 25 May at English National Opera Cathedral’s 50th year in London. Though Glanert is one of the Spanish website most widely performed German operatic Boosey.com has recently expanded with a new website area providing enhanced online composers of his generation, this new services for the Spanish-speaking community worldwide. This coincides with Boosey & Hawkes production by Benedict Andrews is the first in New York taking over direct representation of the catalogue in Central and South America staging of any of his full-evening operas in (excluding Argentina, Uruguay and Venezuela where Barry Editorial remains the agent). the UK. The London performances For further information contact [email protected]. introduce a new English translation by Commissions > www.boosey.com/espanol Amanda Holden, the cast is led by Peter The Royal Philharmonic Society and the Coleman-Wright, and ENO forces are Britten-Pears Foundation have announced a conducted by Ryan Wigglesworth. Caligula series of major co-commissions to mark was premiered in Frankfurt and Cologne in Britten’s centenary and the RPS’s 2006 and recorded for Oehms Classics. bicentenary in 2013. Six leading international composers have been commissioned to To view the Spanish The opera starts at the point when the write works for different ensembles that website, scan the code Emperor Caligula’s sister and lover Drusilla is below with your reflect the range of Britten’s compositional smartphone. Download dying. After hiding himself for three days he the scan app from output, including symphony orchestra, www.i-nigma.com returns, unhinged, into a chilling new clarity children’s choir and tenor with piano. of understanding. He announces that he will marry the moon and launches a regime of The commissions include a new ensemble terror upon his courtiers. He sets out to work by Magnus Lindberg to be premiered prove that he is the only free human, by the Birmingham Contemporary Music destroying all around him until he is truly Group and a new song-cycle by Harrison alone and ready to claim immortality. Birtwistle, setting texts by David Harsent, written for Mark Padmore and Till Fellner. Glanert describes how “Camus understood The six works will be premiered and Online Scores Web documentaries the nature of the dictator, that his total performed nationally and internationally The Online Scores area launched last year is The latest video composer profiles added to freedom breeds terror. He is not a madman during 2013. proving highly popular, offering a free library the Audio Visual area are of HK Gruber, but rather an intelligent, rational creature A new Britten 100 website is due to be soft of full scores for immediate online viewing. filmed in Vienna, and David Del Tredici in who skilfully experiments with human launched by the BPF in April, including an celebration of his 75th birthday in March. beings, just like Hitler or Stalin. And the The number of scores has grown to over horrific truth is that we understand him, overview of centenary performances, with 600, with recent additions linked to the A documentary on Kurt Schwertsik follows in because we all have the capacity to become the full site going live to the public on centenaries of Markevitch (2012), Britten the coming months, joining the videos such a monster. Even in a small provincial Britten’s birthday 22 November, one year (2013) and Panufnik (2014) plus a collection featuring Michel van der Aa, Andriessen, town, an ideological devil like Caligula could ahead of the centenary itself. Please contact of major Stravinsky works. Birtwistle, Carter, Jenkins and Reich. appear. As he cries out, when murdered: us with your performance plans by emailing > www.boosey.com/onlinescores > www.boosey.com/av ‘I am still alive’.” [email protected]. Britten Thirteen Diversions Lindberg Piano Concerto No.2 Christopher Wheeldon In the lead-up to the Britten centenary in 2013 choreographers Magnus Lindberg’s new concerto for Yefim Bronfman is premiered How does the soloist’s material reflect the piano’s have been exploring the balletic potential of the composer’s by the New York Philharmonic on 3 May, conducted by Alan Gilbert.
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