Music of Exile
Saturday 13 January 2018 7.30–9.35pm Barbican Hall MUSIC OF EXILE Schoenberg, Shilkret, Tansman, Milhaud, Castelnuovo-Tedesco, Toch & Stravinsky Genesis Suite (UK premiere) Interval BartÓk Concerto for Orchestra Sir Simon Rattle conductor Gerard McBurney creative director MUSIC OF Mike Tutaj projection design Simon Callow, Rodney Earl Clarke, Sara Kestelman, Helen McCrory narrators London Symphony Chorus Simon Halsey chorus director Produced by the LSO and the Barbican. Part of the LSO’s 2017/18 Season, Barbican EXILE Presents and the Barbican’s 2018 season, The Art of Change, which explores how artists respond to, reflect and can potentially effect change in the social and political landscape. Welcome Kathryn McDowell & Sir Nicholas Kenyon elcome to tonight’s LSO concert at We are joined by a stellar cast of narrators WELCOME TO TONIGHT’S GROUPS the Barbican, part of the Barbican’s for the Genesis Suite: Simon Callow, 2018 season, The Art of Change. Rodney Earl Clarke, Sara Kestelman and We are delighted to welcome Continuing his first season as Music Director Helen McCrory. A warm welcome also Mr & Mrs Nisbet & Friends of the Orchestra and Artist-in-Association to the London Symphony Chorus, who join with the Barbican and Guildhall School, the Orchestra on-stage, led by the LSO’s Sir Simon Rattle explores music written during Choral Director Simon Halsey. the 1940s by composers who fled wartime Europe to take refuge in the US. He conducts This evening’s concert, following opera the Genesis Suite, a rarely heard collaboration performances in 2015 and 2016, is presented by seven of the leading composers of the day, in partnership by the LSO and the Barbican.
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