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Saturday 23 September at 7.30pm Royal Philharmonic Orchestra Beethoven’sNinth London Philharmonic Choir Andrew Nethsingha conductor An unmissable all-Beethoven concert culminates Federico Colli piano with the monumental ‘Choral Symphony’. Ailish Tynan soprano Justina Gringyte mezzo-soprano Piano Concerto No.5 ‘Emperor’ Robert Murray tenor Symphony No.9 ‘Choral’ Jonathan Lemalu bass

Sunday 8October at 3.00pm Grand Organ Gala 10,000 organ pipes in glorious harmony. Celebrate Royal Philharmonic Orchestra the power and majesty of the king of instruments. City of London Choir Saint-Saëns - Symphony No. 3 ‘Organ’ Hilary Davan Wetton conductor Parry - I was Glad Laura Mitchell soprano Fauré - Pie Jesu & In paradisum from Requiem Philip Scriven organ Strauss - Sunrise from Also sprach Zarathustra Fanfare Trumpeters of Bach - Toccata & Fugue in D minor the Band of the Royal Logistics Corps Mussorgsky - Great Gate at Kiev Handel - Hallelujah Chorus Widor - Toccata Elgar - Land of Hope and Glory

Saturday 28 October at 7.30pm Royal Philharmonic Orchestra English Concert Chorus Carmina Burana Highgate Choral Society Royal Choral Society Returns by popular demand -witness Orff’s choral Southend Boys’ Choir extravaganza performedbyover 400 voices. Andrew Greenwood conductor Rossini - William Tell Overture Jennifer Pike violin Jennifer France soprano

Bruch - Violin Concerto No.1 sep17 Thomas Walker tenor Orff - Carmina Burana David Kempster baritone

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Curious about how our visitors Meet our Instagrammers: see the Barbican and the @tobishinobi surrounding neighbourhood, @londonlivingdoll we invited six Instagrammers @justanotherdayin to explore the Centre @mitna29 through their lenses. Armed @thealexx09 with a smartphone and @liamfarquhar their own unique style, our Instagrammers took us on Different Instagrammers, a variety of photographic different photographs –

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Images: 1. Barbican Conservatory by @thealexx09 10. Robert Henke’s Lumière III by 2. Richard Mosse: Incoming by @justanotherdayin @justanotherdayin 11. Art Gallery foyer by @justanotherdayin 3. Barbican Conservatory by @mitna29 12. Manana//Cuba: Afro-Cuban 4. Blanca Li Dance Company’s Robot by Collaborations by @liamfarquhar @justanotherdayin 13. Royal Ballet’s Les Enfants Terribles by 5. British Sea Power: Music for Polish @londonlivingdoll

Animation Classics by @thealexx09 14. The Japanese House : Architecture and Life News 6. The Japanese House: Architecture and Life after 1945 by @mitna29 after 1945 by @liamfarquhar 15. Architecture Tour by @tobishinobi 7. Architectural details by @mitna29 8. Architecture Tour by @liamfarquhar 9. Royal Ballet’s Les Enfants Terribles by Instagrammers in Residence @londonlivingdoll 2 3 News Sep 2017 Basquiat: Boom for Real autumn exhibition. of our ahead Basquiat Michel of Jean- impact explosivethe discusses Hayford Casely- Augustus Cultural historian © Robert Carrithers Robert Carrithers.Jean-MichelBasquiatoutsideTodd’s Copy Shop,New York, 1980. in a cataclysmic paroxysm paroxysm acataclysmic in own imagination detonated his until dissolved, categories culture until once cast-iron accelerating across traditional innovation creative of waves sent He conventional. the and esoteric the fusing orthodoxy, thrilling output eviscerated and eighties, his prolific and seventies late the through that he touched. Ripping spheres creative the of many reconfigured that explosions and artistic intellectual of aseries triggered Basquiat Jean-Michel adecade, than more little In … real for –Boom BOOM … then –and tongue the on fleeting tang of electricity and tart –the short burns fuse the sparks, flint the down, ticks clock The

and left each altered. value and deem worthy of Ultimately however, they serious consideration. were fodder to further his greater project of dissecting Basquiat understood value

the way that we perceive, – he escaped homelessness Sep 2017 categorise and give value. to become an internationally acclaimed artist in a handful ‘A magnificent of years. Perhaps driven theatre of alternate by memories of his difficult childhood, by a hope that possibilities, those early years would simultaneously not define his adult life, he beautiful and approached his career with shocking, both a pathological application. Blessed with a defining talent, thrillingly nascent he rapidly found success, and yet ancient‘ while the residual pain of childhood lingered as an While he was recuperating important catalyst for his after being hit by a car, practice. He understood the his mother bought the tension between his race and young Basquiat a copy his gift, he knew what his talent of Gray’s Anatomy. This meant, what his Blackness, Victorian exploration of the his Haitian, his Puerto Rican mechanics of the human and once African ancestry body left him obsessed could connote to the artworld, with ideas of dissection and and how this ethnicity could reconfiguration. Throughout be used to limit his progress his career he nurtured a – but he also knew how he forensic interest in forcing might deploy his identity that looked backward with us to think about how we for optimum impact. These such ferocity that it became might pull apart and remake gifts made him attractive to the future. And Basquiat intellectual disciplines. He many of the most interesting left behind a cultural arena looked at history as a cadaver figures of the time, Andy that was transformed by his that could be deconstructed Warhol, David Bowie and brief, but brilliant, presence. and reanimated to suit us. Blondie among many others. Searching beyond traditional During his early years of ‘He looked at western sources of artistic success, Basquiat’s volcanic history as a inspiration, Basquiat found an talent was more than a alternative plane upon which counterbalance to his cadaver that could to build his art, borrowing demons, but those anxieties be deconstructed and refashioning punk, rap, intensified until ultimately, like and reanimated ancient Egyptian history and many of his contemporaries, traditional African art. From he was consumed by his own to suit us’ this other world he conjured ghosts. While there have a magnificent theatre of been other artists who have Although he died at 27, in alternate possibilities, reconfigured the creative his short life Basquiat made simultaneously beautiful and metric of their time, few did a telling contribution to the shocking, both thrillingly so with the explosive style cultural world, helping to nascent and yet ancient. It of Jean-Michel Basquiat. normalise a particular kind of beguiled with its flamboyant challenge to the intellectual brilliance and stunned with Basquiat: Boom for Real

status quo. Graffiti artist, its difference. This was 21 Sep 2017–28 Jan 2018 News painter, poet, DJ, philosopher, perhaps his Grand Project, musician – Basquiat took the forced reevaluation of See page 11 for details on creative disciplines with worth, the reconsideration

a sure-footed mastery of the things that we might 4 5 News Sep 2017 A New appointment. marking his special events of concerts and days ten Rattle, is This with off kicks School Guildhall the Barbican and with Association and Artist-in- Orchestra London Symphony of the Director Music year as first Rattle’s Simon Sir Beginning ‘We want to carry ‘We have to nourish Concerto for for Concerto Bartók’s and Mahler; on reflections its Tippett’s Boréades Rameau’s Les context. fresh a in one each he’s placing audience, –anew crucially – and orchestra anew with but life, musical his to central are that by works anchored is His mind.’ in season first I have things of type the of bar tapas ‘ fashion, typical it, in puts Rattle as –or amanifesto as but afanfare, as much so not festival opening this of Think new?”’ that’s do we can What next? say, “What’s They forward. look They back. looking of idea the to admit not will absolutely but history extraordinary an has –that LSO –the orchestra an with ‘I’m working now Rattle. says back,’ looks and history its of proud very is that orchestra an years, for Berlin in orchestra extraordinary an with working ‘I’ve been aroutine. into settling of opposite the is Well, whatever inspirational. But what then? be to going It’s community. creative awider in place his LSO, but the at Rattle’s arrival just not celebrate to designed and projects community music new of Grime, Helen and Elgar of Stravinsky, and Berlioz of days ten comprises Rattle is This aflourish. with be will it Orchestra, Symphony London the of Director Music as baton the up picks Rattle Simon Sir When on bringing music to music bringing on everybody’ the ground up’ from form art this The Rose Lake Rose The sits next to Schubert; Schubert; to next sits throws throws a See pages 27–32 details for pages See Sep 14–24 Rattle is This everybody.’ to music bringing on carry to want War, World we Second and the after written were that these incredible masterpieces We tackle to want arts. across We go to want theatre. the in We work to want yesterday. written music play to want we and music, early play to want ‘We says. he start,’ the only is I’m this sure things. extraordinary do can we where city extraordinary this in spaces other find we that is idea ‘The too. does, LSO the what it’s on, now from and does, Rattle what Ambitious? It’sModern. just Tate at Turbine Hall the in sonic Gruppen spectacular immersive Stockhausen’s of prospect 2018 the hall, holds Looking beyond the concert and Guildhall. the at the Barbican Association Artist-in- also is Rattle why to as example an – and up’ ground the from form art this nourish to have We ‘Another no-brainer. – possibilities expanding to Rattle’s commitment of McBurney, proof further Gerard communicator musical great by the directed be will latter The musical exiles. greatest world’s the of by some America wartime in created collaborative alongside the extraordinary, Orchestra is performed is performed

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6 News Sep 2017 7 News Sep 2017 Woyzeck in Winter Jenny Gilbert explores a new production of expressive extremes but by director Conall Morrison, who prone to go out of tune. The set resembles a Caspar has combined two masterpieces David Friedrich landscape,

of the early 19th century to form a a mountainside built of Sep 2017 remarkable piece of music theatre. disused pianos, embedded at the centre of which is the Steinway, which provides the The great works of music and more and more intriguing. show’s essential soundtrack. drama, for all that we mentally Subjecting the material to the file them away in sealed workshop process (‘another ‘The piano becomes boxes, share connections that way of saying we kicked it a metaphor can still surprise us. Woyzeck in around’) convinced him that Winter is a fusion of two early play and song cycle together for Woyzeck’s 19th-century masterpieces could create a new entity, mind – a complex whose similarities are one that shed light all round. machine capable uncanny. Woyzeck, the play of expressive by Georg Büchner, and Die ‘The set resembles Winterreise, the song cycle by a Caspar David extremes but prone Franz Schubert set to poems to go out of tune’ by Wilhelm Müller, were Friedrich landscape, written within nine years of a mountainside built In casting Woyzeck in Winter, one another. Each was the of disused pianos’ Morrison has looked for seminal work of a troubled actors who ‘have their own genius who died young. Each Woyzeck in Winter not black magic, with voices that narrates the course of one only takes the bold step of are raw, honest, colourful, man’s obsessive thoughts and removing Schubert’s songs alive, that bring not beauty his downward slide towards from the traditional recital- and polish to the lyrics, but dissolution. The play is a room setting, but also, more immediacy.’ Leading the cast, collection of 24 scenes, the controversially, it puts them in Patrick O’Kane and Camille song cycle 24 songs. Placed the mouths of actors. While O’Sullivan are extraordinary side by side, playscript and aware that he risks being performers by any measure. lyrics could be said to be accused of disrespecting having a conversation. the art of lieder singing, Might the combined dose of Morrison contends that using Schubert and Büchner merely ‘Placed side by non-classical voices along double the misery? Not a side, playscript with a new English translation bit, Morrison says. ‘Although ‘unlocks a kind of rough both the original works are and lyrics could be honesty’ in the poetry. The shot through with pain and said to be having a music drives Büchner’s play, heartbreak, neither Woyzeck conversation’ which in turn becomes a kind nor the singer of Winterreise is of ballad opera, inhabiting prepared to go gently. There The Dublin-based theatre a storytelling world closer is in both a strange sense of director Conall Morrison has to that of Bertold Brecht exhilaration about the soul’s spent many years absorbing and Kurt Weill, or even journey into the dark. It’s like a both works. Büchner’s play, Nick Cave or Tom Waits. fearsome embrace. The stakes which follows the struggles are high, the passions are of a put-upon foot soldier Schubert’s songs are threaded strong, the struggle is intense.’ in the German-Austrian through the drama, some sung army, ‘grabbed him by the by the Woyzeck character, Woyzeck in Winter throat’ with its energy, its others by his faithless lover 13–16 Sep vividness, its darkness. He Marie. Some are reprised, See pages 35–36 for details

came to Winterreise (Winter’s some sung in chorus, others News Journey) soon after, and the performed by piano alone. two works became a twin The piano becomes a obsession, Morrison finding metaphor for Woyzeck’s mind 8 Image © Alex Sapienza Alex © Image the parallels between them – a complex machine capable Nicholas Kenyon, Managing Director of Now is the time to draw all the Barbican Centre and a member of this history, innovation and achievement together in a the City of London Corporation’s Cultural groundbreaking initiative as

Sep 2017 Hub Working Party, introduces a new the arts, heritage and culture initiative in the north-west of the City. organisations in the northwest of the City – from Farringdon

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For more than 35 years, the of London, the Guildhall to Moorgate – come together Barbican has been a beacon School of Music & Drama, to launch CULTURE MILE: of adventurous culture in and LSO St Luke’s, as well as a a major destination for the the City, offering an ever- unique range of heritage sites culture of today in the heart widening range of world- and buildings including the of London’s financial district. class arts and learning to an Roman wall and fort, medieval increasingly diverse audience churches and livery halls, and Our part of the City is in London and beyond. distinguished contemporary changing radically. The arrival Living up to our vision of buildings by leading architects. of Crossrail in the north of the ‘arts without boundaries’, we City in 2018/19 will transform have expanded our activities ‘The Barbican has the area with new transport and reached a whole new been a beacon of links stretching east and west. News generation of audiences. There will be new Elizabeth adventurous culture Line stations on both sides of We have always been part of in the City’ the Barbican at Farringdon the thriving life of this area of and Moorgate/Liverpool

9 London, home to the Museum Street that, together with ‘This is just the the just is ‘This ‘We have expanded partnerships that already that already partnerships flourishes. There are many and matters creativity where City the of We area an in are welcome accessibility. providing numbers, increased for ready be to need we alike; enthusiasts cultural and Barbican residents, visitors This is a huge benefit to hubs. transport and airports unrivalled to access London’s interchange, will provide Farringdon new the at lines Thameslink the north–south our activities and and activities our audiences’ the story’ beginning of new generation of a wholereached out on this exciting journey. set we as us with work will you We hope generations. of LondonCity for future the of role the redefine to and partners stakeholders to engage with opportunity the have we all, for access provide will that Museum the of site present the on Music for aCentre create to vision Smithfield, and the ambitious Museum of London in west development of a new the story. With the major of beginning the just is This cyclists. and pedestrians for facilities improve to targets City with line in neighbourhood, our of look future the for ground the test to installations and art pop-up of interventions experimental be will there and improvement, for candidate obvious an is Street Beech of roadway covered The area. the of enhancing the look and feel to and signage wayfinding much-debated our rethinking from realm, public the improve to need the recognises of London Corporation development, the City this leading boldly In and opportunities. of inspiring experiences range ahuge to access ages all of people offering learning, of a destination create to together work will we City, the across available already programmes cultural extraordinary the on Expanding welcome. of asense create and buildings our between spaces the animate to also but audiences, to activities our present to way, only not coordinated more amuch in work will we now –but Barbican the with LSO; the Museum of London the with School Guildhall – the institutions the across operate ‘We are in an area area ‘We an in are of the City where where City of the and flourishes’ and Welcome to matters creativity Culture Mile

10 News Sep 2017 11 Listings Sep 2017 Business Members +guest Unlimited free entryfor Business Membership Unlimited free entryfor Members+guest Membership Plus Unlimited free entryfor Members Membership on 0207638 8891 barbican.org.uk orcallBox Office Check onlinefor afullrange of discounts Under 14s free Young Barbican£5 Students/14–17 £10 Concessions £12 Standard £16 Tickets Thu–Sat 10am–10pm Sun–Wed 10am–6pm Opening times Gallery Art

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See website for more details family visits. tours andworkshops suitable for schoolsand school visits,alongsideafullprogramme of An activity sheetisavailable for family and Learning Creative Real for Boom Basquiat: 21 Sep–28Jan,Across theCentre official hotel partnerisAceHotel London. fund of theLondonCommunityFoundation. The by Cockayne Grants for theArts,adonor-advised from Momart.Thepublicprogramme issupported Phillips andtpbennett,withadditional support The exhibition issponsored by NET-A-PORTER, with theSchirnKunsthalle Frankfurt. Art Galleryandorganised incollaboration Buchhart and Eleanor Nairne, Curator, Barbican Basquiat: Boomfor Real iscurated by Dieter death at27in1988 have beenenormous. an artistwhoseimpact andinfluence sincehis material, theexhibition captures thespiritof rare photography, film footage andarchive literature, film andtelevision. Incorporating focus onBasquiat’srelationship witmusic, in theUK.Thisisalsofirst exhibition to private collections,many never before seen works from international museumsand an outstanding selectionof more than100 This unprecedented exhibition bringstogether Haring andBlondie,amongothers. musician, whoworked withAndyWarhol, Keith creativity of thisself-taught artist,poet,DJ and New York artscene.Engage intheexplosive the pioneeringprodigy of the1980s downtown Discover thework of Jean-MichelBasquiat, Real for Boom Basquiat: 21 Sep2017–28 Jan2018, ArtGallery

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Jean-Michel Basquiat, Self Portrait, 1984. Acrylic and oil stick on paper mounted on canvas. Private collection. © The Estate of Jean-Michel Basquiat. Licensed by Artestar, New York Art 12 Sep 2017

Jean-Michel Basquiat, Moses and the Egyptians, 1982. Acrylic and oil stick on canvas. Guggenheim Bilbao Museoa. Gift of Bruno Bischofberger. © The Estate of Jean-Michel Basquiat. Licensed by Artestar, New York Listings 13 Architecture on Stage Magnum Photos Now

Mon 11 Sep 7pm, Frobisher Auditorium 1 Tue 26 Sep, Frobisher Auditorium 1 Angela Deuber Beyond the Bible: Sep 2017 Angela Deuber is an award-winning Swiss Jonas Bendiksen presents architect based in the Alpine city of Chur, Canton The Last Testament Grisons. Her office started with the conversion of Two years ago Magnum photographer a late medieval house (2010) and has continued Jonas Bendiksen started a personal project to to create projects of significant tectonic chronicle seven men who all publicly claim to presence, including the school building in Thal, be the biblical Messiah returned. In this unique Canton St Gallen (2013) and the house on the presentation, Bendiksen presents the photo- Outer Hebrides, Scotland (2013). The architect graphs and stories he has collected, exploring will present the themes of her architecture based the boundaries of religious faith and a world in on analytical drawings and recent projects. need of salvation. Tickets £15 Tickets £10

Mon 18 Sep 7pm, Theatre Tom Emerson (6A) Tom Emerson founded award-winning practice 6a with Stephanie MacDonald in 2001. The practice has developed an international reputa- tion for a portfolio that has a strong focus on commissions for arts spaces including Raven Row (2009), the South London Gallery (2010) and the extension of the MK Gallery, in Milton Keynes (2015). Recent projects include Cowan’s Court, a residential block for Churchill College, Cambridge (2016) and a studio for fashion photographer Jeurgen Teller, in west London (2016), recently awarded RIBA Regional Awards and London Building of the year 2017. Tickets £15 The Architecture Foundation, in association with the Barbican, presents Architecture on Stage – a programme of talks and debates Art 14 New Releases Release dates are correct at the time of going to press but are subject to change at short notice. Please check online closer to the time. Sep 2017

From Fri 1 Sep God’s Own Country#

Film The life of a sheep farmer is turned upside down, when he begins an intense relationship with a Romanian migrant worker in the Yorkshire dales. An incredible debut from writer-director Francis Lee. UK 2017 Dir Francis Lee 104 min

From Fri 1 Sep The Limehouse Golem15 When a series of gruesome murders shake the community, all fingers seem to point towards a legendary creature from dark times named ‘The Golem’. A gothic murder mystery staring Bill Nighy, Olivia Cooke and Douglas Booth. UK 2017 Dir Juan Carlos Medina 109 min

Tickets From Fri 8 Sep New releases The Work# Standard £12 Barbican Members £9.60 Court videographer Jairus McLeary offers a Concessions £11 unique glimpse into the lives of inmates serving Corporate Members receive 25% off time at Folsom State Prison, as they meet with standard price tickets people from the outside world during the prison’s intensive group therapy programme. Under 18s £6 Monday Madness £6 US 2017 Dirs Jairus McLeary, Gethin Aldous 87 min Student Tuesdays £5 Parent and Baby Screenings £6 For 3D titles add £2 From Fri 15 Sep plus booking fee* Journey Through Events French Cinema# See individual events online for details Filmmaker Bertrand Tavernier directs and prices this love letter to French cinema, taking Young Barbican us on a journey through the films, actors, 14–25? Join our discount scheme for free and directors, writers and cinematographers get cinema tickets to new release films for just £5 who mean so much to its history. (Mon–Thu) France 2017 Dir Bertrand Tavernier 190 min *Booking fee per online transaction 60p; 70p telephone booking fee per transaction. No Listings fee when tickets are booked in person or for Members and Young Barbican Members * Local classification

15 # Certificate to be confirmed Sep 2017

Victoria and Abdul

From Fri 15 Sep Film Podcast Victoria and Abdul# Listen to our podcast featuring inspiring Judi Dench takes on the role of Queen interviews with filmmakers, stars and film Victoria in the latest film from Stephen experts, and get the inside scoop on this Frears, which depicts the true story of the month’s new releases and seasons. monarch’s unlikely friendship with a young Listen at barbican.org.uk/film/podcast Indian clerk named Abdul (Ali Fazal). US/UK 2017 Dir Stephen Frears Parent and Baby Screenings Enjoy the best new films every Monday From Fri 22 Sep morning with your little ones of twelve months Borg/McEnroe# and under. Our specially tailored screenings Janus Metz Pedersen brings to life the have gentle lighting and sound, creating a legendary sporting dual between Björn comfortable environment. Please see our Borg and John McEnroe in this tense drama, website for full details. Sign up to our Parent starring Shia LaBeouf and Sverrir and Baby mailing list at barbican.org.uk Gudnason as the iconic tennis rivals. £6 plus booking fee* Sweden/Denmark/Finland 2017 Dir Janus Metz Pedersen Relaxed Screenings One Friday afternoon ieach month we screen From Fri 29 Sep a new release film or a performance cinema The Party# encore in a specially tailored environment for Timothy Spall, Cillian Murphy and Kristin adults who may be on the autistic spectrum, Scott Thomas make up an excellent ensemble have Tourette Syndrome, anxiety, sensory difficulties or other learning disabilities. cast in this tragi-comedy from Sally Potter, in Film which a celebration has tragic consequences. Friends and carers are very welcome, too. UK 2017 Dir Sally Potter 71 min To find out more about the screenings and to download your visual story before visiting, please

go to www.barbican.org.uk/relaxedscreenings 16 Special Events and Seasons Sun 10 Sep 4pm, Cinema 1 Strike12A Sun 3 Sep 3.30pm, Cinema 1 + Live piano accompaniment

Sep 2017 London SymphonyU* by Wendy Hiscocks + Live musical accompaniment Silent Film and Live Music by the Covent Garden Sinfonia Using historical experiments in the art of montage alongside rapid editing, Sergei + Panel discussion Eisenstein’s landmark first film tells the story of a workers’ revolt in a factory in Czarist Russia. An Silent Film and Live Music exemplary film of Russian revolutionary cinema. Alex Barrett presents a brand new artistic USSR 1925 Dir Sergei Eisenstein 82 min snapshot of London as it stands today, a city symphony celebrating its culture and diversity, £11.50–12.50 plus booking fee* followed by a discussion with the filmmakers Part of Cinema Matters: Collective Visions and London history specialist Mark Rowland. UK 2017 Dir Alex Barrett 72 min From 10 Sep, Cinema 2 & 3 £11.50–12.50 plus booking fee* Collective Visions Cinema Matters Thu 7 Sep 7.45pm, Cinema 2 We look at film’s ability to bring people together John Le Carré Live: forming collective identities, and how cinema An Evening with facilitated and inspired ideologies, revolutionary George Smiley12A ideas and dissident voices. Screenings include Gillo Pontecorvo’s The Battle of Algiers and Featuring readings from his new novel Barbara Kopple’s Harlan County, USA. alongside a rare question and answer session, John Le Carré shares the secrets £9.50–10.50 plus booking fee* behind the creation of his most beloved characters, live from the Royal Festival Hall. Tue 12 Sep 6.45pm, Cinema 1 £14–15 plus booking fee* The Substance (La Substància)PG* Sat 9 Sep 12 noon, Cinema 3 + ScreenTalk with Lluís Galter (via Skype) Which Way Up Architecture on Film with John McLean# In 2010, Chinese developers decided to build A moving portrait of one of Britain’s foremost a replica of Cadaques – a small Spanish abstract painters, John McLean, as he coastal town beloved by Salvador Dalí – for continues his exceptional work as an artist, 15,000 of their own citizens. Blurring fiction despite being diagnosed with Parkinson’s and documentary, this film follows the strange disease. teleportation of a town from one continent to UK 2017 Dir Michael Proudfoot 78 min another, exploring what ‘place’ really means. £9.50–10.50 plus booking fee* Spain 2016 Dir Lluís Galter 86 min £11–12 plus booking fee* Curated by The Architecture Foundation Listings * Booking fees Booking fee per online transaction 60p; 70p by phone. No fee when tickets are booked in person.

17 The booking fee may be reduced on certain events 17–24 Sep, Cinema 1 This is Rattle In celebration of Sir Simon Rattle’s return

to London, we screen Making of a Maestro, Sep 2017 the first documentary about Rattle’s career; Rhythm is It, which focusses on a project undertaken with the Berliner Philharmoniker, and Kenneth Branagh’s Henry V, for which Rattle conducted the music. £9.50–10.50 plus booking fee*

Tue 19 Sep 6.15pm, Cinema 2 Dr StrangelovePG + Presentation by Professor Sandra Chapman Science on Screen How much do we rely on complex, interconnected global systems? Can the most terrible of outcomes always be contained? Sandra Chapman, Professor of Physics, grapples with these In the Heat of the Night questions before a screening of Stanley Kubrick’s nuclear comedy masterpiece. Tue 26 Sep 8.30pm, Cinema 3 12A UK/US 1964 Dir Stanley Kubrick 103 min In the Heat of the Night £9.50–10.50 plus booking fee* Scintillating, suspenseful and justly acclaimed, this murder mystery creates two unlikely allies out of a wily redneck police chief (Rod Steiger) and Tue 26 Sep 6.45pm, Cinema 2 a sophisticated northern city detective (Sidney Adrian Wootton’s Hollywood Poitier), as they set out to solve a hate crime. Legends: Sidney Poitier US 1967 Dir Norman Jewison 108 min Members’ Talk £8.50–9.50 plus booking fee* Adrian Wootton, CEO of Film London, continues his exclusive Members’ series, Wed 20 Sep 7pm, Cinema 2 tracing the life of Sidney Poitier, one of the PG most celebrated screen actors in US history, The Artist + ScreenTalk with from his groundbreaking performances to Ludovic Bource his work as a director and humanitarian. Oscar Scores £9 ticket includes drink Composer Ludovic Bource joins us to discuss his Academy Award-winning score, after a screening of Michel Hazanavicius’s critically acclaimed love- letter to the magic of silent cinema. France 2011 Dir Michel Hazanavicius 100 min £14–£15 plus booking fee*

Produced in collaboration with the Academy Film of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences 18 Sep 2017

The Grime and the Glamour: Remembering CBGBs

Wed 27 Sep 6.30pm, Cinema 2 From 29 Sep, Cinema 3 School Number 3 15 * The Grime and the Glamour: New East Cinema NYC 1976–90 Teenagers from a school in Ukraine’s Donbass Get a taste of the scuzzy and blisteringly share their innermost hopes, fears, desires and creative streets of late 1970s and 1980s New memories to camera. While the war between York, with a season of films that take us back to Russia and Ukraine is never mentioned, it forms Jean-Michel Basquiat’s home town. Screenings an unspoken epicentre around which individual include hip-hop classic Wild Style, and Jim stories – full of emotion – coalesce. Jarmusch’s first feature, Permanent Vacation. Ukraine/Germany 2017 Dirs Yelizaveta Smith, £8.50–9.50 plus booking fee* Georg Genoux 116 min Complementing Basquiat: Boom For Real New East Cinema is a film series presented 21 Sep–28 Jan. See page 11 for details in collaboration with Calvert 22 Foundation, curated by The New Social: a cultural collective bringing contemporary cinema Framed Film Club: from eastern Europe and beyond. Jamila Gavin Presents … £9.50–10.50 plus booking fee* Every Saturday at 11am, we’ll be screening one of author Jamila Gavin’s favourite family films, including Ratatouille, The Secret World of Arietty and a special presentation of The Adventures of Prince Achmed with live musical accompaniment. On the final Saturday of the month, come along for our free Framed Extra creative workshop in the Cinema 2 & 3 foyer, led by an artist and inspired by the film.

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19 The booking fee may be reduced on certain events Performance Cinema/Encores Fri 15 Sep 12.30pm, Cinema 3 Angels in America Part 2: 15 Fri 8 Sep 12.30pm, Cinema 3 Perestroika Angels in America Part 1: Relaxed screening Sep 2017 Millennium Approaches15 The second part of Tony Kushner’s multi- award-winning play, in a screening specially Relaxed Screening tailored for adults who may be on the autistic A chance to see Andrew Garfield, Denise spectrum, have Tourette Syndrome, anxiety, Gough and Russell Tovey star in the first part sensory difficulties or other learning difficulties. of Tony Kushner’s multi-award-winning play, £5, carers go free in a screening specially tailored for adults who may be on the autistic spectrum, have Tourette Syndrome, anxiety, sensory difficulties or other Wed 20 Sep 7.15pm, Cinema 3 learning difficulties. The Magic Flute12A £5, carers go free Royal Opera House Live Mozart’s glorious opera is brought enchantingly Wed 13 Sep 8.30pm, Cinema 1 to life in David McVicar’s production, with David Gilmour Live at Pompeii beautiful sets by John Macfarlane. David Gilmour performs live in the £21 plus booking fee* legendary Roman amphitheatre at Pompeii, featuring astonishing music from his solo career alongside Pink Floyd classics. A true Thu 28 Sep 2pm, Cinema 2 audio-visual spectacle screened in 4K. Vincent Van Gogh £14–15 plus booking fee* Afternoon Arts Enjoy complete and unprecedented access to the Thu 14 Sep 2pm, Cinema 2 treasures of Amsterdam’s Van Gogh Museum. Made in collaboration with the gallery’s curators, Eugene Onegin the film marks the major rehang of the gallery’s Afternoon Arts collection. We start our Afternoon Arts series with a £9.50–10.50 plus booking fee* production of Tchaikovsky’s heart-rendering opera live from the Vakhtangov State Academic Theatre of Russia, created and directed by the Thu 28 Sep 8.30pm, Cinema 3 renowned Rimas Tuminas. Black Sabbath: # £9.50–10.50 plus booking fee* The End of the End After nearly 50 years, the biggest name in heavy metal, Black Sabbath, perform in Sun 17 Sep 1.45pm, Cinema 2 their home city for the last time, bringing Yerma down the curtain on a final tour that no National Theatre Encore one thought would ever happen. Featuring unparalleled insights from the band, alongside The incredible Billie Piper (Penny rare live tracks from Angelic Studios. Dreadful, Great Britain) returns in her Olivier award-winning role, as a young £14–15 plus booking fee* woman who is driven to the unthinkable by her desperate desire to have a child.

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Fri 1 event venue page Wed 20 event venue page 10am–10pm Into the Unknown: 7.30pm This is Rattle: Helen Grime Milton Court 30 A Journey through Science Fiction The Curve 7pm Oscar Scores:The Artist PG + ScreenTalk with Ludovic Bource Cinema 2 18 Sat 2 See website for more details 7.15pm Royal Opera House Live: The Magic Flute Cinema 3 20 7.30pm Jim Jarmusch Revisited Theatre 33 Sun 3 3.30pm London Symphony Thu 21 + Live musical accompaniment Cinema 1 17 10am–10pm Basquiat: Boom for Real Art Gallery 11 5.30pm This is Rattle: The Making of a Maestro Cinema 1 30 Mon 4 See website for more details 6pm This is Rattle: Fanfares Foyers 30 7pm London Symphony Orchestra: This is Rattle Hall 30 Tue 5 See website for more details 7.30pm Jim Jarmusch Revisited Theatre 33

Wed 6 See website for more details Fri 22 10am–10pm Basquiat: Boom for Real Art Gallery 11 Thu 7 1pm BBC Radio 3 Lunchtime Concert LSO St Luke’s 31 7.45pm John Le Carré Live: 6.30pm BBC Radio 3 Rush Hour Concert LSO St Luke’s 31 An Evening with George Smiley Cinema 2 17 7pm Guildhall Symphony Orchestra Milton Court 31

Fri 8 See website for more details Sat 23 10am–10pm Basquiat: Boom for Real Art Gallery 11 Sat 9 11am Framed Film Club: Azur and Asmar – 11am Framed Film Club: The Adventures of The Princes’ Quest Cinema 2 19 Prince Achmed + live accompaniment Cinema 2 19 7.30pm This is Rattle: Birtwistle Milton Court 31 12 noon Which Way Up with John McLean Cinema 3 17 7.30pm The Magnetic Fields: 50 Song Memoir Hall 33 Sun 24 8pm Julius Eastman Memorial Dinner LSO St Luke’s 33 10am–6pm This is Rattle: Grand Finale Foyer 40 10am–6pm Basquiat: Boom for Real Art Gallery 11 Sun 10 12.15pm This is Rattle: LSO On Track Hall 31 4pm Strike + Live Piano Accompaniment 4pm This is Rattle: Rhythm is It Cinema 1 32 by Wendy Hiscocks Cinema 1 17 5pm This is Rattle: Fanfares Foyers 30 7.30pm The Magnetic Fields: 50 Song Memoir Hall 33 6pm London Symphony Orchestra: This is Rattle Hall 30 Mon 11 event venue page Mon 25 event venue page 7pm Architecture on Stage: Angela Deuber Frobisher Auditorium 1 14 10am–6pm Basquiat: Boom for Real Art Gallery 11 7.30pm London Schools Symphony Orchestra Hall 32 Tue 12 6.45pm Architecture on Film: The SubstancePG* Cinema 2 17 Tue 26 10am–6pm Basquiat: Boom for Real Art Gallery 11 Wed 13 6.45pm Adrian Wootton’s 7.45pm Woyzeck in Winter Theatre 35 Hollywood Legends: Sidney Poitier Cinema 2 18 8.30pm Stage Russia: Eugene Onegin Cinema 2 20 7pm Magnum Photos Now: Beyond the Bible Frobisher Auditorium 1 14 7.30pm Jane Birkin Gainsbourg Symphonic Hall 33 Thu 14 8.30pm In The Heat of the Night Cinema 3 18 2pm Stage Russia: Eugene Onegin Cinema 2 20 7pm Live relay of LSO concert Sculpture Court Cinema 28 Wed 27 7.30pm London Symphony Orchestra: This is Rattle Hall 27 10am–6pm Basquiat: Boom for Real Art Gallery 11 7.45pm Woyzeck in Winter Theatre 35 6.30pm New East Cinema: School Number 3 Cinema 3 19 7.45pm After the Rehearsal/Persona Theatre 37 Fri 15 7.30pm BBC SO/Sibelius Symphonies Hall 32 1pm BBC Radio 3 Lunchtime Concert LSO St Luke’s 28 12.30pm Relaxed Screening: Angels in America Cinema 3 20 Thu 28 6.30pm BBC Radio 3 Rush Hour Concert LSO St Luke’s 29 10am–10pm Basquiat: Boom for Real Art Gallery 11 7.45pm Woyzeck in Winter Theatre 35 2pm Afternoon Arts: Vincent Van Gogh Cinema 2 20 7.30pm Midori Takada Milton Court 34 Sat 16 7.45pm After the Rehearsal/Persona Theatre 37 10.30am–3.30pm LSO Discovery Day: Faust in Music Barbican 40 8pm Miguel Araújo: a Portuguese national treasure Hall 34 11am Framed Film Club Cinema 2 19 8.30pm Black Sabbath: The End Of The End Cinema 3 20 2.30pm Woyzeck in Winter Theatre 35 7.30pm This is Rattle: Knussen Milton Court 29 Fri 29 7.45pm Woyzeck in Winter Theatre 35 10am–10pm Basquiat: Boom for Real Art Gallery 11 12.30pm LSO Discovery: Free Lunchtime Concert LSO St Luke’s 32 Sun 17 7.30pm Kayhan Kalhor & The Rembrandt Trio Hall 34 10am–5pm Opera in a Day: The Faust Legend LSO St. Lukes 40 7.45pm After the Rehearsal/Persona Theatre 37 1.45pm National Theatre Encore: Yerma Cinema 2 20 8pm nitroBEAT Pit Party The Pit 38 3pm This is Rattle: Henry V Cinema 1 29 5pm LSO Sing Choral Fanfares Foyers 29 Sat 30 6pm London Symphony Orchestra: This is Rattle Hall 29 10am–10pm Basquiat: Boom for Real Art Gallery 11 10am Framed Film Club Extra Cinema 2 & 3 Foyers 19 Mon 18 11am Framed Film Club: The Secret World of Arietty Cinema 2 19 12.30pm This is Rattle: Free Lunchtime Concert LSO St Luke’s 29 7.30pm Sacred Imaginations 1 Hall 34 7pm Architecture on Stage: Tom Emerson (6A) Theatre 14 7.45pm After the Rehearsal/Persona Theatre 37 7.30pm This is Rattle: Adès Milton Court 32 8pm nitroBEAT Pit Party The Pit 38

Tue 19 6pm LSO Sing Choral Fanfares Foyers 29 6.15pm Science on Screen: Dr Strangelove Cinema 2 18 7pm London Symphony Orchestra: This is Rattle Hall 29

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Sep 2017

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14–24 Sep This is Rattle ... Ten days of concerts, special events and learning activities to mark Sir Simon Rattle’s first season as Music Director of the London Symphony Orchestra and as Artist-in-Association with the Barbican and Guildhall School.

Thu 14 Sep 7.30pm London Symphony Orchestra: This is Rattle

Classical Music Sir Simon Rattle launches the LSO’s 2017–18 season and This is Rattle celebrations with the very best of British music, bringing together five generations of our greatest composers. Helen Grime Fanfare (world premiere)† Thomas Adès Asyla * Booking fees Sir Harrison Birtwistle Violin Concerto Booking fee per online transaction £3; £4 by Oliver Knussen Symphony No 3 phone. No fee when tickets are booked in person. Elgar Variations on an Original Theme, Enigma The booking fee may be reduced for certain events London Symphony Orchestra All events take place in the Barbican Hall Sir Simon Rattle conductor unless otherwise stated Christian Tetzlaff violin † Commissioned for Sir Simon Rattle

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27 selected events 6.15pm, Foyers 14 Sep–22 Dec, Music Library The LSO Discovery Choirs perform celebratory choral fanfares Exhibition: Free entry, no ticket required Simon Rattle the Man Sep 2017 6.30pm, Foyers Musical organisations the world over have Ticket-holders are invited to a contributed photographs, scores, recordings Welcome Reception to enjoy a free and Rattle memorabilia. glass of sparkling wine to celebrate Free entry, no ticket required the launch of the 2017–18 season Curated by Martin Campbell-White and Ed Smith 7pm, Sculpture Court Cinema Produced by the LSO and Askonas Holt Live relay of LSO concert Enjoy an evening’s concert outdoors 14–21 Sep, Foyers as the LSO’s 2017–18 season opening concert is relayed live on to the BBC Radio 3 at the Barbican Barbican Sculpture Court Cinema. From concert hall to radio, find out what goes Tickets from £15 plus booking fee* into making live broadcasts at BBC Radio 3’s Live in Concert, and try your hand at presenting Produced by the Barbican and sound engineering. Free entry, no ticket required 14 Sep–7 Jan, Foyer, Ground Floor Produced by the Barbican, BBC Radio 3 and LSO Interlock: Friends Pictured Within Fri 15 Sep 1pm, LSO St Luke’s Public participation brings this new cross- BBC Radio 3 Lunchtime Concert arts multimedia installation to life. Trigger a variety of artistic responses to Elgar’s Ingrid Fliter – a former BBC Radio 3 New Enigma Variations – the greater the number of Generation Artist known for her insightful participants, the fuller the effect. interpretations of Chopin – is the first soloist featured in this series of Artist Spotlight recitals. Designed by Jonathan Munro and Anna Meredith. Chopin Nocturnes: Op posth in C-sharp minor Opening times vary, see website for details Op 9, No 1 in B-flat minor Produced by the Barbican Op 9, No 3 in B major Op 32, No 1 in B major Op 62, No 1 in B major 14 Sep–22 Dec, Foyers Op 55, No 2 in E-flat major Rattle Recast Op 48, No 1 in C minor Op 48, No 2 in F-sharp minor A projected installation with Sir Simon Rattle’s Op 62, No 2 in E major conducting at its heart. Motion capture data of his movements will create a digital display Ingrid Fliter piano transforming movement into music and Tickets £14 (£12 concessions) plus booking fee* information into art. Free entry, no ticket required Produced by LSO and the Barbican Classical Music 28 Fri 15 Sep 6.30pm, LSO St Luke’s Sun 17 Sep 3pm, Cinema 1 BBC Radio 3 Rush Hour Concert Henry VPG Veronika Eberle, who found international This is Rattle Film Programme

Sep 2017 acclaim at sixteen when Sir Simon Rattle The 1989 adaptation of Shakespeare’s history introduced her at the Salzburg Easter play – directed by and starring Kenneth Festival, joins the This is Rattle celebrations Branagh – features a sumptuous original with this special, early evening recital. score by Patrick Doyle, performed Locatelli Sonata in C minor for violin and by Sir Simon Rattle and the City of keyboard, Op 6, No 5 Birmingham Symphony Orchestra. Biber Passacaglia in G minor, UK 1989 Dir Kenneth Branagh 135 min The Guardian Angel JS Bach ‘Chaconne’ from Partita No 2 in Produced by the Barbican D minor, BWV1004 Tickets £10.50 plus booking fee* JS Bach Sonata for violin and continuo in E minor, BWV1023 Veronika Eberle violin Sun 17 Sep 6pm, Tue 19 Sep 7pm Jonathan Cohen harpsichord London Symphony Tickets £14 (£12 concessions) plus booking fee* Orchestra: This is Rattle From selling your soul to the devil to Sat 16 Sep 7.30pm, Milton Court finding salvation – Sir Simon Rattle leads the LSO in Berlioz’s tempestuous This is Rattle: Knussen oratorio, The Damnation of Faust. In the first of four concerts curated by Berlioz The Damnation of Faust some of Britain’s greatest contemporary composers, Oliver Knussen’s programme London Symphony Orchestra is inspired by Russian folk tales, Japanese Sir Simon Rattle conductor poetry and prehistoric landscapes. Karen Cargill Marguerite Bryan Hymel Faust Patrick Brennan Polly Roe Gerald Finley Mephistopheles Stravinsky Two Poems of Balmont Gábor Bretz Brander Stravinsky Three Japanese Lyrics London Symphony Chorus Sir Harrison Birtwistle Silbury Air Simon Halsey chorus director Knussen O Hototogisu! (London premiere) Tickets £15–55 plus booking fee* Stravinsky Renard Birmingham Contemporary Music Group Sun 17 Sep 5pm, Tue 19 Sep 6pm Foyer Performance Oliver Knussen conductor LSO Sing Choral Fanfares Tickets £10–25 plus booking fee* Free entry, no ticket required Part of Barbican Presents

Mon 18 Sep 12.30pm, LSO St Luke’s This is Rattle: Free Monday Lunchtime Concert In this special Monday Lunchtime concert, presenter Rachel Leach gives and informal introduction to the world of music-making with opportunities to

Listings put your questions to the musicians. Rachel Leach presenter Free entry, no ticket required 29 Mon 18 Sep 7.30pm, Milton Court Thu 21 Sep 5.30pm, Cinema 1 This is Rattle: Adès The Making of a Maestro# Thomas Adès enlists the talented musicians This is Rattle Film Programme of the Guildhall School to give voice to Marking his 60th birthday, this Sep 2017 eight of the 21st century’s most diverse 2015 BBC film follows a year of Sir and distinctive classical composers. Simo Rattle’s hectic schedule. Per Nørgård Hut Ab! UK 2015 Dir Andy King-Dabbs 55 min Nicholas Maw The Head of Orpheus Judith Weir The Alps Tickets £10.50 plus booking fee* Sir Harrison Birtwistle Célan settings Produced by the Barbican Niccolò Castiglioni Vallis Clausa György Kurtág Életút Osvaldo Golijov Sarajevo Thu 21 Sep 7pm, Sun 24 Sep 6pm John Woolrich A Farewell London Symphony Madness arr Adès Cardiac Arrest Orchestra: This is Rattle Guildhall Musicians An authority on Stravinsky, Sir Simon Richard Baker conductor Rattle continues the 2017–18 season Tickets £10–25 plus booking fee* opening celebrations with three of the composer’s revolutionary ballets. Part of Barbican Presents Stravinsky The Firebird (original ballet) Petrushka (1947 version) Wed 20 Sep 7.30pm, Milton Court The Rite of Spring This is Rattle: Helen Grime Sir Simon Rattle conductor Helen Grime responds to Rattle’s arrival with London Symphony Orchestra a richly programmed evening pairing her own Tickets £15–55 plus booking fee* works with Purcell and Stravinsky – composers who helped inspire and shape her artistic DNA. Sun 24 Sep Recommended by Classic FM Purcell Fantasia upon One Note Oliver Knussen, George Benjamin and Thu 21 Sep 6pm, Sun 24 Sep 5pm Colin Matthews A Purcell Garland This is Rattle: Fanfares Helen Grime Into the Faded Air Britten Sinfonietta Guildhall musicians perform fanfares in Helen Grime A Cold Spring the Barbican foyer ahead of the evening Thomas Adès Court Studies from The Tempest concerts conducted by Sir Simon Rattle. Oliver Knussen Songs without Voices Free entry, no ticket required Stravinsky Dumbarton Oaks Britten Sinfonia Jacqueline Shave violin/director Tickets £10–25 plus booking fee* Part of Barbican Presents Classical Music

Helen Grime © Amy Barton 30 Fri 22 Sep 1pm, LSO St Luke’s Sat 23 Sep 7.30pm, Milton Court BBC Radio 3 Lunchtime Concert This is Rattle: Birtwistle Soprano Olena Tokar presents a Ancient meets modern as Sir Harrison

Sep 2017 programme of songs by Viardot, Medtner, Birtwistle layers memories and echoing Rachmaninov and Schumann, as voices from across eight centuries in a part of the BBC Radio 3 residency during personally curated musical greeting to his September’s This is Rattle celebrations. long-time champion, Sir Simon Rattle. Olena Tokar soprano Varèse Octandre Igor Gryshyn piano Machaut arr Birtwistle Messe de Nostre Dame Sir Harrison Birtwistle Tickets £14 (£12 concessions) plus booking fee* Pulse Sampler Byrd Lamentations Sir Harrison Birtwistle The Moth Requiem Fri 22 Sep 6.30pm, LSO St Luke’s BBC Singers BBC Radio 3 Rush Hour Concert Martyn Brabbins conductor Philippa Davies flute BBC Radio 3 places the spotlight on Helen Tunstall, Hugh Webb violinist Esther Yoo, a BBC Radio 3 & Lucy Wakeford harps New Generation Artist, as part of its residency during This is Rattle. Tickets £10–25 plus booking fee* Ysaÿe Sonata No 3 in D minor for solo violin, Part of Barbican Presents Ballade Promoted by BBC Singers and the Barbican Grieg Violin Sonata No 3 in C minor, Op 45 Vaughan Williams The Lark Ascending (original version for violin and piano) Sun 24 Sep 12.15pm Trad Korean arr Jungyu This is Rattle: LSO On Track Park Milyang Arirang Young musicians from east London perform Esther Yoo violin alongside students from the Guildhall Robert Koenig piano School and LSO musicians in a concert Tickets £14 (£12 concessions) plus booking fee* celebrating the depth of their talent. Elgar arr Glyn Extracts from Variations Fri 22 Sep 7pm, Milton Court on an Original Theme, Enigma Stravinsky arr Glyn Extracts Guildhall Symphony Orchestra from The Rite of Spring The Guildhall Symphony Orchestra opens the London Symphony Orchestra new academic year with two celestial choral Sir Simon Rattle conductor works and Elgar’s famous musical sketches. LSO On Track Young Musicians Nicolai ‘Mondchor’ from Die lustigen Weiber Guildhall Musicians von Windsor Tickets £5 plus booking fee* Vaughan Williams Serenade to Music Elgar Variations on an Original Theme, Enigma 10.30am Foyer Family Activities Guildhall Symphony Orchestra and Free entry, no ticket required Chorus Vassily Sinaisky conductor David Vinden chorus master Tickets £5–15 plus booking fee* Promoted by Guildhall School of Music & Drama Listings 31 Sep 2017

Sun 24 Sep 4pm, Cinema 1 Wed 27 Sep 7.30pm Rhythm is It# BBC Symphony Orchestra/ This is Rattle Film Programme Sibelius Symphonies This 2004 film documents choreographer Launching a Finnish theme for the BBC SO’s Royston Maldoom, Sir Simon Rattle and 2017–18 season, Sakari Oramo conducts the the Berlin Philharmonic’s journey with 250 complete Sibelius symphonies, beginning this Berlin schoolchildren, as they unite to rehearse evening with the exhilarating Fifth Symphony. and perform Stravinsky’s The Rite of Spring. R Strauss Death and Transfiguration Germany 2004 Dir Thomas Grube & Berg Violin Concerto Enrique Sanchez Lansch 100 min Sibelius Symphony No 5 Tickets £10.50 plus booking fee* BBC Symphony Orchestra Sakari Oramo conductor Produced by the Barbican Alina Pogostkina violin Tickets £10–36 plus booking fee* Mon 25 Sep 7.30pm London Schools Fri 29 Sep 12.30pm, LSO St Luke’s Symphony Orchestra/ LSO Discovery: Free Friday Libeer plays Beethoven Lunchtime Concert Award-winning Belgian pianist Julien Libeer joins London’s premier youth ensemble as Rachel Leach gives an informal introduction soloist for Beethoven’s zestiest piano concerto. to the LSO and the world of music-making with LSO musicians and students from Britten Four Sea Interludes the Guildhall School, and opportunities Beethoven Piano Concerto No 1 to ask the musicians questions. Brahms Symphony No 4 Rachel Leach presenter London Schools Symphony Orchestra Peter Ash conductor Free entry, no ticket required Classical Music Julien Libeer piano Tickets £9–26 plus booking fee* Promoted by the Foundation for Young Musicians 32 33 Listings Sep 2017 on selected events Business Members receive discounts offers on selected events Members and Plusenjoy special stated otherwise unless Hall Barbican the in place take and Barbican by the produced are events All events certain for reduced be may fee booking The phone. Nofee whentickets are booked inperson. Booking fee peronlinetransaction £3;£4by *Booking fees Contemporary Music

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Thu 28 Sep 7.30pm, Milton Court Fri 29 Sep 7.30pm Midori Takada Kayhan Kalhor + Visible Cloaks & The Rembrandt Trio Immerse yourself in the ambient soundscapes + The Awj Trio of the Japanese composer and percussionist, East meets west in this poetic collaboration whose 1983 album Through the Looking Glass between the Iranian kamanchech player and was re-released this year. the Jazz ensemble. Tickets £20 plus booking fee* Tickets £20–25 plus booking fee* Sold out, returns only Part of Transcender Part of Transcender Sat 30 Sep 7.30pm Thu 28 Sep 8pm Sacred Imaginations 1: Miguel Araújo: A Portuguese New and Ancient Music of the National Treasure Christian East The first major UK concert for the prolific Susheela Raman and Sam Mills lead a singer/songwriter, whose delicate guitar sound journey through eastern music of ritual, trance is imbued with the power to lift the soul. and contemplation, alongside musicians from Syria, Greece, Russia and Ethiopia. Tickets £17–20 plus booking fee* Music Contemporary Produced by Deleted Scene and Primeira Linha Tickets £20–27.50 plus booking fee* Part of Transcender 34 35 Listings Sep 2017 on selected events Corporate Members receive discounts offers on selected events Members andPlusenjoy special The bookingfee may bereduced for certain events phone. Nofee whentickets are booked inperson. Booking fee peronlinetransaction £3;£4by * Bookingfees Theatre & Dance

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27–30 Sep, 7.45pm, Theatre Presented by the Barbican Toneelgroep Amsterdam Coproduced by Théâtre de la Place (Liège), Les Théâtres de la Ville de Luxembourg and Maison After the Rehearsal/Persona des arts de Créteil based on the films by Ingmar Bergman The production was realised in collaboration Two Bergman screenplays are reimagined for with Auteursbureau ALMO bvba commissioned the stage in a double bill about the chaotic lives by Josef Weinberger Ltd, London, and of theatre people, exposing the fine line between the Ingmar Bergman Foundation art and reality, illness and normality. Ivo van After the Rehearsal/Persona is supported by the Hove directs four actors on a set that transforms Performing Arts Fund NL and the Embassy of the from the sparse to the scenically breathtaking. Kingdom of the Netherlands 2 hours 50 mins/including an interval Age guidance 14+ (contains nudity) Performed in Dutch with English surtitles £16–40 plus booking fee* Listings The Netherlands *Booking fees Booking fee per online transaction £3; £4 by phone. No fee when tickets are booked in person.

37 The booking fee may be reduced for certain events 29 & 30 Sep, 8pm, The Pit 2 hours/including an interval nitroBEAT Age guidance 16+ nitroBEAT Pit Party – £15 plus booking fee*

Suckerpunch Boom Suite UK Sep 2017 Pioneering New York artist Jean-Michel Presented by the Barbican Basquiat is the source of inspiration for this fluid, theatrical gig, which unites a vibrant community of collaborators at the forefront of experimental sound, lyricism and physical poetry. Their pieces are set to free jazz, hip-hop, electronic and psychedelic funk played live by a band, engaging audiences in the party atmosphere. Theatre & Dance

Image © Nick Taylor and Dead Human Design 38 39 Listings Sep 2017 today atbarbican.org.uk/donate how you cancontribute to theBarbicanFund develop skills,confidence andcareers. Findout education programmes, you too canhelp By supportingfirst encounters andhigher unticketed unless otherwise specified. All Learningevents andactivities are free and Fund. the Barbican to donors and Patrons Barbican Drawers, Wyre Silver and Gold of Company Worshipful the Trust, Foundation, Foundation, SHM Tower UBS, Hill Paul Hamlyn Nomura, Youthfor Music, Charitable Foundation, The National Foundation Jr JPaul Getty Flanders, of Government The ofThe Embassy the Kingdom of the Netherlands, Trust, Bridge City &Overy, Allen England, generous Council who supporters, include Arts programme is made possible through our Creative Learning Guildhall Barbican The Learning From 14 Sep,Foyer, Ground Floor education. in arts the of value the proving and advocating of ways new find to continue we as School Associate each relationships byshaped with these in-depth be will offer our years, three next the Over projects. creative of programme wide-ranging and ambitious an deliver to staff teaching and Opening times vary, see website for details for website see vary, times Opening play. and discover to audience the for response toartistic Elgar’s masterpiece an captured have participants film, and in dance, music, illustration, art, poetry Within Pictured Friends Interlock: filmmaker beatboxer Complicite company theatre leading as such heritage of Barking and Dagenham, artists feminist rich the Celebrating movement. women’s the of suffrage anniversary year 100 the mark to School Russell Sydney at 18 classes with working 18 artists involving 18 working. This will include the exciting x 18 of ways new piloting whilst school each of needs individual the fulfil to programmes our adapting be will we two year into move we As work. our of impact the and education arts in needs current the about together learn we while programmes Learning Creative our all to access unprecedented received –have Garden The and School Russell Sydney School, Primary –Greenleaf Schools schools across London. east Our Associate remarkable three with innovatively work to pleased been has Learning Creative Guildhall Barbican year academic last the Over Elgar from London, east exploring Edward Anna Meredith Jonathan Munro by artist installation multimedia A new cross-arts, project, a year-long artistic residency residency artistic ayear-long project, ’s ’s Enigma VariationsEnigma Eelyn Lee Bellatrix

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, 21 Sep 2017–28 Jan 2018, Art Gallery Sat 30 Sep, Cinema 2 & 3 Foyer Basquiat: Boom for Real Framed Film Club Extra Creative Learning Get hands on with your little ones and a range

A downloadable teacher’s resource, an of engaging artists keen to show a younger Sep 2017 activity sheet and a series of workshops audience everything going on at the Barbican. for schools and families will be available Come along at 11am before the Framed Film to accompany Basquiat: Boom for Real. Club screening in Cinema 2 to get inspired Free with tickets to the exhibition Free See website for more details See page 19 for details

Sat 16 Sep 10.30am–3.30pm, Barbican Every Mon–Sat 11am–6pm, Sun 12noon–6pm LSO Discovery Day: Barbican public spaces Faust in Music The Big Barbican Adventure Attend a morning discussion about the Discover the secrets of the Barbican with this musical power of the Faust legend; then free, DIY, cryptic clue-solving, drawing and watch Sir Simon Rattle rehearse the LSO game based activity for a fun-filled hour of and the London Symphony Chorus learning and exploration. Suitable for families in Berlioz’s The Damnation of Faust. (6 years +). Tickets £20 (£16 concessions) Visit the Barbican Advance Ticket plus booking fee* Desk on the Mezzanine to begin See website for more details Free

Sun 17 Sep 10am–5pm, LSO St Luke’s Every Tue, Wed, Thu, Sat & Sun, Opera in a Day: times vary The Faust Legend Meet at Information Desk, Level G Spend the day making a brand new Architecture Tours opera based on the Faust legend, and Uncover the history and learn about the join in a final, informal performance. Barbican’s construction, design and influence Tickets £10 adults, £7 under-18s plus booking fee* with this 90 minute guided tour of the Centre Suitable for all ages over 8 and surrounding estate. You will never look at us the same way again. See website for more details Advance booking advised Tickets £12.50 (concessions available) Sun 24 Sep, Foyers See website for start times and more information This is Rattle: Grand Finale The final day of This is Rattle is a special Meet at Information Desk, Level G celebration with LSO Discovery family activities throughout the Barbican’s foyers. Backstage Theatre Tours Free entry, no ticket required Join this 60 minute tour led by our Barbican guides to peek behind the curtain and look at stage production and theatre from a new perspective. Refer to the website for available tours.

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