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Clyne Works Astride the Atlantic Anna Clyne, Born in the UK and Resident in New York, Has a Lively International Schedule of Orchestral Performances October 2018 Clyne works astride the Atlantic Anna Clyne, born in the UK and resident in New York, has a lively international schedule of orchestral performances. During the 2010s Anna Clyne has developed The nocturnal theme is also explored in This into a sought-after composer of symphonic Midnight Hour which reflects on poetry by music, with an output also encompassing Jiménez and Baudelaire and has received over powerful chamber pieces with electronics, 30 performances since its premiere in 2015. intimate string ensemble works and colourful These include its Austrian, Italian, Swiss and UK scores forging musical links with art or dance. premieres last season and its German and Clyne’s music has been championed on the Swedish premieres this season. rostrum by Marin Alsop and Riccardo Muti, as well as by an emerging generation of conductors including Elim Chan, Alpesh Chauhan, Ben “An artist who writes Gernon, Cristian Măcelaru, Enrique Mazzola, from the heart, who Robert Trevino and Joshua Weilerstein. defies categorization…” A good introduction to Anna Clyne is her popular Riccardo Muti concert-opener Masquerade, commissioned for the Last Night of the BBC Proms in 2013, which draws upon the array of dance music presented Clyne has a special affinity with strings, as heard at 18th century concerts in London’s pleasure in two widely performed ensemble works, Within gardens. It has enjoyed over 40 performances to Her Arms and Rest These Hands. These were date, including those conducted by Marin Alsop in followed by the double violin concerto Prince Europe, the US and South America, while it of Clouds and the imaginary ballet for violin and continues to be heard on UK TV as the theme orchestra The Seamstress which weaves together Photo: Javier Oddo music for BBC Proms telecasts. folk fiddling and poetry by Yeats. Her collaboration with artist and stop motion animator Josh Night Ferry dates from 2012 during Clyne’s celebrates the victory of summer over winter with travelling onwards to Tivoli in Copenhagen and the Dorman, The Violin, combining music and film, residency with the Chicago Symphony Orchestra electronic auras adding a timeless bloom to the Mozartfest in Würzburg. was released as a DVD in 2014. and is described by the composer as “music of orchestral sound. The work charts the Celtic festival Clyne’s most recent scores include Abstractions, voyages, from stormy darkness to enchanted In recent years Anna Clyne has been reconnecting which Clyne attended as a student, witnessing the an orchestral suite inspired by five contemporary worlds”. The 20-minute score receives its Swedish with Scotland where she studied at Edinburgh dramatic procession of actors, drummers, dancers artworks, and a mandolin concerto for Avi Avital, premiere next April with Edward Gardner University. Beltane, premiered last year by the BBC and fire jugglers. The Scottish Chamber Orchestra Three Sisters. For futher information and a list of conducting the Royal Stockholm Philharmonic. Scottish Symphony under Thomas Dausgaard, tours Within Her Arms in the UK next spring, works visit www.boosey.com/clyne. the immortality of the soul?), is an uncanny Lindberg prediction of his own murder in Paris in 1983, Vivier describing not the fear of being dead but Triumph to exist rather that of dying. Twelve voices from Choeur in Paris Solistes XXI are joined by three synthesizers and percussionists from the Ensemble Intercontemporain under the baton of Stéphane Grapperon. A concert of ensemble and chamber works featuring Shiraz, Bouchara and Pulau Dewata tracks Vivier’s journey of influences along the Silk Road and onwards to Bali. Peter Sellars brings Vivier’s ‘ritual opera of death’ Buddha statue (Dreamstime) Kopernikus to three French stages, opening at Over 30 million pages of music are now available from nkoda, the new subscription service for The Festival d’Automne in Paris is presenting a the Théâtre de la Ville in Paris on 4 December digital sheet music launched this summer. Boosey major feature on the music of Claude Vivier, and travelling on to the Nouveau Théâtre & Hawkes linked up with nkoda soon after its culminating in a staging of Kopernikus directed by de Montreuil and the Théâtre du Capitole in Photo: Philip Gatward inception in 2015, and has collaborated Peter Sellars. The past decade has seen a growth Toulouse. All performances feature the seven throughout its development. The App is now Magnus Lindberg’s new work for choir and of interest in the Canadian-born composer, with voices of Roomful of Teeth together with seven available for iPad, iPhone, Android tablet, Android orchestra, Triumf att finnas till… (Triumph to performing groups rising to the challenge of his instrumentalists of L’Instant Donné. exist…), is a 20-minute setting of Swedish- phone, MacOS and Windows 10, and is currently music and audiences responding to its beauty and The astronomer of the title represents the point language poetry by the Finnish writer Edith available in 11 languages: English, Chinese, vision. Nine works by Vivier are programmed in where man’s perception of his place in the Södergran. The first performance is given on 10 Spanish, Russian, French, German, Portuguese, Paris, ranging across his output from solo piano to cosmos shifted. Vivier replaces drama and November by the London Philharmonic Orchestra Polish, Italian, Japanese and Korean. full orchestra, alongside music by Dusapin, Murail characters with a ritual of purification of the mind and Choir conducted by Vladimir Jurowski, The catalogue of 7,000 Boosey & Hawkes scores, and Grisey. through fire and water. As Peter Sellars writes: following on from Lindberg’s residency with the built from the company’s earliest days, and “Vivier’s music finds a peace beyond peace, orchestra between 2014 and 2017. The work is ranging from Richard Strauss through Iannis sacred rest in metaphysical action. The visionaries co-commisioned by the LPO, 14-18 NOW, the Xenakis to Steve Reich, was the first to be “I want art to be a sacred are arriving. We no longer need to be afraid.” Gulbenkian Orchestra, Orchestre National de Lille licenced to nkoda. 51 other publishers from and the Finnish Radio Symphony Orchestra. art, the revelation of Kopernikus received its first Argentinian staging across the world have followed this lead, and at the Festival Nueva Opera in Buenos Aires The seven poems were selected in the light of the forces…” Claude Vivier more are joining the platform every month. Each in August and a new production opens at the centenary of the end of World War I but they also score is available in full and with all performing Staatsoper in Berlin on 18 January. Other Vivier celebrate the triumph of humanity in the face of parts: 70,000 in total, and with more added by Events opened last month with a performance highlights this season include a feature at the adversity, as explained by the composer: “I am nkoda’s team of musicologists every day. of Orion by the Orchestre National de France Casa da Música in Porto with Orion and particularly drawn to the work of Edith Södergran Scores can be saved for offline use, annotated conducted by Cristian Măcelaru. Offering a good Siddhartha in the New Year. Performances who was the first Finnish modernist poet, and like and shared with other subscribers, and playlists entry point for orchestras wanting to explore Vivier’s of his haunting Lonely Child for soprano and me, was part of the Swedish-speaking community can be stored and shared. Subscribers’ own music, this work summons up the constellation on orchestra can be heard in Cologne in January of Finland. The opening poem, Triumf att finnas sheet music can be uploaded and integrated into the celestial equator by deploying a wide-ranging and Stockholm in May. till…, was written by her in 1916, in the middle of melody, repeated in mantra fashion. The composer their library. For a free trial of nkoda and to explore the catastrophe and despair of World War I.” captures the illusion of stasis within travel, “as if in For full information on Paris events visit the riches of our catalogue online, visit . “Despite the world events of the time, which are an airplane standing still”. www.festival-automne.com www.nkoda.com/boosey_and_hawkes surely the unspoken background to this poem, its Siddhartha, which Vivier based on the novel by meditation on the transience of life is a defiantly Hermann Hesse, is imaginatively paired with positive affirmation of the joy of existence, the Mahler’s Das Lied von der Erde in a concert by the Inside this issue… outpouring of one who refuses to submit to the Orchestre Philharmonique de Radio France under hopelessness all around her. For me, it says Olari Elts. Completed after Vivier’s studies with something deeply essential about the tragedy of Stockhausen, the work spatially divides the millions of young men that gave their lives in that orchestra into eight chamber groups and alludes useless slaughter. They were deprived of the to the Buddha-like spiritual journey undertaken by simple human triumph to merely exist. Every Hesse’s lead character, predicting the composer’s syllable cries out to be set to music.” own quest to the East in search of enlightenment and rebirth. Reich Jenkins Goldschmidt Andriessen Magnus Lindberg is resident composer with the Interview about The Armed Man Beatrice Cenci New staging of Orchestre National de Lille, launched with the Vivier’s final work, Glaubst Du an die Music for Ensemble offers a global production at Writing to Vermeer French premiere of TEMPUS FUGIT last month. Unsterblichkeit der Seele? (Do you believe in and Orchestra plea for peace Bregenz Festival in Heidelberg Reich Music for Ensemble and Orchestra Steve Reich introduces his new score combining ensemble and in double sixteenths, the canonic writing between but Music for Ensemble and Orchestra is the flute and principal violin and the way motivic back to plan A, running continuously at orchestra, which is premiered in Los Angeles in November fragments are thrown back and forth – these quarter note = 100, but with changing note and travels to London and Sydney this season.
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