The Capstone Theatre Liverpool’s International Arts Venue Autumn Season October - December 2019 Events Calendar October December 6 Sunday 5pm LEAP Community Dance Showcase 5 Thursday 7.30pm Solid Air Band 8 Tuesday 8pm Rosie Kay Dance Company: Fantasia 7 Saturday 7.30pm Maghull Wind Orchestra: The agicM of Christmas 18 Friday 7.30pm John Law - Recreations 8 Sunday 2.30pm Liverpool Mozart Orchestra: 19 Saturday 7.30pm Harvest Sun Presents Robyn Hitchcock "A Seasonal Selection" 19 Saturday 7.30pm Liverpool Mozart Orchestra: 14 Saturday 7.30pm Allerton Brass: “The Grand Tour” It’s Beginning To Look A Lot Like Christmas November 8 Friday 7.30pm Machado Ithursarry Duo 9 Saturday 7.30pm Interactions: A Festival Of Voice (Featuring The Feral Choir/Phil Minton & Juxtavoices) 14 Thursday 7.30pm Natacha Atlas 15 Friday 7.30pm Reis-Demuth-Wiltgen 19-21 Tuesday - 7pm Shakespeare Schools Festival Thursday 22 Friday 7.30pm Marius Neset 24 Sunday 4pm Jacques Malchance & The Capstone Theatre Presents PIANO FORTE 26 Tuesday 7.30pm The rogF Princess Punked 29 Friday 7.30pm Belle Chen LEAP COMMUNITY ROSIE KAY DANCE COMPANY: 3 DANCE SHOWCASE FANTASIA Sunday 6th October 2019, 5pm Tuesday 8th October 2019, 8pm £8 (£6 concessions) £12 (£10 concessions) Where the artists of tomorrow are made. Following the success of MK ULTRA during vision of three bold female dancers as they MDI's annual celebration of the wealth LEAP 2018, Rosie Kay returns to Liverpool discover love, loss, emotion and joy. of talent across Merseyside returns as part for LEAP 2019 with her newest work. of LEAP 2019. Dancers from MDI's 50 In Fantasia, the Commonwealth Games Rosie Kay worked with neuroscientists in Moves, Men!Dancing! and Merseyside Handover Ceremony choreographer takes the UK and Denmark’s Center for Music in Youth Dance Company will be joined by ballet and tutus into the 21st Century using the Brain to explore how dance can trigger invited groups and dance artists from across dance and science to create an exquisite sensations of pleasure and fulfilment in the the North West to present new work. performance of pleasure, beauty and finesse. brain. Fantasia is the result of her desire to Fine-tuning choreography with neurological make a work of pure joy inspired by music Performers from previous years have gone research, Kay questions what it is that makes and the body’s response to it. on to be part of the CAT programme, dance beautiful to watch and experience. joined the National Youth Dance Company With truly sumptuous costumes that defy or been commissioned to create original Delve deeply into a soundtrack of Vivaldi, expectation, join us on a journey of music, dance works. Purcell, Beethoven and Bach and revel in the delight and fantasy. 4 JOHN LAW - RECREATIONS Known mainly for his Congregation, In a move away from electronics to this playing his original compositions, mixing purely acoustic group, ReCreations Friday 18th October 2019, 7.30pm jazz, and electronics, as well as classical presents music not just from the standard £11.50 projects, pianist and composer John Law jazz repertoire but also from pop and has put together a stunning new group of indie (Beatles, Radiohead, Adele and John Law - piano young musicians, playing arrangements Daft Punk). ReCreations is a band that Sam Crockatt - saxophones of other people’s tunes in a project that manages to play highly accessible melodic James Agg - double bass features Parliamentary Jazz Award Winner music and recognised tunes in extremely Billy Weir - drums Sam Crockatt on saxophones. creative and interactive arrangements, simple and complex, with an emphasis on spontaneous interaction in a group of highly versatile young musicians. One of the UK’s most imaginative and versatile jazz pianists International Piano Magazine, 2014 HARVEST SUN PRESENTS 5 ROBYN HITCHCOCK Saturday 19th October 2019, 7.30pm £17.60 Robyn Hitchcock is one of England's most enduring contemporary singer/songwriters and live performers. A surrealist poet, talented guitarist, cult artist and musician's musician, Hitchcock is among alternative rock's father figures and is the closest thing the genre has to a Bob Dylan (not coincidentally his biggest musical inspiration). Since founding the art-rock band The Soft Boys in 1976, Hitchcock has recorded more than 20 albums as well as starring in Storefront Hitchcock, an in-concert film recorded in New York and directed by Jonathan Demme. Blending folk and psychedelia with a wry British nihilism, he describes his songs as ‘paintings you can listen to’. His most recent album is self-titled and marks his 21st release as a solo artist. Released on April 21st 2017, the new album was produced by Brendan Benson (The Raconteurs). Hitchcock describes it as an "ecstatic work of negativity with nary a dreary groove." A gifted melodist, Hitchcock nests engaging lyrics in some of the most bracing, rainbow-hued pop this side of Revolver. He wrests inspiration not from ordinary life but from extraordinary imaginings... Rolling Stone 6 LIVERPOOL MOZART ORCHESTRA: LMO’s 2019/20 season begins with a pair of horn concertos and a pair of symphonies. The orchestra is delighted to welcome international horn virtuoso “THE GRAND TOUR” Alec Frank-Gemmill as soloist/conductor for his debut with them. The concert begins with the second of Mozart’s four concertos for horn, followed by the thirty- Saturday 19th October 2019, 7.30pm sixth of his forty-one symphonies. The symphony was written during a stopover (pre-concert talk at 6.45pm) in the Austrian town of Linz on his and his wife's way back home to Vienna from Venue: The Great Hall, Salzburg. Upon hearing of Mozart’s arrival in Linz the local Count announced a Liverpool Hope University Creative Campus concert at short notice, so Mozart dashed this symphony off in just four days! £15 (£13.50, £5 concessions) The second concerto is that of Franz Strauss, father of the more famous Richard. Strauss, who was the principal horn of the Bavarian Court opera until 1889, had a Mozart - Horn Concerto No.2 strong preference for the traditional classical forms, which comes across in the music. Mozart - Symphony No.36 “Linz” He had a mutual dislike of Richard Wagner but even Wagner, who was never short Franz Strauss - Horn Concerto of a terse remark, said, “Strauss is a detestable fellow but when he blows his horn one Mendelssohn - Symphony No.4 “Italian” cannot sulk with him.” Conductor/Horn: Alec Frank-Gemmill The final work is Mendelssohn’s fourth and most popular symphony known as the “Italian”. The opening movement is an absolute joy, and even the fourth movement, which unusually is in the minor key despite the symphony being in the major, does not dampen the spirits as it incorporates dance figures from the Roman saltarello and the Neapolitan tarantella. It brings the concert to a lively conclusion. MACHADO ITHURSARRY DUO 7 Friday 8th November 2019, 7.30pm £11.50 An emotional poetic journey for piano and Born in Bayonne in South West France, Didier In 2008, following an invitation by French accordion. Ithursarry discovered and started learning singer Stéphane Sanseverino to join him the accordion at the age of seven. Moving to on tour and winning the Gus Viseur jazz Jean-Marie Machado was born in Morocco, Paris in 1996 he worked in collaboration with award, he met pianist composer Jean-Marie from an Italian and Spanish mother and a singers, on projects in theatre and in jazz, and Machado. This marked the beginning of a Portuguese father. He discovered jazz in France also as a studio session musician. In 1998 he long and fruitful collaboration that has given and studied with the French classical pianist was invited by French jazz guitarist Claude rise to several musical projects including, most Catherine Collard. For 25 years he has been Barthélémy to join his quintet Sereine. Later recently, this duo. exploring different directions in jazz, classical that year he joined the National Jazz Orchestra composition and interdisciplinary projects (ONJ) from 2002 to 2005. In 2006 he created mingling dance, theatre and storytelling. a duo Bilika with singer and percussionist Along the way he has collaborated with Andy Kristof Hiriart. Sheppard, Dave Liebman, Paolo Fresu and Naná Vasconcelos and has established himself at the first rank of the European jazz sphere. He is currently in residency as an ‘affiliate composer’ at the Centre des Bords de Marne of Perreux-sur-Marne/Paris. The complicity between Machado and Ithursarry is amazing. Both musicians play together as if they had known each other for a long time, and also as if they had just met the day before. There is telepathy and freshness in their exchanges. Jean-François Mondot, Jazz Magazine 8 INTERACTIONS: A FESTIVAL OF VOICES (FEATURING THE FERAL CHOIR/PHIL MINTON & JUXTAVOICES) Saturday 9th November 2019, 7.30pm £10 (£5 concessions) This concert will include two performances The scores provide a structure, but elements of choral music informed by the artistic of improvisation shape the details so that no sensibilities of free improvised music. two performances will ever be the same. Poetry is sound allied to meaning, and a multi-voice The Feral Choir is the name for a group of ensemble offers a fascinating way to hear this. singers formed for a particular performance, Directed by Martin Archer and Alan Halsey, so for this particular performance, the choir is Juxtavoices uniquely combines the outer reaches formed in Liverpool. Leading the Feral Choir is of improvised music and innovative poetry. internationally acclaimed vocalist Phil Minton. As well as pursuing his own performing career For anyone interested in what people can create as a vocalist, Minton has a wealth of experience together using the most natural instrument, the as a choral director, leading others to find new human voice, this concert is for you.