Classical and Jazz: Latest News > October 14
Published: 14 October 2010
by SEBASTIAN TAYLOR
THERE'S such an amazing number of really interesting concerts coming up that it’s going to be very hard deciding where to go. Kings Place has the Remix mini-fest showing how composers recycle musical ideas. As Stravinsky said: “A good composer does not imitate, he steals.”
Tomorrow ( Friday), the London Sinfonietta is playing arrangements of pre-20th century music by modern composers along with the world premiere of Anna Clyne’s new version of Britten’s Hymn to the Virgin.
Saturday lunchtime has the KX Collective of young musicians in Islington and Camden responding to the Remix programme and, in the evening, there’s a Music as Theft concert showcasing works based on older musical ideas.
Sunday morning, there’s a family-friendly fundraiser at Lauderdale House for the Elias Fawcett Trust that helps to fund performances by young musicians in and around London.
Sunday evening at the Barbican, the premiere of a new Michael Nyman film – a remake of Vertov’s iconic Man with a Movie Camera – is being accompanied the composer/ film-maker and his band.
Monday evening at Wigmore Hall, amazing Dutch mezzo-soprano Christianne Stotijn is singing a wonderful programme contrasting Schumann and French songs, accompanied by pianist Imogen Cooper. Monday evening at the Coliseum, the ENO is launching the first of its autumn crowd-pullers, Jonathan Miller’s acclaimed La Boheme to be followed by a new Don Giovanni next month. The role of Mimi in La Boheme is being sung by Elizabeth Llewellyn, the Jamaican-born soprano, the first winner of the new Voice of Black Opera Competition as well as the Sir Willard White award.
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