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Just came across this article, from which this is a short extract:- LANDMARK NONO AND MESSIAEN FESTIVALSSouthbank Centre will stage two major festivals in the 2007/8 classical season working in partnership with the Resident Orchestras. Running from October 2007 through to March 2008, Luigi Nono – Fragments of Venice is a five-month celebration of one of the most important and influential composers of the 20th century. The festival has been planned in consultation with Nuria Schoenberg Nono, the composer’s widow, and daughter of Arnold Schoenberg. The climax will be two performances of his masterpiece Prometeo in the Royal Festival Hall, a UK premiere of this seminal work. The festival looks at this under-performed composer from many different aspects – Nono as a modernist, Nono as a major 20th-century Italian composer and figure and also explores the city of Venice and the huge influence it has had on artists and composers through the generations, including Nono. As well as working with other art forms across Southbank Centre, the festival is a collaboration with the Royal Academy of Music and includes artists such as Maurizio Pollini, the London Sinfonietta, Westminster Cathedral Choir and the Orchestra of the Age of Enlightenment. In addition to the music of Nono, the festival covers other Italian composers including Monteverdi, Vivaldi and Dallapicolla.
A major Messiaen festival will take place throughout 2008 when Southbank Centre will present a year of music in celebration of the centenary of his birth. Under the artistic direction of the pianist Pierre-Laurent Aimard, key interpreters of Messiaen’s music will converge on the site and across London, performing Messiaen’s music as well as that of his inspirations, pupils and associates. Aimard himself will be strongly featured as a soloist, and the year will begin and end with a visit from the Ensemble Intercontemporain (EIC) from Paris with Aimard as soloist. They will open the festival with the huge and colourful Des canyons aux étoiles under their new Music Director Susanna Malkki and, to round off the year in December, the EIC will give two concerts under the baton of Pierre Boulez: on 10 December, Messiaen’s actual centenary date and the second on 11 December, marking the 100th Birthday of Messiaen’s contemporary Elliott Carter. The festival also showcases further collaboration with Resident Orchestras, the Philharmonia Orchestra and the London Sinfonietta. Another key partner will be the Royal Academy of Music.Obviously this is great news - except that I'm about to leave the UK and live elsewhere!  With any luck, some of these productions - not least Prometeo, will also be seen in Europe - does anyone know if that is so? Also, is there a guide to what celebrations are taking place in France to mark Messiaen's centenary? I would dearly love to hear Pierre-Laurent Aimard play both Vingt Regards sur l'Enfant Jesus and the Catalogue d'Oiseaux. And, of course, I wonder how much of this will be heard on Radio 3. |
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« Reply #1 on: 21:42:31, 20-04-2007 » |
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This is very exciting, Tantris.
Unfortunately I will not be there for sure. I should not say there because one never knows.
Will they start in September and go on the whole academic year?
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« Reply #2 on: 21:59:46, 20-04-2007 » |
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"The climax will be two performances of his masterpiece Prometeo in the Royal Festival Hall, a UK premiere of this seminal work."
Its like the buses!
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« Reply #3 on: 23:19:27, 20-04-2007 » |
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Yes, it seems like a feast of Messiaen.
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« Reply #4 on: 23:44:56, 20-04-2007 » |
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The climax will be two performances of his masterpiece Prometeo in the Royal Festival Hall, a UK premiere of this seminal work. Its like the buses! Winged buses?!  |
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The city is a process which always veers away from the form envisaged and desired, ... whose revenge upon its architects and planners undoes every dream of mastery. It is [also] one of the sites where Dasein is assigned the impossible task of putting right what can never be put right. - Rob Lapsley
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TimR-J
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« Reply #5 on: 11:22:20, 21-04-2007 » |
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I believe a 'Woo!' is in order.
Excellent news.
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George Garnett
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« Reply #6 on: 16:26:18, 21-04-2007 » |
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'Woohoo' indeed! Just as I think I'm beginning to get weary and jaded, something exciting like this comes along to get the old juices flowing again. Thanks for the info, Tantris.
Incidentally, London (among other places obviously) has another Turangalila Symphony to look forward to from the Concertgebouw, Jansons and Thibaudet at the Barbican, 26 June 2008.
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« Reply #7 on: 21:13:32, 21-04-2007 » |
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Oooh. I knew about the Messiaen and Nono features (including the Prometeo premiere) a while ago but I've just spotted that the Sinfonietta will also give the UK complete premiere of Gerard Grisey's Les espaces acoustiques in one of the Messiaen festival concerts. For my money, one of the absolute key works of the last 35 years.
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The city is a process which always veers away from the form envisaged and desired, ... whose revenge upon its architects and planners undoes every dream of mastery. It is [also] one of the sites where Dasein is assigned the impossible task of putting right what can never be put right. - Rob Lapsley
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« Reply #8 on: 21:34:53, 21-04-2007 » |
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Incidentally, London (among other places obviously) has another Turangalila Symphony to look forward to from the Concertgebouw, Jansons and Thibaudet at the Barbican, 26 June 2008.
Thibaudet?  I saw him do it in Sydney once. Not at all to my taste. And he was wearing bright red socks. |
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George Garnett
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« Reply #9 on: 17:20:02, 28-08-2007 » |
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Details of the South Bank Nono Festival are now here: http://www.southbankcentre.co.uk/nono/ It seems to have turned into a wider sort of Venice-related Festival as well. |
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TimR-J
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« Reply #10 on: 22:54:20, 28-08-2007 » |
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Wot, no Four Seasons? That's not the Venice I (or anyone else who has vainly attempted to be a musical tourist there) knows...  |
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Ian Pace
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« Reply #11 on: 22:57:29, 28-08-2007 » |
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The festival looks very good, but the website needs some major corrections! Fragmente, Stille an Diotima is neither an early work nor features tape (unless there's some other version I don't know of), and I imagine someone other than Maurizio Pollini will be singing Djamila Boupacha (and there will be other musicians involved in A Floresta e jovem e cheja de vida, or for that matter in the Berg Four Pieces for Clarinet and Piano).
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'These acts of keeping politics out of music, however, do not prevent musicology from being a political act . . .they assure that every apolitical act assumes a greater political immediacy' - Philip Bohlman, 'Musicology as a Political Act'
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« Reply #12 on: 23:20:31, 28-08-2007 » |
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Yes, I like the look of the Nono festival, except...
I always thought of him as an intensely vocal composer - yet there seems to be a dearth of his vocal music in this festival.
Ah well, I'd trade that for a glimpse of Prometeo. That has to be the Nono piece I most want to hear live.
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« Reply #13 on: 23:32:39, 28-08-2007 » |
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Can't wait!
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jamesweeks
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« Reply #14 on: 23:53:28, 28-08-2007 » |
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When was Prometeo last done in this country?
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