RAVEL Pavane pour une infante défunte
RAVEL Mother Goose
JOHN ADAMS Scheherazade.2 (UK Premiere)
John Adams conductor
Leila Josefowicz violin
London Symphony Orchestra
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LSO Platform: Guildhall Artists
Barbican Hall 6pm, free entry
JOHN ADAMS Chamber Symphony
Simon Wills conductor
Ubu Ensemble: senior Guildhall School musicians
Family Workshop: Reveal Ravel
Fountain Room 6.15pm, £5 children £10 adults (including entry to the concert)
Suitable for 8- to 14-year-olds
A workshop for younger audience members, exploring Ravel's Mother Goose Suite before the concert.
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Essential American composer John Adams brings his own take on storytelling to the Barbican including a new dramatic symphony for violin and orchestra.
Performed by close collaborator and new music champion Leila Josefowicz, Adam’s latest work takes the idea of the original Scheherazade into the present day and 'imagines a modern woman storyteller/hostage whose strength of character and powers of endurance are tested over and over'. There are more traditional tales to be told in the first half with Ravel’s youthful ballet score Mother Goose, featuring Sleeping Beauty, Tom Thumb and Beauty and the Beast.