This document provides a summary of events taking place at Kings Place from September to December 2010. It highlights several classical music concerts celebrating Schumann's bicentenary. It also advertises jazz, folk, art and spoken word events. New regular series are introduced, including The Base for jazz and Folk Union for traditional folk music. The London Restaurant Festival will also be hosting events at Kings Place in October.
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WHAT’S ON SEPTEMBER–DECEMBER 2010
SCHUMANN BICENTENARY
NATALIE CLEIN AND
FRIENDS CELEBRATE
A TROUBLED GENIUS
Classical
Stravinsky Remix
Dufay Collective
Claire Booth
Terry Riley
Jazz
Mike Figgis
Django Bates
John Taylor
Folk
Peggy Seeger
June Tabor
Kevin Burke
Art
David Bailey
Albert Irvin
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Kings
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curated by a wide range of
in store this autumn, we’ve
the London Chamber Music
Kings Place is unique in
in the front section, read our
on Friday nights, presenting a
publication to help guide you
contemporary music concerts
We also have regular classical
holding weekly ‘mini-festivals’
Society, on Mondays Out Hear
in-depth features or follow the
imaginative performing artists.
whole range of musicians from
music on Sunday evenings from
jazz, folk, contemporary, spoken
events (Words on Monday), with
word, comedy and art highlights
day-by-day listings and calendar
created this fuller, more detailed
and a rich range of Spoken Word
lively Thursday night comedy, Off
through. You can locate classical,
As we have a packed new season
two new regular series: Folk Union
Welcome
This season we are introducing
at just £4.50.
Add to this our Art and
July), led by some of the top
After the summer break
a new jazz strand, The Base,
traditional folk legends to the
lights of the global jazz scene.
we launch the season with our
organisations in children’s arts
events, which will include face-
in four days, with tickets priced
Before our autumn season
on Sea Family weekend (24–25
Following our own Festival,
exciting new wave that is now in
Sculpture galleries, and our high
heating up Hall Two with leading
full flow, and, on Saturday nights,
it’s no surprise that Kings Place is
kicks off, we have our Kings Place
workshop and contemporary dance.
September) featuring 100 concerts
annual Kings Place Festival, (9–12
quality restaurants and cafés, and
painting, boat trips, puppet shows,
this up-and-coming area of London.
becoming a dynamic arts venue for
street ping-pong, a ‘Be a Young DJ’
(18 October).
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documentaries about the Darbar
was successfully presented here,
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Festival of Exploratory Music and
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Peter Millican
(14–16 October).
which launches a year-long
2011 with a Mozart concert,
rooms available • Event management • Bespoke wedding planning •
of the Age of Enlightenment
celebration of Mozart’s music.
Looking ahead, we have a
broadcast live on BBC Radio 3,
the Royal Philharmonic Society
Check out the website for more
details (www.kingsplace.co.uk).
music events to suit every taste
resident ensembles, for winning
(see p48) and we’ll be heralding
Ensemble of the Year. Don’t miss
Remix, their unique collaboration
We also want to congratulate
stunning programme of Christmas
the London Sinfonietta, one of our
with fellow residents the Orchestra
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Conferences for up to 420 people • Dinners for up to 220 guests • Small meeting
Birthdays and family parties • Intimate dinners • Barbeques and outdoor events
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08 HIGHLIGHTS September—December 2010 020 7520 1490 www.kingsplace.co.uk September—December 2010 CLASSICAL 09
SIX ALFREdS IN SEARCH
CLASSICAL
It was Stravinsky who unforgettably said, ‘A good composer does Fast-forward to the 21st century, and
not imitate, he steals’, and that’s the inspiration behind Remix (14–
16 October). The London Sinfonietta (LS) and the Orchestra of the
the practice of recycling is alive and well,
as Friday’s LS concert Cover Versions will
CLASSICAL HIGHLIGHTS
Age of Enlightenment (OAE) do not make obvious bedfellows: one is
the UK’s foremost contemporary music group, the other a peerless
period instrument ensemble. In fact, it’s not the first time they have
prove, with an array of works in which
the composers have used source material,
often from the distant past: Tom Adès
27 September–
2 OctOber
Schumann
11–13 NOvember
Aldeburgh
Highlights
OF A pERFORMANCE…
worked together (composer Heiner Goebbels created Songs of on Couperin, Birtwistle using Ockeghem, Bicentenary Britten and Beyond, the Classical opera Company present a unique
Wars I have Seen for them in 2007), but it is the first time they’ve Sciarrino inspired by Machaut, Bussotti Featuring Lucy Parham, incl. Hebrides Ensemble
shared a stage at Kings Place. Says Andrew Burke, Chief Executive by Puccini, and the young composer Anna Natalie Clein, Ann performance of thomas Arne’s masque Alfred.
of the London Sinfonietta, ‘The earliest music we tend to play is Clyne with a new arrangement of Britten’s Murray, Jennifer Pike. 14 NOvember
early 20th century, while the latest the OAE play is usually late 19th Hymn to the Virgin. It’s telling that living lcms
3 OctOber Turner Ensemble
century, so there’s a potential cross-over period there’ – into which composers are attracted to the more Thomas Arne, whose 300th formal.’ they will be sung by a fine
lcms
Stravinsky (almost) fits. distant, pre-Classical period when seeking anniversary will be marked in cast of young British singers including
Wihan Quartet 21 NOvember
The final concert will offer a rare opportunity to hear the inspiration. The title ‘Remix’ might suggest lcms November by the Classical opera thomas hobbs as King Alfred and
actual source material for Stravinsky’s delightful burlesque on the electronics, DJs and decks, but in fact the 4 OctOber Chilingirian Quartet Company, has become something Mary Bevan as Queen Eltruda.
Baroque, Pulcinella. For too long it has been wrongly attributed to orchestras are challenging that perception out hear of a historical footnote, known Sadly, many of Arne’s works
Pergolesi alone, when in fact Stravinsky was also borrowing ideas and showing that music has eaten itself Scarlatti:Cage:Sonatas 25–27 NOvember solely for his rousing, innocently were lost, several destroyed by a
David Greilsammer
from Gallo, Monza and Wassanaer. For the climax of the evening, since time immemorial. Innocence & jingoistic ‘Rule! Britannia’. this theatre fire. one that survived in
the OAE will switch to modern instruments and join forces with the Experience does a very gifted dramatic part was his hugely popular opera
LS for the full ballet suite. 7–9 OctOber composer a grave disservice, since Artaxerxes, premiered at Covent
Transition_projects
On 14 October, the OAE present their own 18th-century version Remix 14–16 October. London Sinfonietta Classical Opera this ‘grand ode’ is but one number Garden in 1762, which received a
of daylight robbery in Baroque Reinventions. As programmer/ & Orchestra of the Age of Enlightenment. Company from the entertaining Alfred, which staggering total of 111 performances
1–4 December
violinist Roy Mowatt explains, Handel used 18 of Gottlieb Muffat’s See Listings p59 for details. Focus on Arne will be given two unique before 1790. the Classical opera
Italians in Paris
works in 30 of his own: ‘Handel clearly had a lot of respect for performances at Kings Place Company’s 2009 production at the
14–16 OctOber Quatuor Mosaïques,
Muffat. There’s everything from orchestrations of his keyboard Felicity Lott, (7, 9 october). Unique, explains Royal opera’s Linbury theatre
pieces to using Muffat as an initial stimulus with the finished work Remix Carolyn Sampson conductor Ian Page, because he received rave reviews, and they
bearing only a hint of the original.’ Also in this concert there will
be some beautiful reworkings of Pergolesi by JS Bach. ‘Bach would HIGHLIGHTS London Sinfonietta &
Orchestra of the Age of
Enlightenment
5 December
will be creating a performing
edition specifically for hall one:
will be launching the cast
recording at Kings Place in an
have seen nothing odd in transforming a Catholic Italian work into a lcms ‘there are six versions of Alfred in insight evening, with special guest
Protestant German piece,’ explains Mowatt. Quartet for Peace existence, as Arne didn’t quite soprano Elizabeth Watts and
17 OctOber
He is keen to point out that this practice has only been viewed lcms settle on whether it was a masque musicologist Roderick Swanston.
with suspicion relatively recently: ‘The concept of a composition as Sitkovetsky Trio
12 December or an opera – it’s a minefield!’
lcms
a definitive art work only arrived in the 19th century. The way 18th- Aquinas Piano Trio
– but one he will enjoy picking his
century composers reworked and arranged their own and others’ 25 OctOber way through to create a libretto (to Classical Opera Company
compositions shows a different ethic, more akin to jazz: the work out hear be read by an actor) to link the 7–9 October. Arne’s Alfred;
15–18 December
is still recognisable even though it may be vastly transformed and Counterpoise northern lights: early choruses and arias. ‘the great Artaxerxes; Pergolesi’s Stabat
subject to improvisation in performance.’ Actaeon music festival thing about Arne was his melodic Mater. See Listings p58.
by David Matthews Joglaresa, Ensemble gift,’ enthuses Page, ‘he wrote in a
Meridiana, Dufay Scene from
really fluent, charming way, made
Collective, The Clerks Artaxerxes at
28,29 OctOber accessible by the fact it’s in the Linbury
london guitar festival Theatre earlier
in the fall 20–23 December English.’ Written in 1740, Alfred
this year.
belongs to the world of handel but
David Russell Ivor Setterfield’s
‘has a simplicity and folksiness
Nigel North Christmas
that’s very appealing. the arias
Concerts
REMIX: A CASE
31 OctOber tend to be shorter than handel’s,
Barts Chamber Choir,
lcms swifter dramatically and less
New London Singers,
Rosamunde Trio
OF MUSICAL
Orchestra of St John’s
3–6 NOvember 31 December,
lifem
RECYCLING London 1 JaNUarY
International New Year Mozart
Festival of Orchestra of the Age of ARNE IS ONLY
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Stravinsky’s Pulcinella forms
Enlightenment
Exploratory Music with Sophie Bevan kNOwN FOR
Photo ERIC RICHMOnD, HARRISOn & CO.
the centrepiece of a unique
Terry Riley,
George Brooks;
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collaboration between Kings Pulcinella by Talvin Singh; bRITANNIA’ bUT
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Maurice Sand. Gavin Bryars;
Place’s two resident orchestras, Coloured engraving by
A Manceau, 1859. Wim Mertens; HE wAS A GIFTEd
Pascal Comelade
as Helen Wallace discovers. Lisa Beznosiuk
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