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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



            YOUR FREE COPY     WWW.KINGSPLACE.CO.UK   TICKETS FROM £9.50 ONLINE
Private Dining Room for up to 24 people • Waterside Terrace •
                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                               Make Rotunda your local for




                                                                                                                                                                                  Great British Food – we have our own farm in Northumberland • Cocktail Classes
                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                               family and friends’ gatherings.




                             COVER PHOTO RAY BURMISTON
                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                     to




                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                   with their Heads!
                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                   in the back section.
                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                     Kings
                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                     Place!



                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                   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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                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                   events from Poet in the City
                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                   LIFEM: London International




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                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                   spheres. Sky Arts are making
                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                   have long dreamed of doing,




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                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                   Aldeburgh Festival Highlights,




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                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                   Stars, one of the most popular




                                                             E S                             R OM D                OR
                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                   Festival of Indian Music, which




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                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                   Place to put on the events they




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                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                   the Northern Lights Early Music
                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                   here this autumn, including the




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                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                   array of other fabulous festivals




                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                   and about the Spoken Word All
                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                   so it’s rewarding to see projects




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                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                   we’re delighted to be hosting an




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                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                   documentaries about the Darbar

                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                   was successfully presented here,
                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                   London Jazz Festival, the London




                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                   Festival of Exploratory Music and

                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                   Festival from York. New to the list




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                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                   entertaining debate (12 October).
                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                   Festival of South Asian Literature,




                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                        It has always been my aim to




                                                                  B AS        Z R       C                                                                                 IC LK &           A
                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                   give curators a free hand at Kings




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                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                   Guitar Festival in the Fall, the DSC




                                    W O CO D R R A W
                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                   pioneered here taking off in other
                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                   is the London Restaurant Festival,




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                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                   which has chosen Kings Place for an




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                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                    Enjoy!




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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




      90 York Way London N1 9AG event bookings: 020 7014 2838 events@kingsplaceevents.co.uk www.kingsplace.co.uk
                                                                                                                   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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 CLASSICAL                           JAZZ                                    FOLK                                CONTEMPORARY                   SPOKEN WORD                                                         COMEDY                              ART                                     FOOD & DRINK
	   HIGHLIGHTS                      	 HIGHLIGHTS	                           	 HIGHLIGHTS	                       	 HIGHLIGHTS                   	 HIGHLIGHTS                                                     	 HIGHLIGHTS                          	 HIGHLIGHTS                             	 HIGHLIGHTS
08  Stravinsky Remix                12 West Side Story Jessie               14 Welcome to The Wild Crowd        10 Dai Fujikura’s              16 Poet in the City                                              15 The Wisdom of                      18 Ruth Borchard’s                       20 Solution to
09  Thomas Arne’s Alfred                Buckley, new voice in jazz             Alistair Anderson on                Super-Collider              17 Twin Dynasties                                                   Peacock & Gamble                       Self-Portrait Collection                 the Sunday roast
24  COVER FEATURE                   13 Piano Man John Taylor,                  a bumper folk season             11 ELISION’s Mission              Fatima Bhutto &                                                  Two MCs have a                     19 The art of defying gravity            21	 Grape Expectations
    Soul to Soul                        a pianist and a gentleman           40 FEATURE                             Impossible                     Nayantara Sahgal                                                 chat about audiences                   Ann Christopher                          Meet the man behind
    Schumann’s bicentenary          32	 FEATURE		                              Unbroken Chain                   43 FEATURE                     47 COlUmn                                                                                              28 FEATURE                                   the wine list at the Rotunda
    with Lucy Parham (above)            Don’t Stop Me Now!                     Colin Irwin traces the rise of      Mikhail Karikis’s (above)      Mihir Bose on Cricket,                                                                                  The Skull Beneath the Skin               Restaurant
    and Natalie Clein                   Django Bates (above) hits 50           the folk movement.                  exploded opera Xenon           Commonwealth and Country.                                                                               Rachel Campbell-Johnston
38	 FEATURE		                           by John Fordham                        Sigrid Moldestad (above).        82 FEATURE                        The Nawab of Pataudi                                                                                    meets David Bailey.
    Eternity in an Hour             44		FEATURE		                                                                  Q&A: Terry Riley, still        (above).                                                                                                Shoe Tongue by David
    Transition_projects featuring   	 The Secrets of Musical                                                       exploring at 75                                                                                                                        Bailey (above).
    Claire Booth                        Manipulation                                                                                                                                                                                                  34	 FEATURE
48	 CHRISTMAS	AT		                      Mike Figgis in conversation                                                                                                                                                                                       The Indefatigable Albert Irvin
	 KINGS	PLACE		                                                                                                                                                                                                                                           by William Varley
    with the Dufay Collective
    and many more



REGULARS                            03	 WELCOME	
                                    06	 TICKET INFORMATION
                                                                            51 LISTINGS
                                                                            52 PLAN YOUR WEEK
                                                                                                                79 CALENDAR
                                                                                                                82	 Q&A
                                    08	 HIGHLIGHTS	                            AT KINGS PLACE
                                    24	 FEATURES                            53 SEPTEMBER
                                    48 CHRISTMAS EVENTS                     56 OCTOBER
                                                                            65 NOVEMBER
                                                                            72 DECEMBER


                                                                                                                WHAT’S ON                      CONTRIBUTORS	AND	EDITORIAL	TEAM

                                                                                                                SEPTEMBER–                     Contributors                                 Rachel Campbell-          Tel                    Editor-in-Chief                 Designer          © Kings Place 2010

                                                                                                                DECEMBER 2010                  mihir Bose is an
                                                                                                                                               award-winning sports
                                                                                                                                                                                            Johnston is the
                                                                                                                                                                                            art critic and poetry
                                                                                                                                                                                                                      +44 (0) 20 7520 1440
                                                                                                                                                                                                                      Email
                                                                                                                                                                                                                                             Helen Wallace
                                                                                                                                                                                                                                             Editorial Team
                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                             Ana Acosta
                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                             Art Direction
                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                               All material is strictly copyright and all rights are
                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                               reserved. Reproduction in whole or in part without
                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                               the written permission of Kings Place is strictly
                                                                                                                                               broadcaster and                              critic for the Times      mag@kingsplace.co.uk   Michael Green                   Deep              forbidden. The greatest care has been taken to
                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                               ensure the accuracy of information in this magazine
                                                                                                                                               author. He writes on                         John Fordham is jazz      Web                    Janie Nicholas                  www.deep.co.uk    at the time of going to press, but we accept no
                                                                                                                                               sport for the London                         critic for the Guardian   www.kingsplace.co.uk   Emrah Tokalaç                   Print             responsibility for omissions or errors. The views
                                                                                                                                               Evening Standard                                                                              Lowri Williams                                    expressed in this magazine are not necessarily
                                                                                                                                                                                            Colin Irvin is editor                                                            St Ives Web Ltd   those of Kings Place.
                                                                                                                                                                                            of FRoots
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  TICKET
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   BOOKING                                                                                        yOuR jOuRNEy
   Tickets for all performances from £9.50 online                                                 We are located 300 metres from
   The online ticket prices are shown in the listings. Please add £2                              King’s Cross and St Pancras Stations.
   to the online ticket price if booking by other methods.                                        Our main entrance is on York Way.
                                                                               Photo: Orchestra
                                                                               of the Age of
                                                                               Enlightenment –
   ONLINE                                PREMIuM SEATS                         Eric Richmond,
                                                                               Harrison & Co.
                                                                                                  PuBLIC TRANSPORT
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   Secure online booking                 seats in the house. They are                             or call London Travel Information
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                                         include one glass of house wine,
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   HALL ONE                                                                                       PARKING
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   All seating is unreserved, some                                                                and both auditoria offer suitable seating
   events may be standing only.                                                                   for wheelchair users. Please inform us of any
                                         By PHONE & IN PERSON                                     access requirements when booking. There is
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   SAVER SEATS                           Mon–Sat: 12–8pm, Sun 12–7pm                              those with hearing aids. An infrared system
   exclusively available online
                                         (Closed Bank Holidays)                                   is installed in Halls One and Two, with hearing
   You are guaranteed a seat but
                                                                                                  advancement headsets for audience members
   its location will be allocated by
                                                                                                  who do not use a hearing aid. Neck loops are
   the Box Office. Saver seat tickets    By POST                                                  available to use with hearing aids switched
   are available for collection one      Kings Place Box Office
                                                                                                  to the ‘T’ position. All areas of Kings Place
   hour before the performance.          90 York Way, London N1 9AG
                                                                                                  are accessible to those with Guide
   (Limited availability)
                                                                                                  and Hearing Dogs .
Book tickets now:                                                                                         Book tickets now:                                                                                                                                         hIGhLIGhtS
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                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                          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
                                                                                                                                                    Photo BPK, BERLIn / PHOTO SCALA, FLOREnCE




   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;
                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                          wRITING ‘RULE!
   collaboration between Kings                                                                                              Pulcinella by                                                                                             Talvin Singh;                                       bRITANNIA’ bUT




                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                 Photo STEPHEn PAGE
                                                                                                                            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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Kings Place - What\'s On (Autumn Season 2010)

  • 1. music+art+restaurants 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 YOUR FREE COPY WWW.KINGSPLACE.CO.UK TICKETS FROM £9.50 ONLINE
  • 2. Private Dining Room for up to 24 people • Waterside Terrace • Make Rotunda your local for Great British Food – we have our own farm in Northumberland • Cocktail Classes family and friends’ gatherings. COVER PHOTO RAY BURMISTON to with their Heads! in the back section. Kings Place! 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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CON S S IC AL OO TEMP OK WO D& P OREN W RLD A R ORD Y JA ZZ 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 90 York Way London N1 9AG event bookings: 020 7014 2838 events@kingsplaceevents.co.uk www.kingsplace.co.uk Conferences for up to 420 people • Dinners for up to 220 guests • Small meeting Birthdays and family parties • Intimate dinners • Barbeques and outdoor events 03
  • 3. PHOTO DAvID bAILEy PHOTO SvEN ARNSTEIN PHOTO JAzzSIGN/LEbREcHT MuSIc & ARTS PHOTO MAGNuS SKREDE PHOTO bob THoMAS/PoPPERfoTo/GETTy IMAGES CLASSICAL JAZZ FOLK CONTEMPORARY SPOKEN WORD COMEDY ART FOOD & DRINK HIGHLIGHTS HIGHLIGHTS HIGHLIGHTS HIGHLIGHTS HIGHLIGHTS HIGHLIGHTS HIGHLIGHTS HIGHLIGHTS 08 Stravinsky Remix 12 West Side Story Jessie 14 Welcome to The Wild Crowd 10 Dai Fujikura’s 16 Poet in the City 15 The Wisdom of 18 Ruth Borchard’s 20 Solution to 09 Thomas Arne’s Alfred Buckley, new voice in jazz Alistair Anderson on Super-Collider 17 Twin Dynasties Peacock & Gamble Self-Portrait Collection the Sunday roast 24 COVER FEATURE 13 Piano Man John Taylor, a bumper folk season 11 ELISION’s Mission Fatima Bhutto & Two MCs have a 19 The art of defying gravity 21 Grape Expectations Soul to Soul a pianist and a gentleman 40 FEATURE Impossible Nayantara Sahgal chat about audiences Ann Christopher Meet the man behind Schumann’s bicentenary 32 FEATURE Unbroken Chain 43 FEATURE 47 COlUmn 28 FEATURE the wine list at the Rotunda with Lucy Parham (above) Don’t Stop Me Now! Colin Irwin traces the rise of Mikhail Karikis’s (above) Mihir Bose on Cricket, The Skull Beneath the Skin Restaurant and Natalie Clein Django Bates (above) hits 50 the folk movement. exploded opera Xenon Commonwealth and Country. Rachel Campbell-Johnston 38 FEATURE by John Fordham Sigrid Moldestad (above). 82 FEATURE The Nawab of Pataudi meets David Bailey. Eternity in an Hour 44 FEATURE Q&A: Terry Riley, still (above). Shoe Tongue by David Transition_projects featuring The Secrets of Musical exploring at 75 Bailey (above). Claire Booth Manipulation 34 FEATURE 48 CHRISTMAS AT Mike Figgis in conversation The Indefatigable Albert Irvin KINGS PLACE by William Varley with the Dufay Collective and many more REGULARS 03 WELCOME 06 TICKET INFORMATION 51 LISTINGS 52 PLAN YOUR WEEK 79 CALENDAR 82 Q&A 08 HIGHLIGHTS AT KINGS PLACE 24 FEATURES 53 SEPTEMBER 48 CHRISTMAS EVENTS 56 OCTOBER 65 NOVEMBER 72 DECEMBER WHAT’S ON CONTRIBUTORS AND EDITORIAL TEAM SEPTEMBER– Contributors Rachel Campbell- Tel Editor-in-Chief Designer © Kings Place 2010 DECEMBER 2010 mihir Bose is an award-winning sports Johnston is the art critic and poetry +44 (0) 20 7520 1440 Email Helen Wallace Editorial Team Ana Acosta Art Direction All material is strictly copyright and all rights are reserved. Reproduction in whole or in part without the written permission of Kings Place is strictly broadcaster and critic for the Times mag@kingsplace.co.uk Michael Green Deep forbidden. The greatest care has been taken to ensure the accuracy of information in this magazine author. He writes on John Fordham is jazz Web Janie Nicholas www.deep.co.uk at the time of going to press, but we accept no sport for the London critic for the Guardian www.kingsplace.co.uk Emrah Tokalaç Print responsibility for omissions or errors. The views Evening Standard Lowri Williams expressed in this magazine are not necessarily Colin Irvin is editor St Ives Web Ltd those of Kings Place. of FRoots
  • 4. Book tickets now: 06 TICKETS September—December 2010 020 7520 1490 TICKET INFORMATION www.kingsplace.co.uk Box Office 020 7520 1490 BOOKING yOuR jOuRNEy Tickets for all performances from £9.50 online We are located 300 metres from The online ticket prices are shown in the listings. Please add £2 King’s Cross and St Pancras Stations. to the online ticket price if booking by other methods. Our main entrance is on York Way. Photo: Orchestra of the Age of Enlightenment – ONLINE PREMIuM SEATS Eric Richmond, Harrison & Co. PuBLIC TRANSPORT www.kingsplace.co.uk Premium seats are the best Visit www.tfl.gov.uk to help plan your Journey, Secure online booking seats in the house. They are or call London Travel Information 24 hours a day. available at an additional cost and 020 7222 1234. include one glass of house wine, beer or soft drink. HALL ONE PARKING Pick your own seat NCP Car Park – Pancras Road. pick your seat: BOOK NOW GROuPS Visit www.ncp.co.uk or call or choose the SAVER SEAT option Buy 10 or more tickets and save 0845 050 7080 for further details. saver seat: BOOK NOW 20%. Group discounts are only available directly through the Box Office and exclude Saver and ACCESS HALL TwO Premium Seats. Kings Place aims to be accessible to all All seating is unreserved, some and both auditoria offer suitable seating events may be standing only. for wheelchair users. Please inform us of any By PHONE & IN PERSON access requirements when booking. There is 020 7520 1490 an induction loop at the Box Office to assist SAVER SEATS Mon–Sat: 12–8pm, Sun 12–7pm those with hearing aids. An infrared system exclusively available online (Closed Bank Holidays) is installed in Halls One and Two, with hearing You are guaranteed a seat but advancement headsets for audience members its location will be allocated by who do not use a hearing aid. Neck loops are the Box Office. Saver seat tickets By POST available to use with hearing aids switched are available for collection one Kings Place Box Office to the ‘T’ position. All areas of Kings Place hour before the performance. 90 York Way, London N1 9AG are accessible to those with Guide (Limited availability) and Hearing Dogs .
  • 5. Book tickets now: Book tickets now: hIGhLIGhtS 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 Photo BPK, BERLIn / PHOTO SCALA, FLOREnCE 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; wRITING ‘RULE! collaboration between Kings Pulcinella by Talvin Singh; bRITANNIA’ bUT Photo STEPHEn PAGE 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 OpERA COMpOSER