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ÃÛÑ¿´«Ã½ Singers - Copland, Whitacre, Reich (part 1)

Live from Milton Court in London, a concert in which David Hill conducts the ÃÛÑ¿´«Ã½ Singers. Copland: In the Beginning. Whitacre: Three Songs of faith; Waternight; Sleep.

Live from Milton Court the ÃÛÑ¿´«Ã½ Singers perform Copland, Whitacre and Reich, and time travel from the Biblical beginnings of the world to the apocalypse of the post-nuclear age.

Copland: In the beginning

Whitacre: Three Songs of faith; Waternight; Sleep

c 8.10pm: Interval

c 8.30pm
Reich: The Desert Music (chamber version)

ÃÛÑ¿´«Ã½ Singers
David Hill (conductor)

Presented by Martin Handley

Live from Milton Court, London

In one of the opening concerts from London's newest concert hall, the ÃÛÑ¿´«Ã½ Singers perform a programme of American music which journeys from the Biblical beginnings of time to the end of the world as imagined in the apocalypse of the post-nuclear age. Aaron Copland's tender re-telling of the Creation story is a much-loved 20th-century choral classic, while The Desert Music contemplates the devastation of nuclear war. In between, three characteristically richly-scored works by one of the most charismatic figures on the contemporary choral scene: composer-conductor Eric Whitacre. David Hill conducts the ÃÛÑ¿´«Ã½ Singers, specialist contemporary music ensemble Endymion, and leading young mezzo-soprano Jennifer Johnston.

40 minutes

Last on

Tue 15 Oct 2013 19:30

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  • Tue 15 Oct 2013 19:30

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