BACKChineke! launches 2019/20 season
Chineke! launches its 2019/20 season this month, marking its fourth year with a series of concerts across the UK, Europe and the USA.
Highlights include:
– Spotlight on the ‘forgotten’ music of composer Samuel Coleridge-Taylor in three concerts as Associate Orchestra at Southbank Centre
– Chineke! Orchestra’s first major European tour begins in November with concerts in Bruges, Amsterdam, Cologne, Antwerp and Aachen, and its first USA tour in April 2020 with concerts in Santa Barbara, Los Angeles, San Francisco, Washington DC, Ann Arbor, Worcester MA and Ottawa, Canada
– Chineke! Junior Orchestra performs at Croydon’s Fairfield Halls as part of the Croydon Youth Arts Takeover, while local schoolchildren present original dance pieces in response to the music
– New relationship with Fairfield Halls as ‘Orchestra in Partnership’ sees Chineke! Orchestra perform alongside the venue’s official Resident Orchestras – London Mozart Players and Royal Philharmonic Orchestra
– Chineke! Foundation becomes Resident Orchestra at Woolwich Works, where it will base its administrative headquarters with use of rehearsal spaces and training and education facilities
– Chineke! Chamber Ensemble expands its concert schedule with performances across England including dates in Oxford, Leicester and at the Theatre Royal Stratford East
Arvo-Pärt-Zentrum zieht positive erste Bilanz
Ein Jahr nach seiner Eröffnung hat das Arvo-Pärt-Zentrum in Estland eine positive erste Bilanz gezogen. Mehr als 33 000 Menschen hätten das rund 35 Kilometer westlich der Hauptstadt Tallinn gelegene Zentrum in Laulasmaa besucht, das sich dem Werk und Leben eines der bedeutendsten zeitgenössischen Komponisten widmet.
«Das Interesse an dem Zentrum war noch größer als wir hätten erwarten können. Es ist erfreulich, dass sowohl Jung als auch Alt hierher gefunden haben», sagte Leiterin Anu Kivilo am Montag dem estnischen Rundfunk.
Das Arvo-Pärt-Zentrum wurde am 13. Oktober 2018 offiziell eröffnet. In dem lichtdurchfluteten Neubau in einem Kiefernwald nahe der Ostsee befinden sich das Archiv, ein Konzertsaal mit 150 Sitzplätzen, eine Bibliothek, Lese- und Seminarräume und Ausstellungsflächen. «Es gibt auch viele Musikwissenschaftler und Studenten, die ein spezifischeres und tieferes Interesse an der Musik von Arvo Pärt und den Materialien in unserem Archiv haben», sagte Kivilo.
Arvo Pärt Centre draws positive initial balance
One year after its opening, the Arvo Pärt Centre in Estonia has drawn a positive initial balance. More than 33,000 people would have visited the centre in Laulasmaa, located some 35 kilometres west of the capital Tallinn, which is dedicated to the work and life of one of the most important contemporary composers.
“The interest in the centre was even greater than we could have expected. It is gratifying that both young and old have found their way here,” said director Anu Kivilo on Monday to Estonian radio.
The Arvo Pärt Centre was officially opened on 13 October 2018. The archive, a concert hall with 150 seats, a library, reading and seminar rooms and exhibition areas are located in the light-flooded new building in a pine forest near the Baltic Sea. “There are also many musicologists and students who have a more specific and deeper interest in the music of Arvo Pärt and the materials in our archive,” Kivilo said.
Les bruiteurs refont surface
Figures de l’ombre du septième art, ils sont portés par la vogue des ciné-concerts. Illustration ce week-end, à la Philharmonie de Paris. Règles en plastique, boîtes à tonnerre, papier bulle, brosses de balai, mètres en aluminium… Ce n’est pas l’inventaire du rayon bricolage du Bazar de l’Hôtel de Ville. Mais un aperçu de l’étrange orphéon bibelotier qui se joindra ce dimanche, le temps d’un ciné-concert, aux musiciens de l’orchestre Manifesto à la Philharmonie de Paris. À la demande de sa cheffe, Mélanie Levy-Thiébaut, les bruiteurs Élodie Fiat, Éléonore Mallo, Gilles Marsalet et Aurélien Bianco, ont en effet constitué un bien insolite ensemble, composé d’objets du quotidien et d’instruments du monde chinés dans les collections du Musée de la musique, dans le but de donner vie à deux courts-métrages de Charlie Chaplin: Charlot brocanteur et Charlot au music-hall.
The noisemakers are resurfacing
Figures of the shadow of the seventh art, they are carried by the vogue of cine-concerts. Illustration this weekend, at the Philharmonie de Paris. Plastic rulers, thunderboxes, bubble wrap, broom brushes, aluminum meters… This is not the inventory of the DIY department of the Town Hall Bazaar. But a glimpse of the strange ornamental orphéon that will join the musicians of the Manifesto Orchestra at the Philharmonie de Paris this Sunday for a film concert. At the request of its head, Mélanie Levy-Thiébaut, the noisemakers Élodie Fiat, Éléonore Mallo, Gilles Marsalet and Aurélien Bianco, have indeed created an unusual ensemble, composed of everyday objects and instruments from the world collected in the Musée de la musique’s collections, with the aim of bringing to life two short films by Charlie Chaplin: Charlot brocanteur and Charlot au music-hall.