Viva Brighton Issue #52 June 2017

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23 – 25 June 2017 All Saints Centre / St Michaels Church 8 CONCERTS, 15 MUSICIANS! JOIN IN THE FESTIVAL AND DISCOVER SOMETHING NEW! JAMES GILCHRIST PHILIP HIGHAM TOM POSTER HUW WATKINS THE EUSEBIUS QUARTET MATHILDE MILWIDSKY www.leweschambermusicfestival.com DON’T MISS OUT BOOK NOW! TICKETS: box-office@leweschambermusicfestival.com | 01273 479865 FREE TICKETS FOR U26s www.leweschambermusicfestival.com
PERFORMANCE .................................... Refrain A projection of objection “I’m hoping to give voice to men who didn’t have a voice.” So says Verity Standen, the composer behind Refrain, an experimental a cappella male choir performance taking place in Newhaven Fort from June 9th to 11th. The men in question are the 16,000 or so conscientious objectors who chose not to bear arms during World War One, and particularly the ‘absolutists’ who refused to do anything that might constitute aiding the war effort. The Fort will be the third site where Verity’s piece will have been put on this year. This particular show has been put on in association with producers Situations and Attenborough Centre for the Creative Arts - the first outside performance the Sussex University venue has been involved in - and will be performed by a group of local male singers. I’m talking to Verity in the Green Room at the Attenborough Centre, and she lets me into the reason for choosing the Newhaven venue, picked like the others due to its connection with the conscientious objection movement. Among the most stringent of the absolutists were a group known as ‘The Seaford Seven’, who were interred in a wing of a military training camp in Seaford. “We looked around where the camp had been,” says Verity, “it’s a lovely bit of coastline but it’s [too] exposed.” She discovered, though, that the internees had been put to work building the road from Seaford to Newhaven, which opened up a new possibility: the Fort offers a distinct connection to local military history. “[There are] lots of lovely little nooks and crannies; I can really play with sound and throwing that sound around.” Don’t expect a traditional choir standing together on a stage. The men will be positioned in little groups all around the fort: “[the audience] are told to follow the song and they can sculpt their own journey through… We’re setting up lots of little pockets of sound-worlds.” Don’t expect, either, any sort of traditional narrative structure. The music – layers of wordless composition – is Verity’s emotional response to a good deal of research about the plight of the conscientious objectors, and involves a lot of improvisation. “No one performance is ever going to sound the same as another, depending on how that group of men is feeling,” she says. Verity is an interesting choice to lead this piece of work: her aversion to the strictures of formal composition make her a very good fit to give voice to a group of men who risked execution in order to assert their right not to conform to expectations, and take up arms. The composer, who developed her practice after going to art school rather than a musical academy, never even learnt to read music. “I genuinely believe,” she says, “that the musicians I have met in my life that are the most free and willing to experiment and do interesting things are the ones who aren’t inhibited by strict classical structures.” Alex Leith Newhaven Fort, 9th-11th June, refrain.online ....45....
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