This Is London 8 March 2019

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10 St Bride’s Church, Fleet Street. Onyx Brass. CAMBRIDGE UNIVERSITY CHOIR SINGS MUSIC OF OUR TIME On Thursday 21 March (19.30) at St Bride’s Church, Fleet Street, one of Cambridge University’s most recorded choirs, the Chapel Choir of Selwyn College will perform a captivating concert. Selwyn will be joined by Onyx Brass ‘the classiest brass ensemble in Britain’ (Gramophone) and organist Simon Hogan. This concert, Music of our Time, launches JAM’s 2019 season. ‘JAM concerts are fresh, energised and surprising. The combination of amazing performance spaces, aweinspiring musicians and head-turning composition is very potent. A JAM experience is unrelentingly exciting and always enjoyable.’ – Audience The dramatic sea-churning The Fifth Continent by Paul Patterson and Ben Kaye (JAM commission 2005) describing the mysteries of Kent’s Romney Marsh headlines the evening. This magical work starts with all the performers offstage; space and physical movement are used as an integral part of the musical structure. A sense of boundless mystery prevails, encompassing a huge range of extremes, from the dark and austere, to the serene and tranquil via storms of violent winds and high seas. Performers will include internationally renowned countertenor, Andrew Watts, (Royal Opera House (London), Paris Opera, La Scala (Milan)) who premiered the work in 2005. Since, The Fifth Continent is JAM’s most successful commission with over forty performances, enjoying rapturous applause and international broadcast. Songs from the Marshes by Rory Boyle (JAM commission 2018) will be programmed with The Fifth Continent. This is a collection of modern folk songs based on subjects of a timeless nature which hark back to an earlier era. The songs deal with love, death, war, ghosts and nature all relating to communities living near the sea. Premiered last July by BBC Singers and broadcast live on Radio 3, this work receives its London premiere in this concert. Six further new pieces of vivid, vibrant music by Phillip Cooke, Steven Nunes, David Nunn, Richard Peat, Helen Roe and Frederick Viner showcase the great pool of talent working in the UK today. Tickets available on 0800 988 7984 or www.jamconcert.org UNDERBELLY FESTIVAL 2019 Underbelly Festival Southbank’s 2019 programme is shaping up to be its most exciting and diverse to date, with over forty more shows added to the line-up bringing some of the very best circus, comedy, cabaret, variety, live podcasting and family entertainment to the banks of the Thames. Flip Fabrique, the Quebecois company whose style is a totally unique mix of joyous free-play, high-concept theatrics and an array of first-class circus skills, return to the Southbank from 27 May to 7 July with Transit – a visuallly arresting, thrillingly highoctane circus show with an enigmatic and engrossing subtext throughout which the performers’ ruminations on their own careers raise questions about the transient nature of life itself. Also set for the Southbank (6-8 May) are Sons of Pitches – the acapella and beatbox group who shot to fame as winners of BBC 2’s The Naked Choir and will be showcasing their astonishing singing talent and innovative vocal arrangements at Underbelly Festival for the first time. t h i s i s l o n d o n m a g a z i n e • t h i s i s l o n d o n o n l i n e
PETROS SINGERS PERFORM BRAHMS REQUIEM One of the great choral masterpieces of all time, Brahms Ein Deutsches Requiem is being performed in the stunning surroundings of St James’s Piccadilly on 23 March. First performed on Good Friday 1868, it is a work of considerable physical and emotional magnitude, as well as being profoundly personal. While Brahms was indifferent to organised religion, the death of his beloved mother in 1865 brought his spiritual convictions into sharper focus. The Requiem was therefore a highly personal undertaking of coming to terms with his loss while recalibrating his spiritual compass. In his Requiem, rather than dwelling on the judgment of the deceased, Brahms seemed intent on consoling those left behind. In a letter to Clara Schumann, he calls it a ‘human requiem’ and it is this sentiment that makes it so captivating to audiences both familiar with and new to this monumental composition. Brahms was also a keen musical historian, collecting and editing music by many of his famous predecessors. In this concert, the Requiem is preceded by a series of motets and songs by composers known to Brahms – including J S Bach, Heinrich Schütz, Fanny Mendelssohn and Clara Schumann – which illuminated his influences in the composition of this masterful work. The programme will be performed by top-class soloists – Miriam Allan (Soprano) and Marcus Farnsworth (Baritone) will be accompanied by Libby Burgess and William Vann playing Brahms' piano arrangement for fourhands. The chorus will be provided by the well-regarded chamber choir, Petros Singers, and the concert directed by Richard Bannan. The concert starts at 19.30 and tickets are available either on the door, from 15.00 on the day, or from the website www.wegottickets.com/petrossingers (no booking fee). For further details, visit www.petrossingers.org WALTHAM FOREST LONDON BOROUGH OF CULTURE In a major nature writing commission, Faber New Poet and Caught by the River poet-in-residence Will Burns are to create a series of new works inspired by Epping Forest as part of an exciting literacy strand for The People’s Forest. The People’s Forest is year-long programme of work taking place as part of the Mayor’s first London Borough of Culture in Waltham Forest. Curated by arts consultant and events producer Kirsteen McNish and writer Luke Turner, the project will celebrate the borough’s unique relationship with Epping Forest and its importance as an urban woodland. Alongside a comprehensive programme of events, talks, gigs and artist collaborations, The People’s Forest will continue the history of great writers drawing inspiration from nature to present a literary programme designed to seek out new writing related to London’s strange and wonderful woodland. Acclaimed poet Burns will walk from Wendover Woods to Epping Forest to shape a new series of poems to be released throughout the year as part of The People’s Forest, revisiting family history, memory and the forest. Woodlands and forests have provided the setting and themes for storytelling since the birth of human culture, from the founding myths of our modern civilisations via Shakespeare and the fairy tales that scared us as children. Charles Dickens used Epping Forest as the place to open Barnaby Rudge, and Alfred, Lord Tennyson, the poet Edward Thomas, and TE Lawrence spent time among the trees. www.wfculture19.co.uk May Day Fayre. 11 t h i s i s l o n d o n m a g a z i n e • t h i s i s l o n d o n o n l i n e
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