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City of London Festival 2010 Briefing<br />
Tuesday, February 23, 2010<br />
2010 Festival<br />
21 June – 9 July<br />
The Festival’s ongoing “trading places” theme has given us the excuse to explore<br />
and develop artistic and economic connections between the City of London and<br />
many other parts of the world over the past few years. In 2010 the spotlight falls<br />
on Portugal, England’s oldest ally, and on the Portuguese-speaking world: Brazil,<br />
Angola, Mozambique, Cape Verde, Goa and elsewhere. We celebra<strong>te</strong> the rich<br />
cultural diversity found within and between these countries – their<br />
in<strong>te</strong>rdependence as well as independence – which has continued to evolve over<br />
hundreds of years.<br />
2010 is the In<strong>te</strong>rnational Year of Biodiversity and bees will give this year’s<br />
Festival a particular buzz. Hives are being established throughout the ‘square<br />
mile’ of the City and the harvesting of our urban honey during the Festival will be<br />
celebra<strong>te</strong>d in a number of open-air ceremonies with music and specially<br />
commissioned bee poetry.<br />
Christopher Wren, best known <strong>for</strong> his archi<strong>te</strong>cture, was one of the leading<br />
scientists of his day: whilst up at Ox<strong>for</strong>d during the 1650s, he designed a box<br />
beehive and studied the behaviour of bees. Wren’s mas<strong>te</strong>rpiece, St Paul’s<br />
Cathedral, was comple<strong>te</strong>d 300 years ago in 1710 and again is the venue <strong>for</strong> a<br />
major Festival per<strong>for</strong>mance each week: Mon<strong>te</strong>verdi’s Vespers of 1610 sung by<br />
the Choir of St Paul’s Cathedral, Haydn’s Creation per<strong>for</strong>med by the Orchestra of<br />
the Age of Enligh<strong>te</strong>nment and Beethoven’s Symphony No 9 ‘Choral’ in the<br />
acclaimed in<strong>te</strong>rpretation of the LSO and the Mon<strong>te</strong>verdi Choir under Sir John Eliot<br />
Gardiner.<br />
The City’s livery halls, churches and other historic buildings play host to choirs,<br />
chamber orchestras, ensembles and solo artists. Two concerts in St Bartholomew<br />
the Great and another in the Merchant Taylors Hall show demonstra<strong>te</strong> the<br />
extraordinary range and influence of Portuguese choral music, not only in<br />
Portugal’s <strong>for</strong>mer Brazilian, African and Indian colonies from the 16th century<br />
onwards but also in 18th century London (where music by the long-dead Duar<strong>te</strong><br />
Lobo enjoyed great popularity). We have commissioned a substantial new work<br />
from Miguel Azguime, one of Portugal’s leading con<strong>te</strong>mporary composers, to be<br />
premièred by his Sond’Ar-<strong>te</strong> <strong>Electric</strong> Ensemble: this will reflect Portugal’s great<br />
sea journeys and Discoveries of 500 years ago and explore the submarine natural<br />
world, drawing on poetic fragments from Camões and Shakespeare to the<br />
present day.<br />
Home-grown <strong>te</strong>ams include the English Chamber Orchestra playing Portuguese<br />
works with the brilliant pianist Artur Pizarro as soloist, the Brit<strong>te</strong>n Sinfonia<br />
offering a programme of Brazilian music juxtaposed with Bach keyboard<br />
concertos direc<strong>te</strong>d by Joanna MacGregor, and the excellent young Aurora<br />
Orchestra combining wes<strong>te</strong>rn baroque and con<strong>te</strong>mporary works with newly<br />
commissioned choreography by the Brazilian capoeira mas<strong>te</strong>r Ponciano Almeida.<br />
Although much will be heard of Villa Lobos during the Festival, not only in his<br />
various Bachianas Brasilieras but also in chamber music, songs and solo works,<br />
we depart from the Lusophone world in celebrating two great bicen<strong>te</strong>narian<br />
composers this year: Chopin and Schumann. The Portuguese Chamber Orchestra<br />
make their British debut on 21st June, the opening night of the Festival, in a<br />
wide-ranging programme, which includes Chopin’s Piano Concerto No 2 with the<br />
distinguished Brazilian pianist Cristina Ortiz. The venue is Guildhall, where<br />
(perhaps surprisingly) Chopin himself played the piano in public <strong>for</strong> the very last<br />
time. La<strong>te</strong>r that evening, as dusk settles, we shall hear the world première of 21<br />
Piano Nocturne by composer Richard Causton and artist Luke Jerram: the work<br />
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