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Classical Music News:: The Classical Source News:: City of London Festival 2010 Briefing :: Classical Music News<br />
draws on all 21 Nocturnes by Chopin and will be played by 21 pianists from the<br />
Guildhall School and the Centre <strong>for</strong> Young Musicians on 21 upright pianos placed<br />
around Guildhall Yard. This swarm of pianos will then invade the rest of the<br />
‘square mile’ and remain on the streets <strong>for</strong> all to play throughout the three<br />
weeks of the Festival.<br />
Young per<strong>for</strong>mers play a specially important role in the Festival. 12 early evening<br />
concerts (Mondays –Thursdays at 6pm) feature the BBC’s New Generation Artists<br />
who offer ‘Discoveries’ alongside the familiar within their programmes, all of<br />
which will be broadcast on Radio 3. 12 free lunchtime concerts (Tuesdays –<br />
Fridays at 1.05pm) will be given by students of the Guildhall School –<br />
‘Tomorrow’s Artists Today’ – in some of the City’s beautiful churches: these<br />
piano, song and chamber music recitals also reflect the Festival’s Portuguese<br />
theme, feature new work and celebra<strong>te</strong> the 200th anniversaries of Chopin and<br />
Schumann.<br />
The Festival will present world music and poetry from Brazil, Angola, Mozambique<br />
and Cape Verde; fado and wine from Portugal; Portuguese and Brazilian fim<br />
seasons; and Brazilian con<strong>te</strong>mporary dance from Deborah Colker in the Barbican<br />
and Mestre Ponciano Almeida outdoors in iconic City settings.<br />
Dance is the art<strong>for</strong>m of choice <strong>for</strong> bees: when a bee finds a source of nectar, <strong>for</strong><br />
example, it per<strong>for</strong>ms its ‘waggle dance’ in a figure-of-eight to lead others to this<br />
place. Bees in the City will offer a model of social living and working,<br />
demonstrating the vital importance of diversity and in<strong>te</strong>rdependence – bees<br />
cannot survive without plants, plants cannot propaga<strong>te</strong> without the help of bees,<br />
and humans ultima<strong>te</strong>ly need both <strong>for</strong> our sus<strong>te</strong>nance. The Festival and our artists<br />
alone cannot prevent collapse in the colonies of bees and bankers, but we can<br />
make a song and dance about sustainability and the public can share the honey.<br />
The Festival’s own sustainability depends on wide ranging partnership and<br />
support. An exceptional group of artists has been assembled and they are the<br />
sails <strong>for</strong> this festive vessel. Strong winds are needed to fill them: the City of<br />
London Corporation, the Arts Council, the business community, trusts &<br />
foundations (notably the Calous<strong>te</strong> Gulbenkian Foundation), the BBC, in<strong>te</strong>rnational<br />
partners and individual donors all must be thanked <strong>for</strong> their enligh<strong>te</strong>ned<br />
involvement in keeping the Festival afloat and under way during these economic<br />
doldrums.<br />
Ian Ritchie<br />
Festival Director<br />
February 2010<br />
City of London Festival<br />
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