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Date and venueTitle
13-Feb-2013
St Paul's Church
Contemporary Music Venture at St Paul's Church, Bristol
Image credit: Members of the Contemporary Music Venture; photo by Philippa Walker, University of BristolThere was no doubt that for this concert, one had to enter the front door with a completely open mind. The aim of the Contemporary Music Venture is to promote contemporary music to a wider audience, in an hour and for free – an honourable challenge.
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14-Aug-2012
Royal Albert Hall
Prom 44: A pocket history of post-war music with the London Sinfonietta
Image credit: György Ligeti © H.J. KroppTo judge by the continued chatter, no-one noticed 100 metronomes on stage being set in motion, signalling the beginning of György Ligeti’s Poème symphonique (1962). Even when the lights were dimmed it only dawned on people slowly that the concert had actually already begun. And yet once the realisation hit home, the entire audience was drawn into the piece, the suspense palpable as one by one the metronomes, each set at a pre-fixed speed, dropped out, eventually leaving only three... then two... then one.
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