Photo: (c) Mark Allan
Sergio A. Mims writes:
The
BBC Radio 3 has the Chineke! Orchestra concert in the newly reopened
Queen Elizabeth Hall in the Southbank Centre in London on a podcast for
the next month.
Chineke! Orchestra play Britten, Beethoven, Daniel Kidane
Chineke! Orchestra's inaugural concert caused a sensation at
the Queen Elizabeth Hall at London's Southbank Centre. That was in 2015,
just before the Hall closed for refurbishment and now Europe's first
majority black and minority ethnic orchestra is back for the Queen
Elizabeth Hall's re-opening. Their programme includes Beethoven's joyful
Symphony No. 4, Coleridge-Taylor's Ballade for orchestra in A minor and
Britten's The Building of the House Overture, the work he chose to
conduct at the QEH's opening in 1967.
Chineke!
Orchestra have commissioned new music for this evening by Daniel
Kidane. Dream Song sets words from Martin Luther King's 'I have a
dream...' speech and tonight's premiere is 50 years to the day since
King's funeral in 1967.
Presented by Sarah Walker.
Coleridge-Taylor: Ballade for orchestra in A minor, Op.33
Daniel Kidane: Dream Song (World premiere)
Britten: Overture, The Building of the House, Op.79
Interval
Sarah
Walker talks to the Director of Music at the Southbank Centre, Gillian
Moore, about the legacy of the Queen Elizabeth Hall, including music by
Steve Reich (Different Trains) and a recording of Purcell's Celebrate
this Festival from the hall's opening concert in 1967, conducted by
Britten.
Beethoven: Symphony No. 4 in B flat major Op. 60
Roderick Williams (baritone)
Chineke! Chorus
Chineke! Orchestra
Anthony Parnther (conductor)
Photo: (c) Mark Allan
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