Sergio A. Mims writes:
The Southbank Centre in London has
announced that it is reopening the venue this summer for concerts and
will be starting out with a return engagement of the Chineke! Orchestra
in a special program entitled Fate Now Conquers.
The
orchestra has performed a series of small limited concerts with members
of the orchestra during the pandemic but this will be the first time
the full orchestra has performed together since before the pandemic
lockdown.
With triumphant energy, Carlos Simon's tribute to Beethoven opens the first concert of our new season, Summer Reunion.
A
commission by the Boston Symphony Orchestra commemorating the
composer's 250th birthday, its title derives from Beethoven's journal
entry of 1815, quoting lines from the Iliad.
'But
Fate now conquers; I am hers, and yet not she shall share / In my
renown; that life is left to ev'ry noble spirit / And that some great
deed shall beget that all lives shall inherit.'
Remnants
for Poet and Orchestra by composer James B. Wilson and poet Yomi Ṣode
is a lyrical response to London Black Lives Matter protests of 2020.
Narrated
by Ṣode, this emotionally charged piece is inspired by the iconic
Reuters image of Patrick Hutchinson lifting a counter-protester to
safety.
Chineke! alumnus Sheku Kanneh-Mason
last performed with Chineke! on the Royal Festival Hall stage in 2016,
the same year he won the prestigious BBC Young Musician competition.
Now
a confirmed superstar on the classical music scene, he performs with
Chineke! Orchestra once more in the timeless Dvorák Cello Concerto.
Chineke!
has long championed the work of Black British composer Samuel
Coleridge-Taylor, the gifted yet unjustly neglected contemporary of
Holst and Vaughan Williams.
The program closes with the high drama of Coleridge-Taylor's majestic Othello Suite.
Performers
Chineke! Orchetra
Conductor: TBA
Sheku Kanneh-Mason Cello
Yomi Sode Narrator
Works to be performed
Carlos Simon: Fate Now Conquers
James B. Wilson: Remnants
Dvorak: Cello Concerto
Coleridge-Taylor: Othello Suite Op. 79
Chineke! Orchestra: Fate Now Conquers
Friday 28 May, 2.30pm
Royal Festival Hall
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