*ROAD TO JERICHO*
http://www.roadtojericho.com/new-antony-pitts---who-is-my-neighbour.html
FRIDAY 3 JUNE 4pm *Road to Jericho / Aldeburgh Young Musicians open session*
http://www.aldeburgh.co.uk/node/869
The Road to Jericho project moves to Aldeburgh to work with Aldeburgh Young Musicians (30 May to 3 June): “Part of an international concert tour between the UK and the Middle East, Aldeburgh Young Musicians join Fifth Quadrant and Dal’Ouna to explore the relationship between Eastern and Western Classical music, both through improvised and notated work. Centred around the theme of collaboration between art forms, languages and people (composers, performers and audience), and led by violist Drew Balch, violinist Simon Hewitt Jones, and composer Antony Pitts, the young musicians will make use of natural colours and gestures from their own and other cultures to create distinctive new work.” Join us for the open session on Friday 3 June at 4pm.
Neighbours?:
http://itunes.apple.com/gb/album/road-to-jericho-neighbours/id422140854.
FRIDAY 10 JUNE 6pm *Spitalfields Music Summer Festival – Insight*
http://www.spitalfieldsfestival.org.uk/index.php?pfid=17&cid=0&eid=264
"This early evening event at the Spitalfields Music Summer Festival 2011, hosted by music writer Jessica Duchen, showcases the Aldeburgh Young Musicians (AYM), a group of exceptionally talented, creative young artists (8-18 years) who work collaboratively across a wide range of music. AYM is helping to develop the UK's most creative future professional musicians, and is rapidly gaining a national reputation for extending the boundaries of what young musicians can achieve. They will perform original music and compositions inspired by their recent week-long collaboration with Fifth Quadrant, Dal'Ouna and Antony Pitts. During their project, the young musicians explored the use of natural colours and gestures from their own and other cultures to create distinctive new pieces of music. The event will also feature a short discussion with Ramzi Aburedwan of Dal'Ouna about music making in Palestine and Aldeburgh."
Admission: free
FRIDAY 10 JUNE 7.30pm *Who is my neighbour? premiere at Spitalfields*
http://www.spitalfieldsfestival.org.uk/index.php?pfid=17&cid=0&eid=258
Fifth Quadrant & Dal'Ouna
Trad. Palestinian music: Arabic Oriental classical music
Antony Pitts:
Who is my neighbour? world premiere
Dvorak: String Quartet No.12 in F, Op.96
British string quartet Fifth Quadrant and Palestinian group Dal’Ouna join forces to explore the relationship between Eastern and Western classical music with the world premiere of
Who is my neighbour? combining ritualized movement with musical gestures and colours from both Western and Middle Eastern sources, Antony Pitts’s piece premieres alongside a set of traditional Arabic Oriental classical music and Dvorak’s popular ‘American’ String Quartet Op.96. Preceded from 7pm by the Shoreditch Church Bells, rung by The Society of Royal Cumberland Youths.
The Road to Jericho project then returns to where it began – in Ramallah and elsewhere in the Middle East. More information as it arrives:
http://www.roadtojericho.com/new-antony-pitts---who-is-my-neighbour.html
*THE WANDERING JEW – double CD released on NMC*
http://www.nmcshop.co.uk/buy/robert-saxton-the-wandering-jew/
Robert Saxton:
The Wandering Jew (NMC D170) £19.99
"Robert Saxton’s long-awaited epic radio opera, commissioned by the BBC, merges Christian and Jewish tradition in the myth of the eternal outsider, the Wandering Jew.
The Wandering Jew is a modernist take on the mediaeval legend of the shoe-mender supposed to have been condemned by Jesus to wander the Earth until the Second Coming after refusing to help Him on the way to the Crucifixion. The opera's libretto was written by the composer and introduces many legendary characters, following medieval and other myths, including Faust, Mephistopheles, Kundry and Wotan. Underneath its surface lies a structure relating to the annual cycle of Jewish and Christian festivals in eight scenes of sweeping orchestral and choral music, enhanced by studio post-production from Antony Pitts. This World Premiere recording was broadcast on BBC Radio 3 in July 2010."
Wandering Jew – Roderick Williams, baritone
Jesus/Beggar – Tim Mirfin, baritone
Widowed Mother – Teresa Cahill, soprano
Fortune Teller – Hilary Summers, mezzo-soprano
Kundry – Louise Winter, mezzo-soprano
Faust – Jeffrey Lloyd Roberts, tenor
Mephistopheles – Brindley Sherratt, bass
Odin – Graeme Danby, bass
Old Man – Jeremy White, bass
Showman – Simon Paisley Day
Widowed Mother – Jennie Stoller (spoken)
Child 1 – Lydia Kalian
Child 2 – Rudi Goodman
Cantor – Stephen Charlesworth
Old Man – Andrew Murgatroyd
Young Woman – Rebecca Lodge
Guard – Robert Johnston
3 Roman Soldiers – Michael Bundy, Charles Gibbs, Adrian Peacock
Angels of Conscience – Elizabeth Poole, Olivia Robinson, Alison Smart
BBC Singers and BBC Symphony Orchestra
Conductor: Andre de Ridder
Sound design: Antony Pitts with Artem Vassiliev
Order online: http://www.nmcshop.co.uk/buy/robert-saxton-the-wandering-jew/
Next month, a 500-year old manuscript comes to life: TONUS PEREGRINUS finally get their hands on the Eton Choirbook...
Thank you for listening!
Antony Pitts
