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Heiner Goebbels: Surrogate Cities

SAT 3 MAR 2012

 
LISTEN TO PODCAST
Southbank Centre Music Nation podcast about Surrogate Cities

Read the 4-star review from Tim Ashley in The Guardian HERE.

Trinity Laban Conservatoire of Music and Dance, in partnership with Southbank Centre, London Philharmonic Orchestra and National Youth Orchestra of Great Britain, presents a day of extraordinary new music, dance and film. Surrogate Cities forms part of Music Nation, a spectacular weekend of music making around the UK to set the scene and create excitement in the lead up to the London 2012 Festival, the finale of the Cultural Olympiad.

15.00H - 'Surrogate Cities' Exploded!

Curator: Lea Anderson
Music Director: Fraser Trainer

The public spaces of Royal Festival Hall are filled with music, dance and film as Trinity Laban students and community participants from across East and South London showcase work developed in response to Heiner Goebbels: Surrogate Cities.
The afternoon will include performances from Animate Orchestra, Dance Fusion, Junior Trinity, the London Philharmonic Orchestra's The Band, Mulberry School for Girls and senior Trinity Laban students, including a new dance work choreographed by
Jeremy Nelson.

18.00H - Heiner Goebbels: Surrogate Cities

Jonathan Stockhammer Conductor
David Moss Voice
Jocelyn B Smith Mezzo-soprano
Trinity Laban Symphony Orchestra
London Philharmonic Orchestra's Foyle Future Firsts
National Youth Orchestra of Great Britain

Trinity Laban students collaborate with players from the LPO's Foyle Future Firsts and the National Youth Orchestra to perform Goebbels' extraordinary work which - drawing upon an eclectic mix of musical influences, texts and sampled sounds - translates the mechanics and architecture of the city into music.

Royal Festival Hall, Southbank Centre
£25 £22 £18 £16 £12.50 £8 £6
0844 847 9910

The Foyle Future Firsts Programme is generously funded by The Foyle Foundation with additional support from the Angus Allnatt Charitable Foundation, the Idlewild Trust, the Lord and Lady Lurgan Trust and the Musicians Benevolent Fund.

BBC Radio 3 (Freq)BBC Radio 3 will be recording this performance for broadcast during Music Nation, a weekend of events broadcast from across the UK on 3-4 March.

For more information, or to find out about other events in your area, visit bbc.co.uk/musicnation.

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Foyle Foundation

London Philharmonic Orchestra

This page was updated on: 13/03/2012

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