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BECOME A CREATIVE PIONEER: £200+ p/a or £16.67+ per month
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As a Creative Pioneer you have the option to direct your support to a specific area of our work:
• Choose from a range of new commissions from living legends to the newest emerging talent
Alternatively, leave us to allocate your donation where it is needed most.
Our way of saying thank you…
In recognition of your support, you will receive:
• A twice-yearly newsletter and regular updates on the progress of London Sinfonietta projects and commissions.
• Regular opportunities to meet our players and attend open rehearsals.
• Opportunities to attend composer talks and events.
• Invitations to selected receptions surrounding premieres of new commissions.
• Acknowledgement in concert programmes and on the London Sinfonietta website.
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Current Commissions to which you could allocate your support.
This is our current list of new works for which we are seeking support. If you do not have a preference for a particular new work you can allocate your support to future commissions in general.
Bryn Harrison: New Work with digital artist Tim head (premiere in the 2011/12 season)
Bryn is writing a new work in partnership with a digital artist that will be performed as an installation in an art gallery. He says:
"This project arises from a long-held interest in the visual arts and, in particular, an ongoing fascination to try and find a musical equivalence to scanning the peripheral surface of a picture plane. This project will be undertaken in collaboration with Tim Head, a highly-established digital artist who presently works with screen projection and video installation. A facet of his work considers how the eye deals with rapidly moving computer generated images which are often presented in pixilated form. Having perceived how people often view our work in similar ways, the music will attempt to produce abstract patterns across time that will constantly be changing the context in which the visual art is viewed. An exciting aspect of this collaboration will be working with the London Sinfonietta, a group that is more than capable of realising the ambitious needs of this project."
Sir Harrison Birtwistle: In Broken Images (UK premiere 24 May 2012)
Our long association with this great composer continues with a rare new piece for ensemble. The work will be premiered as part of on Thursday 24 May, following the London Sinfonietta's performance of the world premiere during September 2011.
Harrison Birtwistle’s In Broken Images took as its starting point the music of Giovanni Gabrieli with its interplay between groups of instruments, but rather than emulating the Venetian composer’s use of echo effects and ritornelli, Birtwistle’s work tracks an independent path in which the music is in a permanent state of exposition. The wind, brass and strings are fiercely independent demonstrating distinct identities, while the percussion underpins each musical family providing the continuum.
The title In Broken Images is taken from poetry by Robert Graves, quoted at the front of the score, which presents two creative states confronting each other:
He is quick, thinking in clear images;
I am slow, thinking in broken images.
... He in his new confusion of his understanding;
I in a new understanding of my confusion.
Steve Reich: Radio Rewrite (World premier 5 March 2013)
Steve Reich is currently composing Radio Rewrite, to be premiered on Tuesday 5 March 2013 at Southbank Centre's Royal Festival Hall. Inspired by the music of Radiohead, Radio Rewrite will be performed alongside a selection of Reich works including Clapping Music, which will be performed by the composer himself.
Radio Rewrite is a co-commission by the London Sinfonietta and New York’s Alarm Will Sound.
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