Adelaide Festival: Pacific Currents

For the 2010 Adelaide Festival, the London Sinfonietta will perform two very special concerts including works specially commissioned by the Adelaide Festival.

Away from the traditional centres of high culture, composers in the 20th century were drawn to new technologies and non-Western ideas which led them to radical new propositions about sound and how to order it.

This concert, which will begin in Mexico with folk-inflected brillianc of Silvestre Revueltas, will also explore the astonishing player-piano compositions of Colon Nancarrow and the multi-media sound world of the young John Cage, before bringing us into the present with recent works by the American superstar composer John Adams and Korean sensation Unsuk Chin, with her exhilharating, clangorous Double Concerto