CITY OF LONDON FESTIVAL 2011
Alexander Ivashkin & Pacific Curls: Pacific Voyage - Thursday 30 June
Time: 19:30
Girdlers' Hall, London
JS Bach’s first Suite interweaves this unique programme of short solo pieces by Australian and New Zealand composers – Brett Dean, Carl Vine, Jack Body, Jonathan Crehan and Gillian Whitehead – with traditional music and collaborative improvisations by two members of Pacific Curls, a female trio from the South Pacific.
Alexander Ivashkin cello
Pacific Curls (Ora Barlow & Kim Halliday) Pacific instruments, vocals and improvisation
JS Bach Suite No 1 in G major BWV 1007
Jack Body Aeolian Harp
Brett Dean Intimate Decisions
Jonathan Crehan Fantasia Festa
Gillian Whitehead Journey of Matuku Moana
Carl Vine Inner World
Pacific Curls Original material and improvisations
You will hear frequent transitions between various ' musics', where well known classical tunes sound like folk melodies, where the rhythm is looking for a melody, where a well-known theme transforms and gets new light. This way the sound landscape is constantly changing, moving freely from JS Bach's rhythmical structures in the solo cello suites to very similar clusters of action and energy in the Cook Island drummers performance. Music is floating from folk to Classical, and from Romantic to pop.
£20 unreserved (a glass of wine is included in the ticket price)
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