Welcome to the first issue of LCO's new quarterly e-newsletter. We hope you will enjoy reading about our recent activities and upcoming events.
Following on from a series of successful projects at Village Underground last year, LCO launched 2010 with a sell-out concert at the Roundhouse. Read below for one of several write-ups we received in the national press.
Highlights for this year include residencies at Aldeburgh, closing the Spitalfields Festival, and a further collaboration with the Roundhouse in November.
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With best wishes,
Hugh Brunt
co-Artistic Director
LCO AT THE ROUNDHOUSE 23.01.10
Biosphere (aka Geir Jenssen) Shhoctavoski (UK premiere)
Steve Reich Different Trains
Shiva Feshareki TTKonzert (world premiere)
John Cage Seventy-Four (UK premiere)
DAILY TELEGRAPH REVIEW
by Ivan Hewett, Tuesday 26 January
Watch out London Sinfonietta and Nash Ensemble - there's a new kid on the block. It's the London Contemporary Orchestra, young, keen as mustard, and able to field extravagantly large numbers of players to tackle determinedly left-field programmes - with a bit of help from Facebook and Twitter, which facilitated a last-minute appeal for extra players for John Cage's last piece Seventy-Four, which needs 74 players.
The smiling musical anarchist Cage died in 1992, which, I imagine, is before some of those players on the Roundhouse stage were born. The audience seemed much the same. So what drew them in such amazing numbers? The ambience of the Roundhouse certainly helps, with its screens above with close-up views of the players, and the whole domed space swimming in psychedelic red and blue light.
But it was surely the programme that worked the magic. It was a brilliantly contrived mix that delivered coolness, daring experimentalism, classic high-seriousness and cosmic spiritualism, all at once... >> click here to read the review in full.
  
CALL FOR SCORES WORKSHOP
A substantial number of works were submitted for LCO's second Call for Scores scheme. Pieces from Jamie Hamilton (UK), Daniel McCallum (Australia) and Lina Tonia (Greece) were workshopped in an afternoon session at the Roundhouse's Studio Theatre on January 23rd in front of a distinguished panel including Marcus Davey (CEO, Roundhouse), Rolf Hind and John Woolrich.
 
LOOKING AHEAD...
FASTER THAN SOUND, ALDEBURGH
Saturday 15 May, 8.00pm
Hoffman Building, Snape Maltings
LCO present a range of new works from young composers and sonic artists, including Emily Hall, Jonathan Cole, Tristan Brookes, Howard Quin, plus a performance of Jonny Greenwood's smear. More info >>
SPITALFIELDS FESTIVAL
Friday 25 June, 8.30pm
Village Underground, Shoreditch
LCO make their Spitalfields Festival debut showcasing three unique musical mavericks. Radical filmmakers the Brothers Quay's Street of Crocodiles, which inhabits their characteristically nightmarish world, is accompanied by Lech Jankowski's revised score. Parallel worlds are also the theme in Claude Vivier's Zipangu, referencing the island that Kubla Khan sought to conquer, and which to the composer represents 'the symbol of immeasurable wealth, lying just out of reach.' Schnittke's Concerto Grosso No. 1 skilfully fuses the disparate styles of baroque, modern and the banal into an essay on the subversion of convention, constantly wrong-footing the listener. More info >>
OTHER EVENTS THAT CAUGHT OUR EYE
BLANK CANVAS: February 2010 Edition
Friday 12 February, 9.00pm
BFI Southbank, London
BFI Southbank and AV label Ne1co's regular club event with a filmic twist returns in a special collaboration with contemporary classical producer Will Dutta's Blank Canvas project, featuring live performance from Mira Calix. More info >>
LONDON SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA PARTNER PROMOTION
Saturday 13 February, 7.30pm
Barbican Hall, London
The LSO and Valery Gergiev present a programme of 20th-century masterworks including Ligeti's daring Atmosphères and Henri Dutilleux's Mystère de l'instant, a piece which plays with the concept of time. Tickets from £7. Call the Barbican Box Office on 020 7638 8891 or >> click here for more information/to book online.
WHAT WE'VE BEEN LISTENING TO
Hildur Guđadóttir "Without Sinking"
Touch TO:70 www.touchmusic.org.uk
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