Mouth, Feet, Sound
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Birmingham Contemporary Music Group
Mouth, Feet, Sound
29 January 2006, 7.30pm
Venue: Hall 3, The ICC, Broad Street, Birmingham
www.bcmg.org.uk
Box Office: 0121 767 4050
Director: Peter Wiegold
Saxophones: John Harle, Kyle Horch, Christian Forshaw, Simon Haram
BCMG in collaboration with:
Birmingham Symphonic Winds (conductor Keith Allen), The National Saxophone Choir & Guests, Telford New Symphony Orchestra Winds (conductor Dr Eric Hinton), UCE Birmingham Conservatoire Wind Band (conductor Guy Woolfenden), The University of Birmingham, Birmingham Schools’ Wind Orchestra.
Programme
Bruno Maderna Serenata per un Satellite
Salvatore Sciarrino La bocca, Ipiedi, il suono
Luciano Berio Accordo
Bruno Maderna wrote his glittering Serenata for the European Space Operations Centre to celebrate the launch of a satellite. Like many of Maderna’s late pieces, the (visually beautiful) score gives the players a great deal of freedom.
Berio’s Accordo, for four wind bands with an unlimited number of players, evokes the atmosphere of an Italian village festival. Berio says it is many things: ‘a meeting…a small tribute to a great desire for peace on earth…a festival of Unity, a melody; a hommage to the musicians of the orchestras who meet in the evening and cast off the fatigue of a long day’s work’.
Sciarrino’s ‘The Mouth, the Feet, the Sound’, scored for over a hundred saxophones, is a magical experience: half musical, half theatrical, ‘like a torrent of raindrops or a distant flock of birds…haunting the space’.
Box Office – Symphony Hall, Broad Street, Birmingham B1 2EA
Tel: 0121 767 4050 Minicom: 0121 644 6140
Online booking: www.bcmg.org.uk
Tickets: £13 full price/£7 concessions/£5 under 16s
Concessions are for senior citizens, students, unemployed and Passport to Leisure. Please provide proof of entitlement.
For directions to the ICC, please visit www.theicc.co.uk
Image of John Harle by Nick White
