The 麻豆社 Symphony Orchestra opens its 2014-15 Barbican season with a celebration of the 麻豆社 Singers at 90.
The 麻豆社 Singers, under their Chief Conductor David Hill, perform Judith Weir's Vertue, Tavener's Song for Athene and Britten's Hymn to St Cecilia in a concert including two American classics. In My Father knew Charles Ives, John Adams re-imagines Ives鈥檚 multi-layered musical soundscape through his own memories of playing in marching bands. Ives鈥檚 radical masterpiece, his Fourth Symphony, is an intricately woven mesh of hymn tunes, popular songs and his own music, performed by multiple ensembles playing at different speeds and in different keys. The result, which Ives never heard, is a vast, dynamic theatre of sound whose influence continues to resonate through American music today. Distinguished American conductor Andrew Litton conducts both works.
Following the withdrawal of soprano Pumeza Matshikiza from this concert, the world premiere of Kevin Volans鈥檚 The Mountain That Left will be postponed to a future date.
