MATTHEW HAWKINS applauds a psychotherapist’s disection of William Blake
Pushing Boundaries
SIMON DUFF relishes the new work of four up and coming composers at this year’s LSO Soundhub
PING PONG: Sam Walton, Mira Benjamin and Heather Roche perform John Aulich's In Hollows Spilled Thin
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New releases from Christina Alden and Alex Patterson, Odette Michell, Clementine Lovell
JOHN GREEN is fascinated by a very readable account of Britain’s involvement in South America
Strip cartoons used to be the bread and butter of newspapers and they have been around for centuries. MICHAL BONCZA asks our own Paul Tanner about which bees are in his bonnet
GORDON PARSONS acknowledges the authority with which Sarah Kane’s theatrical justification for suicide has resonance today
RON JACOBS welcomes a timely homage to one of the IWW and CPUSA’s most effective orators
LSO, St Luke’s London
THE London Symphony Orchestra’s Soundhub Associates showcase is an artist-led mentoring scheme for four rising composers. Designed to present an exciting array of fresh and new works by British-based composers in a curated evening of music, developed in collaboration with LSO musicians.
The 2023 event held at LSO St Luke’s represented composition with a conceptual focus exploring notions of human volatility, fragility and a sense of time stretched around events, ranging from themes around war to human emotion. Each composer was given a 30-minute slot with a line-up broadly based around two violins, cello, three percussion set ups, tenor clarinet, harp and electronics, all under the baton of Darren Bloom.
First up on the bill was Tonia Ko with a work called Held.
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