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Chineke! Classical music for the many not the few!
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SIMON DUFF relishes the cross contamination of Damien Hirst’s greatest hits by street artists from France and the US
In view of the grooming gangs inquiry, SIMON PARSONS feels the relevance of this powerful examination of trauma suffered at Medomsley Youth Detention Centre
JOHN GREEN doubts the motivations of a US war photographer who never questions why, or for whom, she is producing images of imperialist conflict
MARIA DUARTE reviews Springsteen: Deliver Me From Nowhere, Hedda, The Mastermind, and Regretting You
TONY CONWAY welcomes a thrilling and concise history of Hope not Hate, that is also a manual full of tactical advice
PAUL DONOVAN welcomes an inspiring account of living with deafness that has important lessons for the treatment of deaf people in today’s UK
Chineke! Orchestra: Songs of the Prophets
Queen Elizabeth Hall
FOUNDED in 2015, the Chineke! Orchestra is Europe’s first majority black and ethnically diverse orchestra. Through its training outreach programme, the Chineke! Foundation, it is doing for classical music what the Tomorrow’s Warriors scheme has done for jazz, nurturing promising young talent through the use of accomplished and dedicated mentors – with staggering results.
Chineke! already has a history of taking on bold and innovative projects – such as unearthing previously neglected classics like 19th-century black British composer Samuel Coleridge-Taylor. So they were ideal candidates for performing Songs of the Prophets: A Requiem for the Climate.
Commissioned by Christian Aid, the piece comprises four movements by four different composers, on the themes of Creation, Ruin, Recovery and Redemption – each piece interspersed by solo improvisations on tabla, nyatiti and talking drum by master percussionists from Africa and Asia.
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