Event listing: Northern Sinfonia - The Late Mix | The Glasshouse International Centre for Music: Sage Two | Fri 13 Jan 2012 at 21:00

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The Glasshouse International Centre for Music: Sage TwoSt Mary's Square, Gateshead Quays, Gateshead, North-East, NE8 2JR, United Kingdom

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Programme

Lang, David (b. 1957)	Statement to the Court
Stravinsky, Igor (1882-1971)	Concerto in E flat major for chamber orchestra "Dumbarton Oaks"
Muhly, Nico (b. 1981)	Motion
Bernstein, Leonard (1918-1990)	West Side Story: Symphonic Dances

Performers

Royal Northern Sinfonia
Nicholas Collon	Conductor
Northern Sinfonia Chorus

David Lang - The Sage Gateshead’s Composer in Association – has set to music a famous political speech from 1918 by the American socialist Eugene Debs. A UK premiere. Richard Ayres, a youngish Brit living in Holland has written an inspired, hallucinogenic fantasy about an orphaned girl growing up in the Alps, raised by animals. Kaleidoscopic, hilarious, spectacularly theatrical and surprisingly emotional.

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Dazzling American fireworks from Northern Sinfonia and Nicholas Collon

Jane Shuttleworth, 13th January

It was hard to believe, listening to this evening’s Late Mix concert at the Sage, that three out of the four pieces played had in fact been substituted at the last minute after a soloist’s sudden illness meant that the original programme couldn’t be performed. Especially as all three pieces retained the spirit of adventure and exploration in which the Late Mix series specialises.

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