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The Third London Festival of American Music
30 September - 7 October 2010
Lontano's Biennial Festival - created in 2006 - explores and celebrates the work of major American composers and reflects the diversity of style that is so characteristic of contemporary American music today. The festival programme was put together by Lontano's Music Director Odaline de la Martinez, one of the most enterprising musical personalities on the British music scene and the first woman to conduct a complete BBC Prom at the Royal Albert Hall.
With a wide selection of well-known and successful composers, the 2010 festival reflected new music in America today, as well as diversity of gender, generation and geography. Some of the composers Aaron Copland, Charles Ives and John Harbison are Deans of American music. Others, though well known in the States are rarely heard outside their native North America, and were selected specifically to treat UK audiences to a broader spectrum of the best of American composers today. Many of the composers featured attended the festival.
The festival opened with an "Open Recording" on 30th September with Lontano and the BBC Singers at St. Giles Cripplegate, to launch a new CD of choral music by Daniel Asia. The disc is released by the American label, Summit Records in the UK and subsequently in the States. The concert also included a new work by the Boston composer Peter Child. An additional CD of Peter Child's chamber music was launched by LORELT (Lontano Records Ltd) on 7th October during the last concert.
Pieces by highly respected composers like Roberto Sierra and Marjorie Merryman were performed in the concerts alongside works by emerging composers such as Carlos Sanchez Gutierrez, Arlene Elizabeth Sierra and Kati Agócs. Most of the pieces presented were UK or European premieres.
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Most of the composers' names in the listing below are in red - click on them to visit their web sites.
Full Details
Opening Concert
St Giles Cripplegate, Fore Street, London EC2Y 8DA
30 September 2010 at 7:30 pm
AMERICAN VOICES - OPEN RECORDING
LONTANO and the BBC SINGERS, Conductor Odaline de la Martinez, Olivia Robinson (soprano)
| Daniel Asia |
Out of More
Purer than purest pure |
| John Harbison |
But Mary Stood |
| Peter Child |
Song of Liberty |
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FREE admission |
A new CD of choral music by Daniel Asia was launched by Summit Records at this concert. |
Programme II
The Warehouse, 13 Theed Street, London SE1 8ST
2 October 2010 at 7:30 pm
Nadine Mortimer Smith: Soprano
Tomas Lisz: Piano
| Aaron Copland |
Twelve poems of Emily Dickinson |
| Charles Ives |
Tom Sails Away |
| Ned Rorem |
The Silver Swan |
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| Libby Larsen |
Try Me, Good King: Last Words of the Wives of Henry VIII |
Programme III
The Warehouse, 13 Theed Street, London SE1 8ST
5 October 2010 at 7:30 pm
CON ACENTO LATINO
LONTANO, Conductor Odaline de la Martinez
Programme IV
The Warehouse, 13 Theed Street, London SE1 8ST
6 October 2010 at 7:30 pm
Rowland Sutherland: Flute
Mary Dullea: Piano
Programme V
The Warehouse, 13 Theed Street, London SE1 8ST
7 October 2010 at 7:30 pm
PIERROT PLUS-MINUS
LONTANO, Conductor Odaline de la Martinez
Rebecca Lodge: Mezzo-Soprano
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