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Details
LSO St Luke's
161 Old Street
Islington
London
EC1V 9NG
England
Programme
Toru Takemitsu – Rocking Mirror Daybreak
Thomas Adès – Court Studies
Bohuslav Martinů – La Revue de Cuisine (The Kitchen Revue)
Felix Mendelssohn – String Octet in E flat major, Op.20
Manu Delago – Music for Two Acoustic Toothbrushes
Performers
Nicholas Collon – Conductor
Stanton Media – visuals
Manu Delago – hang / percussion
Aurora Orchestra
Programme Note
An extraordinarily versatile performer and composer whose regular collaborators include Icelandic superstar Björk, Manu Delago has pioneered the mesmerising sound of the hang - an instrument that looks like an upturned wok and produces a resonance somewhere between a harp and a tabla.
For the last concert in the 2014 New Moves series, he joins Aurora Orchestra as they roam about the rooms of a house, with music including a jazz-infused ‘kitchen ballet’ by Martinů, a major new commission, Secret Corridor, from Delago himself, and Mendelssohn’s Octet, one of the greatest living-room sized works ever penned. They might even settle in for some afternoon TV on the sofa...
