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St John's Smith Square
Smith Square
City of Westminster
London
SW1P 3HA
England
Programme
Béla Bartók – Divertimento, Sz.113 (BB 118)
John Luther Adams – Shaker Loops
Performers
James Sparks – Speaker
City of London Sinfonia
Other concerts in this Series (+)
Programme Note
City of London Sinfonia and Professor James Sparks explore the fundamental patterns of life on this earth, and the beauty and inspirations they enable – through the work of two great musicians, Bartok and Adams.
Bartok was an avid collector of minerals, insects, and plants, with a soft spot for sunflowers and fir cones. His Divertimento springs from his collection, with its complex (and at times frantic!) romantic form bound by simple rules and patterns.
Adams similarly draws inspiration from the natural world, incorporating its beauty, power, and rhythms. His work Shaker Loops combines simple and repeating melodic patterns to create a complex tapestry – a rippling, shimmering texture, evoking ripples across water.
In this first of concert series Patterns of Nature, we invite you to join us for an evening that will reframe these two works and strengthen the desire to protect this planet, and all that it has inspired.
