McCarthy and Glass

Sunday 5 February 2012, 7.30pm | Barbican, London

Philip Glass: Three Songs
Philip Glass: The Grid
James McCarthy: 17 Days - WORLD PREMIERE

Crouch End Festival Chorus
Finchley Children’s Music Group / Coldfall primary school choir
London Orchestra da Camera
David Temple – conductor

Just a few days after his 75th birthday, Crouch End Festival Chorus is delighted to be performing music by Philip Glass, one of America’s most prolific and influential composers. CEFC will sing Three Songs with words by Leonard Cohen, Raymond Lévesque and Octavio Paz – and, by special permission of the composer, The Grid, from the film Koyaanisqatsi.

The second half of the concert features the world première of a CEFC commission, 17 Days, by James McCarthy.   It is based on the 17-day period of terrifying uncertainty following the Chilean mining accident in 2010.   Four a cappella poems are at the centre of the work, each focussing on different aspects of the emotional turmoil of all those involved both above and below the ground, before the final ecstatic ride through a narrow tunnel to the surface.

Read more about the development of 17 Days in James McCarthy’s Composer’s Blog.

Full details of the concert are on this A5 flyer (PDF) to print and display. A Crouch End Festival Chorus recording of Three Songs is available in the CEFC Music Shop.

Booking information

Sunday 5 February 2012, 7.30pm
Barbican Centre, Silk Street, London EC2Y 8DS

TICKETS: £24/£21/£19/£15/£12.50/£9
Half price for age 18 & under
20% discount for CEFC Friends, Crouch End Card holders and Barbican members

Barbican box office 020 7638 8891
Barbican online booking – reduced booking fee for online bookings

Philip Glass photo: www.dunvagen.com | Miners: EPA/HUGO INFANTE/GOVERNMENT OF CHILE

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