Name: City Life
Start: 2022-03-04T00:00:00.000Z
End: 2022-03-04T00:00:00.000Z
Location: Milton Court Concert Hall

Organization

Conductor

Jonathan Bloxham

Britten Sinfonia

Orchestra

City Life

London

United Kingdom

Barbican Centre

Milton Court Concert Hall

City Life: Pastoral Symphony Dean (+2 More)

Public

Private

Pastoral Symphony

Barbican Glade

Approved

Associate Ensemble Britten Sinfonia pay a unique tribute to the Barbican on its 40th birthday with a commentary on 21st-century urban life with music by Steve Reich, Brett Dean and Dobrinka Tabakova.

The centrepiece is Steve Reich’s iconic City Life, famed for its use of digital samples alongside the acoustic instruments, capturing a wide variety of urban sounds from his home town of New York City. It’s paired with Brett Dean’s Pastoral Symphony, an elegy to urban development’s encroachment on the natural world in his native Australia. The piece, Brett Dean says, ’is about glorious birdsong, the threat that it faces, the loss, and the soulless noise that we're left with when they're all gone.’

The performance will also include the world premiere of Barbican Glade by Dobrinka Tabakova, commissioned to mark the Barbican’s 40th birthday and written to reflect the theme from a European perspective.

English

City Life by Dean, Tabakova, D., Reich, From (2022/2022), Conductor Jonathan Bloxham, Milton Court Concert Hall, London, United Kingdom

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