Name: Gavin Bryars at 80
Start: 2023-12-19T00:00:00.000Z
End: 2023-12-19T00:00:00.000Z
Location: Barbican Centre

Organization

Barbican Centre

Conductor

David Wordsworth

Singer

Soprano

Sarah Gabriel

Countertenor

David James

Mahan Esfahani

Harpsichord/Organ

Orchestra

Gavin Bryars Ensemble

Gavin Bryars at 80

London

United Kingdom

Barbican Concert Hall

Gavin Bryars at 80: Ordre 6ème de clavecin Couperin,F (+1 More)

Public

Concert

Approved

In Bryars’s experimental opera, Doctor Ox introduces a gas into a sedate and conservative Flemish village with the result that everyone and everything becomes speeded up, and then chaos ensues. Jesus’ Blood Never Failed Me Yet is described by Bryars as ‘an eloquent, but understated testimony’ to the homeless man. Its hypnotic loop of a homeless man singing has evolved over the last 50 years, and Bryars says that he ‘reinvents the piece every time he performs it’ (Guardian). David Wordsworth, who has personally worked and studied with Bryars for more than 15 years, will conduct the performance.

English

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