Name: The Hallé Presents Philip Glass: Angélique Kidjo Ifé Songs
Start: 2025-02-13T00:00:00.000Z
End: 2025-02-13T00:00:00.000Z
Location: The Bridgewater Hall

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Hallé Orchestra

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Robert Ames

Orchestra

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Angélique Kidjo

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The Hallé Presents Philip Glass: Angélique Kidjo Ifé Songs

Manchester

United Kingdom

The Bridgewater Hall

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Concert

Days And Nights In Rocinha

Ifé Songs

Symphony No.11

Sushant Karmakar

Approved

Over the course of three days, in collaboration with the RNCM, the Hallé brings you a festival celebrating his best-loved works.

Angélique Kidjo – singer-songwriter, Grammy Award winner, activist – has a star-studded career spanning five decades. Tonight, she steps onto The Bridgewater Hall stage alongside Robert Ames, a skilled interpreter of Glass’s work and ‘a super connector in modern music’ (The Guardian), to perform the UK premiere of Ifé Songs – written especially for her. The composer said of the work: ‘Angélique, together we have built a bridge that no one has walked on before.’

Days and Nights in Rocinha is a thrilling tribute to the Rio de Janeiro neighbourhood. In true Glass style, it begins softly, slowly building and developing with increasingly complex percussive rhythms until it reaches a glorious climax.

Glass’s Eleventh Symphony – sometimes reflective, sometimes fizzing with rhythmic textures, always fascinating – closes the programme.

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The Hallé Presents Philip Glass: Angélique Kidjo Ifé Songs by Glass, Thu 13 Feb 2025, From (2025/2025), Conductor Robert Ames, The Bridgewater Hall, Manchester, United Kingdom

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