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Some Things Rich and Strange, a collage of musical vignettes taking place from 5:45pm to 8:30pm on 22 October 2015, is the first of the Autumn concerts and events offered as part of Music at QMUL curated by music director, Paul Edlin.

Part of The Culture Capital Exchange's Inside Out Festival, the evening's events bring together members of the Centre for Digital Music and the London Chamber Orchestra.

Like a Choose Your Own Adventure story game, audience members can select from among a visual concert experience centred around Arno Babajanian’s 1952 Trio performed by Elaine Chew (piano) with Hilary Sturt (violin) and Ian Pressland (cello) to swirling music-driven art by Alessia Milo, a talk by Paul Edlin, and/or a film by Frank Scheffer. In the second half the audiences come together to hear members of the London Chamber Orchestra with pianist Karim Said perform Twentieth Century Viennese works. More details below.

£5 general admissions / £2 student [ book event here ].


Programme:

5.45pm: Five Orchestral Pieces
The Octagon, Queens’ Building
(film: 55 mins)
Frank Scheffer’s 1994 film about Schoenberg’s Five Orchestral Pieces with contributions from conductor Michael Gielen, the Netherlands Radio Philharmonic and pianist/musicologist Charles Rosen. Includes archival film of Schoenberg.

Photo by Cicely Yang.
 .6pm and 6.45pm: Art Inside Music
Performance Lab (inside G2), Engineering Building
(illustrated lecture/full performance: 40 mins)
Arno Babajanian (1921 – 1983) Piano Trio in F# minor (full performance: circa 23 mins)

Elaine Chew (pianist and Professor of Digital Media), together with Hilary Sturt and Ian Pressland, gives an illustrated guide to how musicians shape time to create the aura of magic that surrounds musical performances. Babajanian’s ethereal second movement is accompanied by Alessia Milo (architect and Media and Arts Technology PhD candidate)’s swirling spectral art created using computer tools developed at QMUL’s world renowned Centre for Digital Music.

6.45pm: Composers’ Secrets
The Octagon, Queens’ Building
(illustrated talk: 40 min)

Composers imbue their music with secrets about themselves – their love lives, passions, fears, seeming crimes, deepest beliefs, and so much more. Dr Paul Edlin tells us about composers such as J.S. Bach, W.A. Mozart, Shostakovich, Schoenberg, Berg and Messiaen and shines another light into their creative genius.

7.45pm: Ode to Napoleon
The Octagon, Queens’ Building
(music performance: 40 min)

Anton Webern (1883 – 1945) Langsamer Satz (11 mins)
Alban Berg (1885 – 1935) Piano Sonata, Op 1 (7 mins)
Arnold Schoenberg (1874 – 1951) Ode to Napoleon Bonaparte, Op 41 (15 mins)
London Chamber Orchestra Chamber Players with Karim Said (piano) and Omar Ebrahim (narrator)


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