New Music Group Lent Term Concert
Wednesday 16 March 2022, 7.30pm
West Road Concert Hall
Errollyn Wallen Horseplay
Richard Causton The Persistence of Memory
Threnody
Darren Bloom Eve
Oliver Knussen Elegaic Arabesques
Darren Bloom, conductor
Mimi Doulton, soprano
Zoology Late: Acoustic Spaces/Threatened Places
Friday 31 January 2020, 7.30pm
MUSEUM OF ZOOLOGY, DOWNING STREET
John Luther Adams The Light that Fills the World
Benjamin Graves The Visions of Elizabeth Barton (CUMS Composer in Residence 2019-20)
Kaija Saariaho Terrestre
Grisey Périodes
University of Cambridge New Music Group
Darren Bloom conductor
Tickets: £12
Students: £3
In one way or another all of the composers featured here are concerned with the world and their place in it. Therefore, a concert in the museum of Zoology – which starkly reminds us what tiny a percentage of Natural History Humans inhabit – is apt. John Luther Adams’ preoccupation with the wide-open vistas of his homeland of Alaska, Benjamin Graves’ interest in societal issues and Kaija Saariaho and Grisey’s focus on the building blocks of sound itself come together to create a concert which scrutinises what it means to be a very small member of a very large world.
