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91Èȱ¬ Scottish Symphony Orchestra
21 Oct 2021, Glasgow Royal Concert Hall
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91Èȱ¬ SSO 2021-22 Season States of America

91Èȱ¬ Scottish Symphony Orchestra
States of America
19:30 Thu 21 Oct 2021 Glasgow Royal Concert Hall
A free concert of contemporary music for 91Èȱ¬ Radio 3's 'New Music Show'
A free concert of contemporary music for 91Èȱ¬ Radio 3's 'New Music Show'

This event has distanced seating

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About this Concert

*Please note this concert is at Glasgow Royal Concert Hall, not City Halls.

Join the 91Èȱ¬ SSO and Principal Guest Conductor and Tectonics Festival founder, Ilan Volkov, for a journey through twentieth century American music and beyond. Lucia Dlugoszewski was a Polish-American composer whose work 'Abyss and Caress', commissioned by the New York Philharmonic in 1975, showcases both her typical use of a timbre (or ‘prepared’) piano as well as innovative bowing for strings. The composer-improviser-trumpeter Peter Evans is our soloist.

Eleanor Hovda was renowned for her beautifully crafted, sparse imaginative soundworlds (represented here by 'Fields 87') while Talib Rasul Hakim (born Stephen Alexander Chambers) was taught by Morton Feldman and Ornette Coleman and influenced by Sufism and Eastern religions.

And we move into this century with the swelling hope of Courtney Bryan’s 'White Gleam of Our Bright Star', a meditation on America’s potential and ‘themes of sister/brotherhood, freedom, and equality’.