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Jerwood Hall

Rufus Isabel Elliot: Waves Crash on Old Street

Jerwood Composer+ Showcase

LSO St Luke's

Saturday 16 November 2024 • 7pm

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Jerwood Hall, LSO St Luke’s

David Fennessy The blue eyed lassie
Christian Mason Efflorescence
Barbara Monk Feldman Clear Edge
Martin Arnold Lutra
Interval
Britta Byström Baum in der Stadt
Ryoko Akama 10 days’ etude
Stuart MacRae Haroldswick
Rufus Isabel Elliot New work (world premiere)

David Alberman violin
Louise McMonagle cello
Mark Knoop piano

Tickets

£8 (£6 concessions, £5 under-18s)
+ £1.50 booking fee per online/phone transaction

Composer Rufus Isabel Elliot and artists Miek Zwamborn and Rutger Emmelkamp from KNOCKvologan Studios bring the Isle of Mull’s wild Atlantic rainforest of Tireragan to LSO St Luke’s.

The Programme

Time passes, leaving footprints behind her. Roots twist and deepen, leaves unfurl, turn orange, fall, and decay, tents are pitched and unpitched, the tide changes. Amongst the forest and shore, the works here become voices from this place, echoing off cliffs or encountered on the path.

Archival tape hiss becomes harmonic material in David Fennessy’s transcription of The Blue Eyed Lassie. We hear the unfurling of flowers in Mason’s Efflorescence, and we meet the otter who crosses our path in Arnold’s Lutra. Monk Feldman and Akama present chordal piano sequences, exploring open and closed spaces. 

Elliot’s new work for piano trio closes the concert, imagining the wavering songs that belong intrinsically to a bivvy place amongst the cliffs of Tireragan – songs that transform a place in the wild into a sleeping place. Featuring visuals by KNOCKvologan Studios, it hopes to bring that place alive in the hall of LSO St Luke’s.

 

About the Collaboration

Artists Miek Zwamborn and Rutger Emmelkamp are based in Knockvologan, on the Isle of Mull, where they merge their creative work with the natural worlds of forest and shore that surround them. They have an ongoing collaboration with composer Rufus Isabel Elliot. Last year, they brought a recording studio into the forest near Knockvologan, singing together small songs found amongst hazel trees.


Presented by LSO Discovery.

LSO Jerwood Composer+ is generously supported by Jerwood Foundation. Rufus Isabel Elliot’s new work is generously supported by Marchus Trust, the Hinrichsen Foundation and the Vaughan Williams Foundation.

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With a glass of wine in the Crypt Cafe and Bar

The Crypt Bar

Open for hot and cold drinks from one hour before the performance, and during the interval (where applicable).
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Booking and Discounts

Booking Your Tickets

Online at lso.co.uk
By phone on +44 20 7870 2500 (Monday to Friday 12–5.30pm)
In person at the Barbican Centre

£1.50 booking fee per transaction when booking online or by phone

Refunds and Exchanges

If you can no longer use your tickets, you can exchange them for another LSO St Luke’s concert or Barbican credit voucher (valid for six months). Please ensure that you inform the Box Office at least 24 hours before the performance (two weeks for group bookings). A per-ticket administration fee applies for all exchange services.

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The LSO reserves the right to change artists or programmes if necessary. If the event is cancelled, all bookers will receive a refund. All discounts are subject to availability and may not be combined. Box office calls may be monitored or recorded for quality assurance or training purposes

Concessions

£6 tickets for over-60s, full-time students and unwaged/unemployed people.

Under-18s

£5 tickets for under-18s.

Access Members

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