London Sinfonietta have announced a fascinating night of music and movement at the Southbank Centre’s Queen Elizabeth Hall on Friday Novemeber 29. Combining Beckett’s short works Quad I & II and American composer Morton Feldman’s For Samuel Beckett, the programme promises much for enthusiasts. Full details and booking are available here.
As the production’s publicity notes: ‘Written shortly before the composer’s death, Morton Feldman’s expansive For Samuel Beckett is a meditatively shifting work, in which tiny differences between endless rhythmic and harmonic permutations suspend space and time.
A giant of American minimalism, Feldman’s experiments with scale and entropy led him to an obsession with quietly powerful music: this evocative piece seems to appear from nowhere and float on elsewhere after is end.
The Royal Academy of Music’s talented Manson Ensemble will join our players side-by-side on stage to perform this mysterious and beautiful work’.
Programme includes:
Samuel Beckett Quad I & II
Morton Feldman For Samuel Beckett
Jack Sheen Conductor
Rowland Hill Co-Director of Quad
Royal Academy of Music Manson Ensemble
London Sinfonietta
The Samuel Beckett Society 