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Britten Sinfonia joins the Cambridge University New Music Group for an evening of vibrant contemporary music, bringing together two composers whose distinctive voices re-imagine the relationship between sound, language and imagination.In Dame Judith Weir’s Thread!, a narrator tells the story of the Norman Conquest through translations of the Bayeux Tapestry’s original Latin text, alongside a musical accompaniment vividly bringing to life the sound of galloping horses and clashing swords. This iconic story is further brought to life in this performance through accompanying projections from the tapestry itself onto the walls of the Chapel.
Meanwhile, Unsuk Chin’s Acrostic-Wordplay (Akrostichon-Wortspiel) transforms fragments of language into a playful tapestry of colour and rhythm. Chin takes imagery and scenes from Lewis Carol’s Alice through the looking Glass and Michael Ende’s The Neverending Story, blending themes of storytelling and fantasy in a compellingly distorted composition.
Photo credit:© 2017 – La Fabrique de patrimoines en Normandie
Tickets: £15 (unreserved) or £5 (students or under-18s)
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Chapel at Churchill College, 301 Church Ave, College Station, TX 77840-1461, United States
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