LCMF 2019: On Doubling & Transformation

Burrows & Fargion
‘Let us stop this mad rush towards the end’ (2019)
(world premiere) (LCMF commission)

CA Conrad
Selected poems

Angharad Davies
New work for orchestra (2019)
(world premiere) (LCMF commission)

Marianna Simnett
‘The Bird Game’ (2019)

Gabriella Hirst
Interlude (2018)

Laraaji
Live

Performers:
LCMF Orchestra
Claire Godsmark choreography and dance (Burrows & Fargion)
Francesca Fargion piano and voice (Burrows & Fargion)
Jack Sheen conductor (Burrows & Fargion, Davies)
CA Conrad
Laraaji

To double is to create, to make mischief, to sow chaos and confusion – ‘double double, toil and trouble’ – but also to transfigure and transcend.

Tonight’s metamorphoses include two radical new commissions for the second season of the LCMF Orchestra. Burrows & Fargion – the internationally celebrated duo made up of choreographer Jonathan Burrows and composer Matteo Fargion – present their first ever orchestral work, ‘Let us stop this mad rush towards the end’ (2019), with dancer Claire Godsmark and singer Francesca Fargion, confounding and teasing at the boundaries of what is heard and the moving body, while acclaimed improviser and deep listener Angharad Davies will probe at the echoing, hatching, mutating, splicing possibilities of the orchestra.