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Live at the Centre: Walton's Façade
CBSOCBSO Centre, Berkley Street, Birmingham
Thu 24 Sept · 20:00 · £15
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Take a deep dive into some fabulously strange corners of 20th century music. Ibert’s sparkling, playful Divertissement was composed for a play about a straw hat. Its short but sweet movements range from parody to pathos to party-time. Leonard Bernstein declared that Milhaud’s Création du Monde was the best example of jazz-classical fusion: not a ‘flirtation’ with jazz, but a ‘real love affair’. It is serious, funky, and full-blooded. Walton’s Façade, meanwhile, defies categorisation: part chamber piece, part poetry recital, part provocation. Soprano Jennifer France takes on the fabulously tongue-twisting poetry.
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