Thelineofbestfit. All photographs by Jason Williamson “Just Gimme Indie Rock!” : four simple, yet life changing words. Lou Barlow’s prophetic scream is 20 years old this year, the age when one no longer visits home from university and has the first experience of unpaid electricity bills. Second year into a new life, when deadlines are jumping off points for further negotiations and a Yellow Card is gold dust. Didn’t it grow up fast! I’m proud of indie rock for getting here; it’s had a difficult upbringing.
For this Brooklyn quartet tonight at a sold out Kings College Student Union feels like a home coming celebration. The History of Apple Pie Swervedriving us in to 1991 is opening support, The History Of Apple Pie an incredibly young band to be playing a date like this, but seemingly with fuzzy lo-fi built in to their DNA. Spectrals Louis Jones’ Spectrals are the transfer rumour in the preseason lull of early March. The Pains of Being Pure at Heart. Maurizio Pollini, piano | Southbank Centre. Fryderyk Chopin: 24 Preludes, Op.28IntervalClaude Debussy: Voiles (Préludes, Bk.1 No.2)Claude Debussy: Le vent dans la plaine (Préludes, Bk.1 No.3)Claude Debussy: Les sons et les parfums tournent (Préludes, Bk.1 No.4)Claude Debussy: Des pas sur la neige (Préludes, Bk.1 No.6)Claude Debussy: Ce qu'a vu le vent d'ouest (Préludes, Bk.1 No.7)Claude Debussy: La cathédrale engloutie (Préludes, Bk.1 No.10)Pierre Boulez: Piano Sonata No.2 Please note that Maurizio Pollini's recital has been re-scheduled from Friday 29 April 2011 for health reasons.
In this unusual programme which explores aspects of 'French' music, pianist Maurizio Pollini presents the piano compositions of musical innovators and forward-thinkers, from colourful and visionary Preludes by Chopin and Debussy to Pierre Boulez and the present day. One of five recitals at Royal Festival Hall performed by Pollini during the International Piano Series 2010/11. Watch Maurizio Pollini discussing the Pollini Project in this BBC4 interview.
Rites | Southbank Centre. Edgard Varèse: Tuning Up (sketch, completed by Chou Wen-chung)Gyorgy Ligeti: LontanoIgor Stravinsky: The Rite of Spring Digital artist Klaus Obermaier and the City of Birmingham Symphony Orchestra create a 21st-century realisation of Stravinsky's masterpiece The Rite of Spring with dancer Julia Mach performing on stage. The audience experiences incredible special effects by wearing 3D glasses in an unmissable night of stunning sound and visuals. There is a performance of Rites at 7pm and at 9pm. Each performance lasts approximately 45 minutes and there is no interval. 'Benchmark-setting re-creation of The Rite of Spring... so realistic is the effect of the magic glasses that the stage seems to stretch out right from the screen to a point inches from our nose' (London Evening Standard) 'Truly dazzling... a world where the real and virtual intermingle.' Performers Related LinksThe Rite of Spring.
Lang Lang piano, Vadim Repin violin, Mischa Maisky cello | Southbank Centre. Sergey Rachmaninov: Trio élégiaque No.1 in G minor Felix Mendelssohn: Piano Trio No.1 in D minor, Op.49 Interval Peter Ilyich Tchaikovsky: Piano Trio in A minor, Op.50 This concert presents a special opportunity to see 27-year-old Chinese piano virtuoso Lang Lang in a new light, as he joins two other charismatic musicians - violinist Vadim Repin and cellist Mischa Maisky - in a programme of chamber music. The trio's recent recording of Tchaikovsky's richly romantic Piano Trio has been critically acclaimed for its 'passionate, communal music making' (The Times) and 'outstanding chamber music playing' (Gramophone).
Lang Lang has been described by The Times as 'a seriously gifted musician'. Performers Lang Lang piano Vadim Repin violin Mischa Maisky cello. Your Online Box Office. Fleet Foxes Concert Tickets - HMV Hammersmith Apollo London,United Kingdom | 31/05/2011. Fortuna POP! - Live details.