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John Luther Adams' Become Ocean

BBC Symphony Orchestra / Dalia Stasevska

,Barbican Hall
Dalia Stasevska

Become Ocean: Dalia Stasevska conducts John Luther Adams’s 21st century cult classic.

Described by The New Yorker’s Alex Ross as what ‘may be the loveliest apocalypse in musical history’, John Luther Adams’s Become Ocean is a vast, luminous expanse of music with a troubling but hopeful message about our relationship with nature.

For BBC SO Principal Guest Conductor Dalia Stasevska, it’s a story that simply has to be told.

ARCHORA, by leading Icelandic composer Anna Thorvaldsdottir – a master of organically shifting orchestral textures – is also born of nature, suggesting both a primordial, fundamental energy source and an ‘omnipresent parallel realm’.

In György Ligeti’s Atmosphères, the sound-clouds shift almost imperceptibly, creating a glowing stillness that film director Stanley Kubrick matched to the Star Gate sequence in his 1968 sci-fi movie 2001: A Space Odyssey.

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This performance will end at approximately 8.50pm, with no interval. 

Programme

  • Anna Thorvaldsdottir   ARCHORA
  • György Ligeti   Atmosphères
  • John Luther Adams   Become Ocean

Performers

  • BBC Symphony Orchestra  
  • Dalia Stasevska   conductor

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