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BBC SO Totally Tanglewood: Chamber Music

,Milton Court Concert Hall
Ruth Crawford Seeger

An intimate stop on the BBC SO’s journey through everything Tanglewood, featuring string quartets by American pioneers and Augusta Read Thomas’s percussive celebration of the Center’s spirit.

When Augusta Read Thomas was asked to write a piece for the opening of Tanglewood 2019, she set out to create music that would capture the ‘lively spirit, exquisite creativity, motion, enchantment and positive energy’ that the Music Center embodies. The result is Magic Box for percussion quartet and string quartet, performed here by students from the Guildhall School of Music and Drama and Harvard University’s Fromm Players alongside a new work by George Lewis, Ruth Crawford Seeger’s landmark String Quartet of 1931 and Elliott Carter’s award-winning first quartet, a shifting dreamscape for four strings written amid the undisturbed quiet of the Arizona Desert.

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The performance will finish at approximately 2.45pm. It includes a 20 minute interval.

Programme

  • George Lewis   New work (UK premiere)
  • Ruth Crawford Seeger   String Quartet 1931
  • Augusta Read Thomas   Magic Box
  • Elliott Carter   String Quartet No 1

Performers

  • The New Fromm Players  
  • Guildhall School musicians  

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Milton Court Concert Hall

Location
Milton Court Concert Hall is located within the Guildhall School of Music and Drama and is approximately a 5 minute walk from the Barbican entrance on Silk Street.  

Address
Milton Court
Silk St, London
EC2Y 9BH

Nearby public transport
We are within walking distance from a number of London Underground stations, the closest being Barbican, Old Street, St Paul’s and Moorgate. The nearest train stations are Liverpool Street and Farringdon. Bus Route 153 runs directly past the Barbican along Chiswell Street

Car and bicycle parking
We have free bicycle spaces and paid car parking spaces available