NMC Recordings: The Open Fund for Organisations
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Objects at an Exhibition
Event date:
October 2015
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‘Objects at an Exhibition’ is NMC’s landmark 25th Anniversary project, in partnership with Aurora Orchestra and the Science Museum. In a fresh take on Mussorgsky’s classic, NMC has commissioned six composers to write an 8-10 minute work inspired by the Science Museum’s world renowned historic collections and inspirational galleries and exhibitions. The compositions will be recorded for NMC by Aurora conducted by their Principal Conductor and Artistic Director, Nicholas Collon, and premiered by them in innovative live performances at the Science Museum, where the audience will promenade through the galleries to experience each of the new works within the setting which inspired them, in October 2015.
The project will also form the basis of a music and science cross-curricular education project in schools from the Tri-borough Music Hub, with students participating in a series of interactive workshops and following in the footsteps of the commissioned composers to create a collection of instrumental compositions inspired by the Museum’s objects and spaces. Students will work alongside Aurora musicians and will use traditional and non-traditional compositional methods and improvisation. KS3 science topics will be explored with the Museum’s educators, enhancing participants’ understanding of particular subject areas while developing core skills in composition and performance.
The six composers are Gerald Barry, Barry Guy, Christopher Mayo, Claudia Molitor, Thea Musgrove and David Sawer.