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Home > Graham Fitkin: New Music 20×12

Graham Fitkin: New Music 20×12

For:

Track to Track

Commissioned by:

London Chamber Orchestra Trust

Event date:

22nd March 2012

Event venue:

Cadogan Hall, London

Find out more by visiting:

www.fitkin.com/

The London Chamber Orchestra and their artistic advisor Mark Prescott wanted to explore a way of incorporating a piece of music into the fabric of the games themselves. Mark had read about the Olympic Javelin train and felt that commissioning a piece celebrating that journey, referencing such pieces as ‘Night Mail’ and ‘O trenzinho do caipira’ would be an interesting way of celebrating a key and overlooked aspect of an Olympic Games. Luckily Graham Fitkin and poet Glyn Maxwell agreed! Composed for ensemble and string orchestra, Graham will use material created during a series of planned children’s workshops in London and Cornwall to compile a rhythmic backdrop then taking the notion of a journey and the pacing of this particular train trip, two six minute sections using Glyn’s text will be composed each leading to their own end point but with a hint of palindrome about them.

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