New Music Ensemble
- Location
- Elgar Concert Hall - Bramall Music Building
- Dates
- Friday 12 February 2016 (19:30-21:45)
Photograph of Percy Pursglove
- CrossCurrents Festival
Festival programme
Daniele Rosina director
Percy Pursglove trumpet/flugel horn*
Lydia Haynes, Holly Singlehurst, Amy Farnell vocalists+
- Berio
Folk Songs+
- Daria Kwiatkowska
trickling water, gentle bells
- Gil Evans
Sketches of Spain*
New music, jazz and folk intertwine as versatile jazz musician Percy Pursglove, conductor Daniele Rosina, talented vocalists and the University’s New Music Ensemble present Gil Evans’s Sketches of Spain, Berio’s Folk Songs, and University of Birmingham composer, Daria Kwiatkowska’s trickling water, gentle bells. Berio’s 1964 Folk Songs set the tone for this eclectic programme dominated by the 40-minute Sketches of Spain. The unrivalled combination of jazz legend Miles Davies and composer/arranger Gil Evans ensured that this jazz masterpiece has remained one of the most popular of all of Davies’s albums and continues to captivate audiences in concert. Sketches of Spain features a re-voiced version of the second movement of Rodrigo’s Concierto de Aranjuez, traditional Spanish melodies, original themes by Evans, and music by Manual de Falla.
Venue: Elgar Concert Hall, Bramall Music Building
Tickets: £8, £6 concessions, £3 students (Available via the online shop or on the door)