The Music of Conlon Nancarrow
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Celebrate the experimental brilliance of Conlon Nancarrow in our unique weekend festival. Southbank Centre, the London Sinfonietta and Trinity Laban Conservatoire of Music and Dance present a weekend festival celebrating the pioneering music of Conlon Nancarrow, one of America's foremost composers of the 20th-century. Nancarrow's virtuosic works are at once enigmatic and inspirational. He is perhaps best known for his extraordinary studies for player-piano, pieces unplayable by human hands. We explore the music of this free-thinking composer with orchestral and chamber arrangements of these pieces performed by the London Sinfonietta and the Arditti String Quartet. You can also hear the entirety of Nancarrow's player-piano studies performed over the weekend by the player-piano itself.
Archive :: festival:S1391175169, venue:V423
