Forthcoming Concerts
There are no forthcoming concerts.
Previous concerts and events in 2009
Claire Booth (soprano) and Andrew Mattews-Owen (piano)
Sounds Underground is supporting this concert, which is part of the Louise Blouin Foundation Concert Series.
10 June 2009, 7pm
Louise Blouin Foundation, 3 Olaf Street, London W11 4BE
Contemporary song by Oliver Knussen, Alun Hoddinott, Laurence Crane and premières by Arlene Sierra, Phillip Cashian and Robert Fokkens.
Pre-concert discussion with Arlene Sierra, Laurence Crane and Robert Fokkens in conversation with Katie Derham
Tickets: £12 full/£8 concessions/£5 members of LTB Foundation. All ticket prices include a glass of champagne.
To order tickets phone the Louise Blouin Foundation on 0207 985 9600 or email info@ltbfoundation.org. Tickets can be purchased on the door subject to availability.
Flights into Darkness (world première)
A melodrama devised by Tom Frankland, Jakob Fichert and Robert Fokkens, with music by Robert Fokkens
24 March 2009, 7.30pm
The Warehouse, Theed Street, London SE1 8ST
Jakob Fichert (piano)
Tom Frankland (actor/narrator)
Robert Fokkens (composer)
Sounds Underground presents the world première of a contemporary melodrama based on Oscar Wilde's iconic book, The picture of Dorian Gray and Austrian author Arthur Schnitzler's psychological thriller Flight into darkness. This dark, disturbing piece, combining music, text and drama, is performed by actor Tom Frankland and pianist Jakob Fichert.
The long-neglected form of the melodrama is revisited in this new work which draws together texts from two of the greatest turn-of-the-century novellas. Episodes from Schnitzler's remarkable representation of mental collapse, drawing heavily on his experience as a doctor and psychoanalyst, are interwoven with Wilde's twisted tale of art, depravity and morality.
Popular in the 19th century, the melodrama combined music, spoken word and dramatic action, the modern usage of the word arising from the over-wrought style of theatre traditionally associated with the form. Both Wilde and Schnitzler have their roots in this soil, yet undercut it with measured, at times clinical, observations - and in Wilde's case particularly, droll philosophical monologues - about the nature of madness, identity, reality and morality.
Flights into Darkness draws on these tonal resources and on contemporary theatrical practice, weaving texts highlighting these and other themes from the individual novellas into a single sinister journey through some of the darkest regions of human experience.
Tickets £12/£8 (concessions)
Flights into Darkness (second performance)
27 March 2009, 7.30pm
Jacqueline du Pre Music Building, St Hilda's College, Cowley Place, Oxford OX4 1DY
A second performance of the new piece.
Tickets £10/£8 (concessions)