Tantallon! These Lands, This Wall
Spectacular Sound and Light Event
>> Tantallon Castle, North Berwick
8:30pm 17 September
Music: William Sweeney
Words: Aonghas MacNeacail
Lights and Video: Culture Creative
A spectacular site specific music-and-light show by Red Note Ensemble with event makers Culture Creative, following in the footsteps of Red Note’s production of 1000 Airplanes on the Roof at the Lammermuir Festival in 2011.
The Intoxicating Rose Garden
West-Eastern New Music and Dance
>> The Tolbooth Stirling 8pm 15 November
>> Woodend Barn Banchory 8pm 17 November
(with special Family Concert at 10:30am)
>> Traverse Theatre, Edinburgh 7:30pm 22 November
Music: Sally Beamish and Anoosh Jahanshahi
Text: Divan e Hafez trans. Jila Peacock
Choreographer, dancer, singer: Michael Popper
Artwork: Jila Peacock
Video: Laurie Irvine
Late-night, meditative music for String Quartet, performed by candlelight
Wednesday 19th December 2012, 9pm
St Giles' Cathedral, Royal Mile, Edinburgh
Thursday 20th December 2012, 9pm
Wellington Church, University Avenue, Glasgow
Tickets £10 / £5, on the door only.
In the run-up to The End of the World (for one night only), Red Note’s string quartet play two one-hour concerts of some of the most beautiful meditative music ever written.
The End of the World
(for one night only)
>> Traverse @ Summerhall 9pm 21 December 2012
1 Summerhall Edinburgh EH9 1PL
Join Red Note on the 21st December 2012 as we prepare ourselves for the end of the world.
Do you remember the moment you realised the world was going to end? Did you feel panic? Fear? Were you excited or frozen to the spot? Or maybe, just maybe, you felt hope for the possibility of a new beginning...?
The Intoxicating Rose Garden is a new hybrid work which takes Sally Beamish's settings of poems by Hafez, the 14th century Persian mystic, as its starting-point. Combining music, song, dance and animated image, it explores the longing and separation, as well as the sense of belonging and completeness that are so present in Hafez's poems: elements that somehow conflict with and complement one another in the same moment. The animated images are based on Jila Peacock's renderings of Hafez poetry in figural calligraphy.
Red Note will be joined by the multi-faceted singer and dancer/choreographer, Michael Popper, and the outstanding young Iranian setar player Anoosh Jahanshahi, who will perform his own Songs from Hafez in traditional Persian classical style.
>> SPECIAL FAMILY CONCERT AND WORKSHOP Woodend Barn 10:30am 17 November: Red Note and Michael Popper will introduce and perform parts of The Intoxicating Rose Garden for younger audiences. Expect animals, fish and birds, playing, singing and dancing!
This is a one-off, site-specific music-and-theatre piece about the predicted apocalypse, for an audience of 100 people only. With new work by Gareth Williams, John Harris, Oliver Emanuel, Hanna Tuulikki, Colin Broom and Ludwig van Beethoven about beginnings and endings, time and nothingness, the things we leave behind and what we want to take into the future.
“Who can bear himself forgotten?” (WH Auden)
Director Andy Arnold
Performers Red Note Ensemble
Composers Gareth Williams, John Harris, Hanna Tuulikki, Colin Broom, Ludwig van Beethoven
Writer Oliver Emanuel
In Partnership with Summerhall and the Traverse Theatre
RED NOTE Autumn Programme 2012
Programme:
Arvo Pårt “Fratres”
Henryk Gorecki “Songs are Sung” (5th Mvmnt)
Toru Takemitsu “a way a lone”
Beethoven “Hymn of Thanks” (Op. 132 3rd Mvmnt)
