Musarc

Christmas Concert 2014

Saturday 20 December 2014, 7.30pm
Christ Church Spitalfields
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Christmas Concert 2014

Musarc’s Christmas concert 2014 took place in one of Hawksmoore’s great London churches, and saw the culmination of our year-long collaboration with composers Clay Gold, Eloise Nancie Gynn and Lee Westwood through Sound and Music’s Portfolio Scheme.

The performance opened with lighting a 2m tall beeswax candle by Matthew Dalziel, which was made on site during the day. Before the concert and during the interval, the audience was invited to weave a tapestry on Jessica Smulders Cohen’s Expanded Instrument No. 5, a loom constructed between two columns of the building.

The concert included a screening of Laure Prouvost’s How to make money religiously, a new film firt shown on the occasion of the artist’s show at the New Museum, New York, which features Musarc’s voices.

Marc Antoine Charpentier, O Antiphons (1690)

Francis Poulenc, Quatre motets pour le temps de noël (1951–2)

Three new works, commissioned through Sound and Music’s Portfolio Scheme 2013–4 (premiere)
Clay Gold, Bias
Eloise Gynn, Only breath
Lee Westwood, The architect

Laure Prouvost, How to make money religiously (2014), screening

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The making of the candle, the dismantling of its support structure and the moment of lighting the wick; and the loom in the building represent time and the social dimension of making music, and the process of conversation and negotiation.

Turkey sandwiches, mince pies and mulled cider prepared by Beatrice Loft Schulz and the ensemble. Olfactory table with oranges, spices, oils and incense by Neil Luck and Toby O’Connor.

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Christmas Concert 2014
Saturday 20 December 2014, 7.30pm

Christ Church Spitalfields

Commercial Street
London E1 6LY

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Christmas Concert 2014

Saturday 20 December 2014, 7.30pm
Christ Church Spitalfields

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