Name: Prom 28: Songs of Wars I Have Seen
Start: 2024-08-09
End: 2024-08-09
Location: Royal Albert Hall

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BBC Proms

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London Sinfonietta

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Chloe Rooke

Orchestra of the Age of Enlightenment

Prom 28: Songs of Wars I Have Seen

London

United Kingdom

Royal Albert Hall

Prom 28: Songs of Wars I Have Seen: Songs of Wars That I Have Seen Goebbels

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Songs of Wars That I Have Seen

Paul Koneri

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About This Event
In 2007 new-music ensemble the London Sinfonietta and period-instrument outfit the Orchestra of the Age of Enlightenment together gave the first performance of Heiner Goebbels’s Songs of Wars I Have Seen, commissioned by the Southbank Centre to mark the reopening of the Royal Festival Hall. Seventeen years later, the two orchestras are reunited under fast-rising conductor Chloe Rooke for a London revival of this landmark setting of wartime diary entries by Gertrude Stein, a work that manages to prove harrowing, poignant and consoling all at once, and whose visions of war have scarcely been more relevant.

There will be no interval

Broadcast live on BBC Radio 3

English

Prom 28: Songs of Wars I Have Seen by Goebbels, Fri 09 Aug 2024, From (2024/2024), Conductor Chloe Rooke, Royal Albert Hall, London, United Kingdom

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