LCO New: Track to Track 2011/12
LCO presents Track to Track, a New Music 20x12 commission awarded by PRS for Music Foundation as part of the London 2012 Cultural Olympiad, celebrating Britain's railway past, present and future.
Inspired by the 1936 Post Office information film Night Mail by Benjamin Britten and W. H. Auden, the music is composed by Graham Fitkin (winner of British Composer Award 2009) with text by Glyn Maxwell (shortlisted for Forward, Whitbread and T. S. Eliot prizes). Track to Track will be premiered by LCO musicians with the Graham Fitkin Band at Cadogan Hall on March 22nd 2012.
Further performances are planned at London's Southbank Centre in July 2012 and at St Pancras Station.
Track to Track involves LCO and Barnardo's Music Junction children in preparation, composition and performance.
Download the Track to Track presentation PDF here.
Listen to Graham Fitkin's Vamp.
"We welcome this wonderful piece that will converge Olympic culture, sport and transport like never before - a synthesis for the London 2012 Games and the twenty-first century."
Hugh Sumner, Director of Transport, Olympic Delivery Association
New Music 20x12 is a UK-wide commissioning programme initiated by Jillian Barker and David Cohen, and delivered by PRS for Music Foundation in partnership with the BBC, LOCOG, Sound and Musicand NMC Recordings.
Special thanks to London Chamber Orchestra Trust and LCO’s private benefactors for making this New Music 20x12 commission possible.
New Music 20x12 is generously supported by the following committed patrons and funders: Arts Council England, Creative Scotland, John S. Cohen Foundation, PRS for Music Foundation, Arts Council of Northern Ireland, Arts Council of Wales, Columbia Foundation Fund of the Capital Community Foundation, Incorporated Society of Musicians, Musicians Benevolent Fund, Jerwood Charitable Foundation, RVW Trust, Charlotte and Dennis Stevenson, Tolkien Trust, The Leche Trust, The Bliss Trust, Finzi Trust, The Worshipful Company of Musicians, Lilian Slowe, John and Ann Tusa, John Wates Charitable Trust, Richard Walduck, Honeymead Arts Trust, and Sir Anthony Cleaver.
New Music 20x12 is a UK wide programme which consists of twenty outstanding new works, each lasting 12 minutes, commissioned to feature centre stage of the London 2012 Cultural Olympiad. New Music 20x12 commissions will be broadcast by BBC Radio 3 and tour the UK, enabling as many people as possible to enjoy excellent new music as part of our celebrations of the London 2012 Olympic Games and Paralympic Games.