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Anna Clyne: Looking Glass

Anna Clyne leaning against a wall
24 June 2026 19:30
Sohmen Concert Hall, Schwarzman Centre
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Tickets £15.30 - £30.80

Anna Clyne leaning against a wall

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Stravinsky Dumbarton Oaks 14'

Dvorak String Quartet No. 12 in F major, Op. 96 'The American' 25'

Alexander McNamee Concealment (premiere) 7'

Interval

Anna Clyne Looking Glass (premiere) 15'

Copland Appalachian Spring (Suite for 13 instruments)  27'

A musical realm where things aren't quite as they seem...  

A new composition from Grammy Award-nominated British American composer Anna Clyne in collaboration with Grammy Award-winning American sound designer Jody Elff, exploring light as it reflects and refracts, bounces and shimmers, bends and dances.   
  
Looking Glass brings together the Adler Quartet, Ensemble Isis, the St Anne's Camerata, and conductor Alpesh Chauhan to create a captivating contemporary orchestral experience. 
  
Inspired by the magic of author Lewis Carroll, who used the looking glass as a metaphor for entering a surreal, unfamiliar and reversed world, this is a soundscape both mysterious and playful, classical and contemporary.     
  
Also being performed is Dvořák's radiant American Quartet which blends the spirit of African American spirituals with his own Bohemian lyricism, creating a uniquely transatlantic masterpiece of folk-inspired chamber music. Closing the evening is the 13-piece chamber ensemble version of Aaron Copland's Appalachian Spring, rooted in the idea of the American Dream and shaped by Shaker culture, which emerged in the USA around the time of the signing of the Declaration of Independence. 

Anna Clyne, Jody Elff and tonight's performers have been working with Professor John Traill in preparation for this performance.

 

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