Birmingham International Concert Season 2011/12
Scott of the Antarctic Centenary Concert
Conquering the Antarctic
Symphony Hall
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This landmark concert retraces the steps of Captain Scott’s ill-fated expedition to the South Pole in music, images and words. Excerpts from Vaughan Williams’s film score for Scott of the Antarctic (1947) are interwoven with moving readings from Scott’s diary, read by Hugh Bonneville, and the world premiere of a piece setting words from Scott’s poignant final letter, ‘To my widow’. A stunning selection of Herbert Ponting’s original expedition photos will be projected during the Sinfonia Antartica.
Click Here to view City of London Sinfonia’s blog post Conquering the Antarctic – In Pictures
Click Here to view City of London Sinfonia’s blog post Who was Captain Scott?
Click Here to hear an interview with UK composer Cecilia McDowall and poet Sean Street
Vaughan Williams Excerpts from Scott of the Antarctic 30’
(narrator: Hugh Bonneville)
Cecilia McDowall Seventy Degrees Below Zero 25’
(world premiere)
Vaughan Williams Sinfonia Antartica 41’
(with photos from the 1910 Antarctic Expedition)
In association with the Scott Polar Research Institute.
Scott of the Antarctic Centenary Concert is supported by Arts Council England, Colwinston Charitable Trust, The RVW Trust, The Richard Hickox Fund for New Music, The Summerfield Charitable Trust and Vaughan Williams Charitable Trust.
City of London Sinfonia
Holst Singers
Stephen Layton conductor
Hugh Bonneville narrator
£9.50, £15, £20, £25, £30, £35, £40*
60plus: £9.50, £14.50, £19, £24, £28.50, £33.50, £38*
Discounts also available for children, students and under 25s, wheelchair users, disabled patrons and their companions, concert package bookers and groups of 11+. For more details on all discounts and how to book click here.
Choir, Chorus Boxes and Stalls front four rows not available.
Reduced availability in the Terraces, Upper Circle Ledges, Grand Tier Ledges and Platform Boxes.
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