London Symphony Orchestra | Joanna Lee: beams.bellows.bounds // Duncan Ward and the London Symphony Orchestra @LondonSymphonyOrchestra | Uploaded July 2024 | Updated October 2024, 1 day ago.
The LSO perform Joanna Lee's beams.bellow.bounds as part of the 2024 BMW Classics concert live from Trafalgar Square.
Programme note:
beams.bellows.bounds is inspired by my time working nearby Trafalgar Square, when I would often sit in the Square and observe the dance-like nature of life, from morning to late. This includes the balletic beams of the sun, glistening down onto the Square in the still and quiet of the morning, bringing it to life and creating moments of beauty and others when shadows disrupt its warmth as it hides behind structures. As human life awakens, the stillness is interrupted by a burgeoning and somewhat menacing presence, as traffic comes to the fore, moving in cyclical motion and brash bellows. This motion is curtailed by reflective moments, where the sun beams down on protesters, whose presence grows in lines, heartedly reflecting on the challenges our present world faces. This sadness subsides as street performers and crowds of happy revellers unashamedly play and dance in exuberant bounds, proudly celebrating in the revelry and vibrancy of music.
Compositionally, the piece is pervaded by a very simple and recurring motif of a falling second on a quaver and crotchet pairing. beams.bellows.bounds is really about the young musicians playing the piece – composed to develop and explore their technique, it endeavours to offer them a variety of material and for us all to celebrate in their talent, our musical future, and the importance of music and musicians as a whole.
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The LSO perform Joanna Lee's beams.bellow.bounds as part of the 2024 BMW Classics concert live from Trafalgar Square.
Programme note:
beams.bellows.bounds is inspired by my time working nearby Trafalgar Square, when I would often sit in the Square and observe the dance-like nature of life, from morning to late. This includes the balletic beams of the sun, glistening down onto the Square in the still and quiet of the morning, bringing it to life and creating moments of beauty and others when shadows disrupt its warmth as it hides behind structures. As human life awakens, the stillness is interrupted by a burgeoning and somewhat menacing presence, as traffic comes to the fore, moving in cyclical motion and brash bellows. This motion is curtailed by reflective moments, where the sun beams down on protesters, whose presence grows in lines, heartedly reflecting on the challenges our present world faces. This sadness subsides as street performers and crowds of happy revellers unashamedly play and dance in exuberant bounds, proudly celebrating in the revelry and vibrancy of music.
Compositionally, the piece is pervaded by a very simple and recurring motif of a falling second on a quaver and crotchet pairing. beams.bellows.bounds is really about the young musicians playing the piece – composed to develop and explore their technique, it endeavours to offer them a variety of material and for us all to celebrate in their talent, our musical future, and the importance of music and musicians as a whole.
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