How to survive The Night Shift…
Fri 8 Jul 2011
A day in the life of The Night Shift from Ceri’s perspective: It’s 9.30am on Friday 24th June, It’s been a looooong week: Monday Dublin, Tuesday Royal Festival Hall, Wednesday and Thursday catching up and meetings – and that’s just for me! I assume it’s been worse for the players who also had Glyndebourne…
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OAE plays….Stravinsky?!
Fri 15 Oct 2010
Tomorrow night’s concert at Kings Place is a pretty unusual affair. Not only is it a joint concert with the London Sinfonietta, but the second half in particular sees four very unusual things occur. First, we merge with the London Sinfonietta, to create a new ensemble made up of players from both orchestras. Second, together,…
Read MoreName your dream team and win…
Wed 13 Oct 2010
Wolfgang Amadeus Madonna anyone? This week we’re collaborating with the London Sinfonietta on REMIX, a 3-day festival celebrating remixing, reinventing and recyling music. Over three concerts we’re going to be looking at how composers have copied, stolen and taken inspiration from each other. For example, on Thursday the OAE plays Bach’s version of Pergolesi’s Stabat…
Read MoreREMIX comes together
Wed 13 Oct 2010
Yesterday morning was the culmination of what seems like months if not years of work for our concert on Saturday night. A little more complicated than usual, this concert is a mixture of OAE and London Sinfonietta players (our very distant relations who we share an office with). As part of having our headquarters at…
Read MoreOAE podcast looking at the new season ahead and more!
Wed 6 Oct 2010
Featuring: – Staff picks of the new season – A preview of the REMIX festival – A profile of OAE Projects Director Ceri Jones – OAE Viola player and Vice Chairman Martin Kelly picks out some of his favourite recordings. OAE Podcast October 2010 by OAE
Read More(Re)Mixing it up…
Tue 14 Sep 2010
In exactly 1 months time, we’ll be kicking off our three day festival Remix, a collaboration with London Sinfonietta. The festival explores the ideas of remixing, reinventing and recycling into a series of concerts, talks, film screenings and aftershows to be held at Kings Place, London from 14th October- 16th October. As both orchestras wanted…
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