Light Cuts Through Dark Skies

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979-0-57020-665-0	Light Cuts Through Dark Skies – Score	Available at MusicRoom	Buy now (£16.95)
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An accompaniment to Joris Ivens’s 1929 film Regen ('Rain').

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Duration

15 minutes

Premiere

New Music Players, Bath Festival, 1st June 2001

Scoring

1 Flute, 1 B-flat Clarinet, 1 Piano, 1 Violin, 1 Violoncello

Composition date

2001

New Music Players, Richard Casey (piano), New Music Vocal Ensemble

25th June 2012

23 March 2021	Turner Sims Concert Hall, University of Southampton	London Sinfonietta, conducted by Patrick Bailey Performance on YouTube (extract)
22 March 2021	Royal Festival Hall, Southbank Centre, London	London Sinfonietta, conducted by Patrick Bailey Performance on YouTube (extract)
17 June 2016	Attenborough Centre for the Creative Arts, University of Sussex, Falmer, Brighton	Orchestra of Sound and Light Ed Hughes, conductor with students from Dorothy Stringer High School, Brighton
2 June 2015	Senckenberg Museum, Frankfurt, Germany	Students from the Hochschule für Musik und Darstellende Kunst
9 May 2012	Institut für Neue Musik der Hochschule für Musik Freiburg, Germany
2 November 2008	International Symposium: Composing for the Films Internationale Hanns Eisler Gesellschaft e.V., Eisenbahnstrasse 21, 10997 Berlin	Ensemble Klangexekutive cond. Manuel Nawri
10 December 2007	Birmingham Conservatoire	New Music Players cond. Patrick Bailey
3 May 2007	The Jerusalem Music Center, Israel	Israel Contemporary Players cond. Xu Yi An
2 May 2007	The Studio, Jaffa, Tel Aviv, Israel	Israel Contemporary Players cond. Xu Yi An
8 December 2004	Pavilion Theatre, Brighton Dome	The New Music Players
4 November 2004	Lakeside Arts Centre, Nottingham University	The New Music Players
23 October 2004	Cheltenham Contemporary Concerts	The New Music Players