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The BBC Concert Orchestra play Jonny Greenwood's “smear” in London
The BBC Concert Orchestra, conducted by Charles Hazlewood, played Jonny Greenwood's “smear” at the Queen Elizabeth Hall in London on Wednesday 6 October. Greenwood has worked with the orchestra before, and the piece, from 2004, is written for two ondes Martenots and ensemble. Igor Toronyi-Lalic, reviewing the night for The Arts Desk, thought little of the piece. BBC Radio 3 is to broadcast the concert in Performance on 3 on 19 November at 7pm.
The ondes is the early electronic instrument Greenwood plays on Radiohead records, and the evening, the first of three Electronica concerts at the Southbank Centre, put it with the theremin and the Moog, and Jarvis Cocker presented it. Celia Sheen played the theremin in Miklos Rozsa's Spellbound Concerto, and Will Gregory of Goldfrapp brought Journeys into the Sky, new music for his Will Gregory Moog Ensemble.
Programme
| # | Composer | Work |
|---|---|---|
| 1 | Bernard Herrmann | The Day the Earth Stood Still (suite) |
| 2 | Andre Jolivet | Suite delphique |
| 3 | Jonny Greenwood | smear |
| 4 | Will Gregory | Journeys into the Sky (Will Gregory Moog Ensemble) |
| 5 | Otto Luening and Vladimir Ussachevsky | A Poem in Cycles and Bells |
| 6 | Miklos Rozsa | Spellbound Concerto |
| 7 | Kraftwerk, arranged for orchestra | The Model |