{"id":2782,"date":"2011-05-04T10:48:13","date_gmt":"2011-05-04T09:48:13","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/music-matters\/?p=2782"},"modified":"2011-10-18T11:18:56","modified_gmt":"2011-10-18T10:18:56","slug":"a-feast-of-contemporary-music-sounds-new-festival-starts-soon","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/music-matters\/2011\/05\/04\/a-feast-of-contemporary-music-sounds-new-festival-starts-soon\/","title":{"rendered":"A feast of contemporary music: Sounds New festival starts soon!"},"content":{"rendered":"

With just over two weeks until Canterbury is bursting with contemporary music, cast your eye over the events listings<\/a> for this year if you haven’t already done so. The festival celebrates the music of the Baltic, with compositions and performers from countries including Estonia, Latvia and Lithuania alongside a veritable banquet of contemporary works by other composers.<\/p>\n

\"\"<\/a>The Choir of King’s College, Cambridge will be giving the UK premiere of Arvo P\u00e4rt’s Adam’s Lament<\/em> in a concert in the Cathedral on Friday 27; P\u00e4rt is this year’s Guest Composer, and the same concert also features his Cantus in Memoriam Benjamin Britten<\/em><\/a> as well as Britten, Gorecki and Nicholas Maw.<\/p>\n

Choral evensong earlier in the afternoon on the same day will include P\u00e4rt’s I Am The True Vine<\/em> and Magnificat<\/em>, with the Choir of Canterbury Cathedral directed by David Flood. Elsewhere during the festival season, there’s also a conference on Baltic music and musicologies, and papers on the music of P\u00e4rt in particular.<\/p>\n