Planet Tree Music Festival - second weekend

Dear Friends and acquaintances
Planet Tree Music Festival continues this Friday and Saturday (9 & 10
November) at Conway Hall and the October Gallery.
Do come to both concerts if you can,.......see press release below.

The Friday will be a rare opportunity to hear Tania Chen play the piano
music of Alan Hovhaness, who died in June 2000, and also of Lou Harrison.

Saturday will be a concert of music spanning 23 years by myself, Lawrence
Ball, with a broad array of solo, duo and quartet compositions, plus solo
improvisations. This is perhaps the most comprehensive concert I will yet
have put on, covering most of the areas in which I work (improvisation,
harmonically patterned scores, the more intuitive scores and also some
retuned synthesizer, courtesy of the prolific musician/composer and scale
designer Jacky Ligon (from North Carolina, USA)).

Here's the programme (see also http://www.planettree.org)

best and highest regards to you
Lawrence Ball
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Alan Hovhaness Memorial with Music by Lou Harrison and John Cage - Tania
Chen
Friday 9 November, 7.30 pm
Conway Hall, £10 (£6 concessions)
First half: John Cage and Lou Harrison
John Cage
Dream
In A Landscape 1948
Lou Harrison
Reel- Homage to Henry Cowell
Little Suite (for piano): Pastorale, Quadrille, Chorale
Sarabande
Waltz in C; Hesitation Waltz; Waltz in A

Second Half
Alan Hovhaness (memorial concert)
Do You Remember The Last Silence op.152
Sonata - Lake of Van (2nd and 3rd movements
"Solemn" and "Rubato") op.175
Twelve Armenian Folk Songs op.43
Bare November Day -
Prelude - Largo and Hymn IV op.210

Lawrence Ball at 50
Saturday 10 November, 7.30 pm
October Gallery, £10 (£6 concessions)
Piano and synthesiser improvisations,
Cathedral (1978)(soprano solo), Forever (1980)(soprano and oboe), Duo String
Study 1* (1998) (violin and viola), Violin Study No. 4* (1997), Blue String*
(1995) (string quartet), Three Movements from Viola Suites 1 (1982) & 2
(1990) (viola solo), Woodberry*, Coloured Echoing Gaps in Space* and Soft
Animations* (all 2001) (cor anglais, violin, viola and cello)

Lawrence Ball (piano,synthesizer), Althea Ifeka (cor anglais, oboe), Amanda
Chancellor (viola), Rosemary Forbes-Butler (soprano), Neil Davis (viola),
Marina Solarek (violin), Brian Wright (violin), Abigail Trundle (cello).

Each concert will be accompanied by computer graphic projections developed
by Dave Snowdon and Lawrence Ball, called Visual Harmony. The Hovhaness
memorial will also have projections of the paintings of Nicholas Roerich,
the Russian artist.

BOOKING INFORMATION AND VENUES
Tickets available on: 020 8444 4073
or on the door.
See individual concerts for prices

Conway Hall
Red Lion Square, London, WC1
Nearest Tube: Holborn

October Gallery
24 Old Gloucester Street, London, WC1
Nearest Tube: Russell Square

For more information, try these, too:
http://www.visualharmony.org
http://www.taniachen.com
http://www.echoes.org/webcast.html

The Planet Tree Music Festival: a platform in the promotion of innovation
in new music.