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Dopo l'imprevista cancellazione dell'edizione dello scorso anno, riparte l'eccellente festival londinese di musiche improvvisate Freedom of the City, diretto da Evan Parker e da Eddie Prévost e gestito in larga parte direttamente dai musicisti che vi partecipano; il programma è concentrato in due giorni, il 3 e il 4 maggio prossimi, con una quindicina di concerti pomeridiani e serali, tutti presso la storica sede di Conway Hall, in Red Lion Square.
Freedom of the City is the UK's premier festival of new and improvised music, and one of the most important festivals of its kind in the world.
Founded in 2001 by percussionist Eddie Prévost, saxophonist Evan Parker, and Emanem label boss Martin Davidson, Freedom of the City showcases the often overlooked excellence and diversity of new and improvised music in London. It has established itself as an annual event (with an unexpected and unwanted absence in 2008) which brings together the best of London's improvising community, with welcome guests from elsewhere. Their support is always at their own expense and is a remarkable show of solidarity.
Freedom of the City is one of the few artist run music festivals, and the fact that it is organised by and for musicians means that music is its sole consideration, and it is not dressed up in flashy but ill fitting marketing conceits and fashionable concepts, as it is in some other festivals. What you hear at Freedom of the City is what the musicians want you to hear and nothing else. No special demands are made of them, no templates imposed, no rhetoric or theories foisted upon them - they are simply given a space in which they can be free as musicians and you, the audience, are invited to share that freedom with them.
Founded in 2001 by percussionist Eddie Prévost, saxophonist Evan Parker, and Emanem label boss Martin Davidson, Freedom of the City showcases the often overlooked excellence and diversity of new and improvised music in London. It has established itself as an annual event (with an unexpected and unwanted absence in 2008) which brings together the best of London's improvising community, with welcome guests from elsewhere. Their support is always at their own expense and is a remarkable show of solidarity.
Freedom of the City is one of the few artist run music festivals, and the fact that it is organised by and for musicians means that music is its sole consideration, and it is not dressed up in flashy but ill fitting marketing conceits and fashionable concepts, as it is in some other festivals. What you hear at Freedom of the City is what the musicians want you to hear and nothing else. No special demands are made of them, no templates imposed, no rhetoric or theories foisted upon them - they are simply given a space in which they can be free as musicians and you, the audience, are invited to share that freedom with them.
Sunday 2pm:
Ray Warleigh / Hannah Marshall / Alison Blunt / Tony Marsh
Rodrigo Montoya / Andrew Robinson / Ute Kanngiesser / Olie Brice / Thebe Lipere
Steve Beresford / Peter Evans / Okkyung Lee
Sunday 4pm:
London Improvisers Orchestra
Sunday 7pm:
The Post Quartet with Christian Wolff
Sunday 9pm:
AMM with Christian Wolff
Monday 2pm:
Seymour Wright / Sebastian LexerRoss Lambert / Paul Abbott / Jerry Wigens
John Lely / John White
Monday 4pm:
John Butcher / John Edwards
Ute Wasserman / Aleks Kolkowski
John Coxon / Mark Sanders / Pat Thomas
Monday 7pm:
John Russell’s QuaQua
Lol Coxhill (solo)
Alan Wilkinson / John Bissett / James Dunn
Monday 9pm:
Tony Marsh / Alexander Hawkins
Evan Parker / John Russell / John Edwards / Peter Evans
Freedom of the City
Conway Hall, 25 Red Lion Square, London WC1R 4RL