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Nu Civilisation Orchestra - Firebird: A Stravinsky-Parker Sound Clash
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Adam Sieff
Saturday 3 March: Purcell Room, Southbank Centre, London Saturday 28 April: Turner Sims Concert Hall, Southampton Firebird is an engaging programme of new work exploring musical paths that converge at the crossroads of jazz and classical music. It's an exciting place where two musical revolutionaries—Igor Stravinsky and Charlie Parker—meet and cross swords utilising their distinctive armouries of rhythmic ingenuity and harmonic invention. Firebird features a remodelled version of Stravinsky's Ebony Concerto (originally commissioned by jazz clarinetist, Woody Herman in 1946); ...
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The Tomorrow's Warriors Jazz Orchestra becomes The Nu Civilisation Orchestra. New programme Firebird debuts Autumn 2011
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Adam Sieff
The Nu Civilisation Orchestra is the new name of the Tomorrow's Warriors Jazz Orchestra, a fully professional 16-piece orchestra comprising past and present members of the Tomorrow's Warriors artist development programme. Tomorrow's Warriors Artistic Director Gary Crosby OBE said, 'this is our response to feedback from promoters and the public who were not fully aware of our Orchestra's depth of quality and professional status. It is also to avoid any confusion with other Tomorrow's Warriors lineups, such as the Yamaha ...
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Nu Civilisation Orchestra
