At Sixes and Sevens announced for City of Culture 2013
We are delighted to be involved in the groundbreaking new commission At Sixes and Sevens which has just been announced as part of City of Culture in Derry-Londonderry in 2013. We have been working with The Honourable The Irish Society and a range of local and London based partners for a number of years on the project and it is great to see it coming together.
To mark the 400th anniversary of the unique relationship between Derry~Londonderry and the City of London a new cantata has been commissioned from two of the world’s leading creators in words and music.
At Sixes and Sevens will consist of five sections written by the Pulitzer-prizewinning Northern Irish poet, Paul Muldoon, and the composer Mark Anthony Turnage. The work will be interspersed with four further sections devised by communities in Derry~Londonderry and London.
The world premier will be given on the 3rd July 2013 simultaneously in the two Guildhalls of London and Derry~Londonderry linked live using technology. At Sixes and Sevens will be performed by Camerata Ireland, the London Symphony Orchestra, soloists, choirs and specially formed community ensembles.
Commissioned by The Honourable The Irish Society the project has been instrumental in setting up a unique partnership between Camerata Ireland with Barry Douglas, the Verbal Arts Centre, St Cecilia’s College, Wall2Wall Music, Barbican/Guildhall Creative Learning, the London Symphony Orchestra and the City of London Festival.
These cultural relationships, the work itself and the establishment of local community ensembles which will remain after the performance are the significant legacies of the project.
