With three ELMG commissions alongside well-known works, this was one of our most ambitious performance projects up to this point, presented at Rich Mix in Shoreditch.

ELMG commissions included the funky and infectious Phoenix Fanfare by Leo Geyer; Ella Jarman-Pinto’s : Insert Expletive Here : which celebrates the people who lost their lives in the Black Lives Matter Movement; and a second performance of Robin Haigh’s beautiful and dramatic work for narrators and ensemble 1936: An East London Uprising, which describes the story of the Battle of Cable Street using period journalism, eyewitness accounts, and Hansard.

These works were presented alongside a the beautifully simple Sirens by Howard Skempton, a CoMA commission, and a little-known piece Chamber Concerto No.1 by Scottish composer Thea Musgrave. The evening concluded with the magnificent, chaotic, and cartoonish Chamber Symphony by John Adams.

Narration was by Cerrita Smith and Joseph Hardy.