Bragg and Beethoven - the hell?

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US premiere of Beethoven's 'Bragg' Ninth on 29 August

15/06/09Billy's rewritten libretto for the choral version of Beethoven's Ninth Symphony will receive its United States premiere in Los Angeles, California, on 29 August.

The symphony, including Billy's version of the Fourth Movement, will be performed by the Asia America Youth Orchestra conducted by David Benoit, at the Broad Stage in Santa Monica. It will benefit Clergy and Laity United for Economic Justice in LA.

Billy will be on hand to perform and lead the audience in a singalong of his English version of Schiller's Ode to Joy.

The Bragg version of the hymn to brotherhood and sisterhood was first performed at the reopening of the Royal Festival Hall in London in June 2007.

The following October it was performed again at the same venue by the London Philharmonic Orchestra in front of HM Queen Elizabeth II.

Billy wrote about the experience in an article for the Daily Mail newspaper in the UK: 'How The Queen Charmed the Pants off Me'.

The story of how Billy became involved is captured in a documentary that tracks the global impact of the Ninth - Following The Ninth: In The Footsteps of Beethoven's Ninth Symphony www.followingtheninth.com - to be released in 2010.

If you are fond both of music and economic justice, please support the U.S. premiere of the Beethoven 'Billy Bragg' Ninth. If you can't be in Los Angeles for the event, please let your Los Angelano friends know about it.

In keeping with the Ninth’s spirit of international connection, several other groups from across the Los Angeles and Santa Monica ethnic communities will perform their versions of different parts of the Ninth.

Artists include: Dwight Trible (Jazz), Susie Glaze (Bluegrass), Banda Philharmonica (Oaxacan brass ensemble), Ernest Troost (Blues), Justin Bischof (Pianist), and the Dafra Drum and Dance Project from Burkina Faso.

Battle Hymns Productions
www.battlehymnsproductions.com

http://www.billybragg.co.uk/news/news_story.php?id=523


BF, will you go for me?

[withahip]

I'm good. Thanks though!

[shadows on the trees]

I'm good. Thanks though!

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Sounds like total crap.

[JackT]

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[tonywojo]

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i wouldnt even cross the road to see it

[DivaDiana77]

i wouldnt even cross the road to see it

Wow, you guys talked about this! Just found this old thread. I actually sang in the choir for the US performance. Got to meet Billy Bragg after the show.