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Listen to the 20th Century
Journey through an odyssey into the
history of 20th century music led by
the awesome London Sinfonietta. In
the wake of the much-acclaimed and
ambitious festival, The Rest Is Noise, in
London, the London Southbank Centre
and London Sinfonietta will delight
audiences in Singapore by bringing this
sweeping expedition through the 20th
century music in a four-day tour-de-force.
A concert entitled Early Modernism
and the Jazz Age opens this programme
with music of the turn of the century
that reveals early breaks with classical
traditions. Audiences will then dive
into The Age of Fear, which will feature
masterpieces by Russian composers
whose works suffered censorship at the
hands of the Soviet regime.
In an epic three-part concert, Post War
Listen to the 20th Century
3– 7 September, School OfThe Arts Concert Hall
Tickets: EarlyModernismand the Jazz Age–SGD80, SGD60, SGD40
The Age of Fear –SGD80, SGD60, SGD40
PostWar Directions –SGD100, SGD80, SGD60
NoMore Rules –SGD80, SGD60, SGD40
(10%discount for students, NSFs and seniors aged 55 and above)
AmidThe Clouds
11 – 13 September, School Of The
Arts StudioTheatre
Ticket: SGD35 (10% discount for
students, NSFs and seniors aged
55 and above)
Go on a journey Amid The
Clouds
Amoving tale of lives touched by
loss and the forces of history, one
of Iran’s most admired young
playwrights, Amir Reza Koohes-
tani, crafts Amid the Clouds as
a poignant exploration of the
condition of displacement. For
the first time in Singapore, the
playwright who has taken Tehran
and European contemporary the-
atre by storm in the last decade
will be presenting his work.
The play follows two asy-
lum seekers forced from their
homeland into an unknown
world – Imour, a hardened young
man wounded by the loss of
his family on a journey from
Bosnia to Croatia, pressing on
with little more than the clothes
on his back, and Zina, a pregnant
young woman, buoyed by the
dream of claiming residency with
her unborn child in England.
Together, they form a delicate
Directions leads us into a fascinating
period of experimentation with pioneers
of the avant-garde, contemporary spiri-
tuality and minimalism. Fast forward to
the “now” in the final concert, No More
Rules, the audience will find the new
and radical compositions a stimulating
surprise. Wonderfully distilling the bril-
liance of a century of music, this concert
series will also feature Singapore’s Yong
Siew Toh Conservatory Orchestra.
bond as they travel across the Balkans
to England. Harsh reality tests their will
and challenges their quest to find out
who they are, as they struggle to cross the
English Channel to reach the “promised
land”.
A contemporary odyssey of sorts, the
play which will be performed in Farsi
with English subtitles, highlights lives on
the margin and expresses the universal
condition of the will to survive. Full of
poetic imagery and intense emotions,
Amid the Clouds will draw you into the
everyday lives and emotional landscapes
of Imour and Zina. Absorbing and cathar-
tic, Amid the Clouds will reorientate your
perception of the world through the eyes
of the dispossessed.