Location: 
London, UK
Venue: 
The Aldwych Underground Station, Tre Strand
Programme: 
Philippe Manour, Dickinson Studies; Feldman, The Viola In My Life 3; Thomas Adès, Darknesse Visible;Gregor Riddell, new work (world premiere, LCO commission);Øyvind Torvund, Neon Forest Space (UK premiere)
Website: 
Concert website
Concert
24.05.13 19:00

30 meters below street level

The London Contemporary Orchestra has a passion for unusual venues, and this was not the first time they played underground.

But this time they had chosen an unusually "secret" place.

The Aldwych Station is a disused tube station in London. There is usually no entry for the public and the station is only from time to time used for instance for film productions needing a sinister atmosphere.

On the 24th of May the London Contemporary Orchestra gave a concert of music chosen for this particular location. The air was oxygen poor, the lights dimmed, the music evocative and the audience limited to a small, chosen amount due to safety regulations.

Truly a concert experience for audiences who wanted to try something out of the ordinary.

The concert, titled “Imagined Occasions”, was the first in a groundbreaking series of site-responsive performances exploring the music of Claude Vivier.