Proms at … Bold Tendencies Multi-Storey Car Park, Peckham: 3.09.16

[Eine Alpensinfonie]

(12:00 Saturday 3 Sep 2016
Bold Tendencies Multi-Storey Car Park, Peckham - not being broadcast
15:00 Saturday 3 Sep 2016
Bold Tendencies Multi-Storey Car Park, Peckham


Steve Reich: Vermont Counterpoint
Steve Reich: Eight Lines
Steve Reich: Music for a Large Ensemble

Multi-Story Orchestra
Christopher Stark conductor

The Proms steps out of the Royal Albert Hall and into a municipal car park in Peckham to salute the man who reconnected art music to urban culture in all its drive, repetition and asymmetry.
South London favourites Christopher Stark and the Multi-Story Orchestra make their Proms debut in an all-Reich performance on their home ground.
The programme includes Reich's bright and excitable Music for a Large Ensemble - his first major work for full orchestra - and the shifting patterns of his single-movement 'octet' Eight Lines.

http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b07rkv00

[Eine Alpensinfonie]

Proms in the Car Park?

[Prommer]

Has anyone else had bold tendencies in a Peckham car park... Or indeed any car park? It seems niche, even in this day and age.

Will Stark be naked?

[Eine Alpensinfonie]

Will Stark be naked?

Possible the sort of gimmick Radio 3 now considers to be "cool".

[kernelbogey]

Has anyone else had bold tendencies in a Peckham car park... Or indeed any car park? It seems niche, even in this day and age...

Car parks kinda do that to me - on some level.

[EdgeleyRob]

Do you need a ticket ?

[kernelbogey]

Do you need a ticket ?

Pay and display?

[Prommer]

Is this an event for those who confuse their entrances with their exits?

[ferneyhoughgeliebte]

Sounds fine to me.


But not as big if you pay early.

[ahinton]

If you overstay you presumably attract a penalty charge; might the same go for the music if it overstays its welcome?

[Richard Tarleton]

Car parks kinda do that to me - on some level.

Edinburgh Fringe gag of the year a couple of years ago - crime in multi-storey car parks - it's wrong on so many levels.

[Serial_Apologist]

If one were just to attend this concert out of inquisitiveness, that would presumably make one a nosey parker.

[ahinton]

If one were just to attend this concert out of inquisitiveness, that would presumably make one a nosey parker.

No doubt, but at least concerts like this are no barrier to such inquisitiveness. Pay 'n' just' play.

[Bryn]

Better sound engineering than I expected. I did find it strange, however, that while drawing attention to the revision of the Octet into Eight Lines, no mention was made of the significant revisions to Music for a Large Ensemble after its first performance. The original, longer and more lightly scored, version may be heard here.

[Eine Alpensinfonie]

No doubt, but at least concerts like this are no barrier to such inquisitiveness. Pay 'n' just' play.

I dunno. I'd feel quite intimidated by the prospect of going to a concert in a car park in Peckham.