Music

Joby Burgess

A Percussionist's Songbook

Wed 11 Oct 2023

Djanogly Theatre

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‘Percussionist extraordinaire Joby Burgess’ performs A Percussionist’s Songbook.

A Percussionist’s Songbook is collection of specially commissioned ‘songs without words’ from John Metcalfe, Tunde Jegede, Dario Marianelli, Yazz Ahmed, Graham Fitkin, Dobrinka Tabakova and Gabriel Prokofiev. Scored for an arsenal of pitched percussion and electronics the songbook is inspired by texts ranging from the poetry of Robert Graves and Birago Diop to novels by Michael Ondaatje and Isaac Asimov; American philosopher Michael Sandel, songwriter Peter Gabriel, United Nations population growth statistics and Saudi Arabian folk tales.

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