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| James Larter |
In July this year, percussionist James Larter joined Frederick Waxman and his ensemble Figure to reimagine Vivaldi's The Four Seasons for an array of pitched and unpitched percussion instruments alongside the strings. Now Larter and Waxman are taking this collaboration further as Larter has written a percussion concerto, Toros, to be premiered by Sinfonia Smith Square on 6 November with Waxman conducting at Smith Square Hall. The concert is called, with a hint of Miles Davis, Spanish Sketches and also features music by Victoria, Boccherini, Arriaga, and Victor Jarra.
James Larter's Toros is inspired by Picasso's art and Neruda's poetry. The two men were friends. In 1949, Neruda appeared at the First World Congress of Partisans for Peace, in Paris having spent the preceding months in hiding in Chile. Picasso had secured the poet’s legal right to appear in public in France despite an arrest warrant in Chile. In his poem 'Picasso' from Grapes and the Wind, Neruda describes the painter’s studio in the south of France and celebrates his art.
The programme includes Boccherini's Symphony No. 6 in D minor, ’The House of the Devil' written just before he left Vienna for Spain. The work's subtitle, which may not be authentic, could derive from the inspiration Boccherini drew from Gluck's Don Juan ballet. Also in the programme will be the Symphony in D major by Juan Crisóstomo Arriaga, accomplished Basque composer who died at only 19. Finally there will be a jazz fusion arrangement of a song by Victor Jarra, the Chilean John Lennon, Manifesto which Frederick Waxman has written for orchestra, in which Larter and he will improvise.
Full details from the Sinfonia Smith Square website.
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