Over two weeks in November 2009 the Philharmonia Orchestra took over the Bargehouse on London’s South Bank as part of a project to show every section of the Orchestra performing Rite of Spring simultaneously ‘as live’ throughout the four-storey warehouse building. The public were able to sit amongst the horn players, perform in the percussion section and take up the baton and control sections of the Orchestra as they play.
The ambitious project, made possible through the support of the Paul Hamlyn Foundation, was the brainchild of the Philharmonia’s Principal Conductor and Artistic Advisor Esa-Pekka Salonen, who developed the concept with the Philharmonia Orchestra’s Digital Department.
RE-RITE will be moving to the Phoenix Arts Centre, Leicester in March 2010.
Being inside an orchestra, experiencing the sensation of 101 players taking on this iconic music is one of the biggest adrenalin rushes, and one that I want to share with the world. Now we’re doing just that.
Esa-Pekka Salonen, Principal Conductor and Artistic Advisor
To find out more about the project visit www.re-rite.co.uk
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