The Los Angeles Philharmonic have announced that Ellen Reid will curate Noon to Midnight: Field Recordings, a 12-hour festival featuring live performances and art installations activating every corner of the Walt Disney Concert Hall campus on Saturday, November 16, 2024, from noon to midnight. This edition of the LA Phil’s beloved new-music marathon explores the intersections of art, technology and nature through the theme of field recordings.
Noon to Midnight features the work of visionary composers performed by a host of Los Angeles-based ensembles and solo artists. In her statement on the festival, curator and Pulitzer Prize-winning composer Ellen Reid said, “The works can be revelatory, challenging, mournful, joyful and meditative. Various perspectives converge in a dynamic conversation throughout the day, exploring how curious, creative humans use sound to carve their own unique paths through physical and emotional landscapes. Noon to Midnight is a celebration of creativity in Los Angeles and an invitation to listen deeply to the world around us."
The festival features work by more than 35 composers, including 14 premieres. Fifteen ensembles will perform along with five conductors throughout the day.
Some programme highlights include Reid's Oscillations: 100 Years and Forever which will be performed by USC Thornton Chamber Singers. George Lewis' Le témoignage des lumières will receive its West Coast Premiere, and the Calder Quartet will perform Missy Mazzoli's Death Valley Junction, John Luther Adams' Canticles of the Sky. Adam's Dark Waves will also be performed by the LA Phil New Music Group, who will later give the World Premiere of Tessellatum by Donnacha Dennehy alongside Viola soloist Nadia Sirota. Opening the main stage, Delirium Musicum give a concert including the fourth movement of Philip Glass' Violin Concerto No. 2.
Find out more and view the full programme here.
