Music for a While

Singing Molenbeek, Equinox, Remua & Young Belgian Strings

In The Time of Our Singing, Ruth’s struggle for civil rights takes various forms. Convinced that the social development of her community should go hand-in-hand with education, she eventually builds a free school where music is used as an educational tool.

That is the spirit the singers of Singing Molenbeek and Equinox, accompanied by the Young Belgian Strings and Remua, want to celebrate in this vibrant concert in the Fiocco Room. These Brussels-based ensembles, which give young people the chance to learn to play music, deliver with great panache a programme that stretches from Antonio Vivaldi to Kris Defoort, and from Beethoven’s ‘Ode to Joy’ to traditional songs from Polynesia, Brazil and Guinea.

Programme
Antonio Vivaldi: Concerto No. 2 in G Minor, Op. 8, RV 315 (third movement)
Tongo, Polynesian traditional
Peixinhos do mar, Brazilian traditional
Üsküdar’a gider iken, traditional
MBélémama, Guinean traditional
Giorgos Kalogirou: Ksenitia you Erota
Ludwig van Beethoven: Ode to Joy, Symphony nr. 9, Op. 125
Karl Jenkins: Palladio (first movement)
Lamma Bada Yatathanna, traditional
Julien Joubert: Nous n’irons pas à l’opéra (excerpts)
Kris Defoort: The Time of Our Singing (excerpt)