In Our Music, Our Story, Music Theatre Wales presents a collection of new works which echo the past and hail the future, including

  • New short works by young composers from Wales aged 14 – 18 workshopped and developed at the Parc and Dare and performed by Sinfonia Cymru
  • The screen premiere of a new Film Noir Digital Detective Opera created by young people aged 16 – 25 filmed in the corridors and backstage at the Parc and Dare

and two new works created by Welsh composer Luke Lewis which spring from local voices

  • Quiet Thoughts / Myfyrdodau Tawel – The voices of the present from Harriet Fleuriot’s recently created film Interior Windows interviewing local women
  • The Echoes Return Slow – Using the ever-powerful voices of the past from the 1971 film Women of the Rhondda mixed with interviews with local miners recorded in the Workingmen’s Institute (now the Parc and Dare) by Alan Lomax in 1953 as he toured the world recording local folk music and traditions. Originated as a London Sinfonietta commission for their Writing the Future programme.

Luke Lewis’s work will be performed by Sinfonia Cymru, conducted by Iwan Teifion Davies, incorporating film and tape and a newly commissioned poem from Owen Sheers, created in collaboration with and read by Kyle Stead.

An evening of reflections past and present and a revelation of creativity to come.

Compere – Samuel Bees.

Our Music, Our Story takes place at the Parc and Dare Theatre, Treorchy on Thursday 11th September at 7.30pm

For tickets please click HERE.

Before the performance, Music Theatre Wales is also presenting a discussion event at Treorchy Library – The Artist and the Archive.

This panel-led discussion is hosted by Treorchy Library and will begin at 5pm, followed by supper. Click HERE for further information.

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Made possible with funding from:

Colwinston Charitable Trust, The D’Oyly Carte Charitable Trust, Gwendoline and Margaret Davies Charity, Samuel Gardner Memorial Trust, Hodge Foundation, The Radcliffe Trust, New College, Oxford, Garfield Weston Foundation, a Chyngor Celfyddydau Cymru.
 

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