Bpo Listening Club: Antarctica (Vaughan Williams To Jonny Greenwood)

Joanna MacGregor takes the lead at Brighton Unitarian Church on Thursday 3 December for the Bpo Listening Club, an illustrated talk that works its way through the music of the concert Antarctica, from Vaughan Williams to Jonny Greenwood. It's part of a series of one-hour, informal sessions MacGregor runs throughout the season, each one diving deeper into the music of the Bpo's concert programme.

The focus here is Antarctica, a programme that pulls together works by Vaughan Williams and Jonny Greenwood. MacGregor's talk is designed to illuminate and entertain, and it does that by unpacking the composers' intentions, the social context behind the work, and the musical motifs to listen out for. If you're planning on seeing the concert itself, it's the kind of thing that gives you a way into the music before you hear it live.

As part of the Listening Club, this is an illustrated talk rather than a performance, so it's more about the stories and the structure behind the music than the music on its own. MacGregor leads the session, and it's an hour long, which is enough time to get a proper look at the programme without it becoming a whole evening's affair. The Listening Club as a whole is built around these one-hour sessions, each one taking a different part of the season's concert programme and opening it up.

It runs at Brighton Unitarian Church on New Road, BN1 1UF, on Thursday 3 December, starting at 18:00 and lasting one hour. Tickets are £10.00 guide price.