Day of Psalms: Blue Hours

GBSR Duo are playing Blue Hours at the Stephen A. Schwarzman Centre for the Humanities on Saturday 28 November, and it's a sunrise concert, so you'll need to be there early. The music is by James Weeks, and the duo brings together George Barton and Siwan Rhys. It's the opening act of Day of Psalms, a day-long programme curated by the writer and artist Edmund de Waal.

De Waal frames the whole day as an immersion in the Psalms, read as texts of exile, faith and shared human experience. He describes them as 'songs of exile — sung, recited, remembered, prayed, danced and translated across centuries and cultures', central to Jewish and Christian traditions and resonant with the Islamic tradition of the Zabur. The day spans music, poetry, spoken word, visual art and craft, with the Psalms inspiring music, poetry, sacred art and dance across cultures.

Blue Hours opens the day at 07:00 in the centre's Black Box, and the programme continues throughout the afternoon and evening in the Sohmen Concert Hall. At 13:30, the Colin Currie Group performs Steve Reich's Tehillim, and at 19:00, the Aurora Orchestra plays Bernstein's Chichester Psalms with the BBC Singers. If you're up for it, you can follow the day from the first light of the morning through to the evening.

So, if you fancy a very early start, Blue Hours kicks things off at 07:00 on Saturday 28 November in the Black Box at the Stephen A. Schwarzman Centre for the Humanities.