BBC to host Invitation Concert - Yearning For The Light
The BBC will host a special Invitation Concert of music and readings with the Ulster Orchestra and guests on BBC Radio 3 and BBC Radio Ulster/Foyle. The live broadcast will take place in the Ulster Hall beginning at 7.30pm on Wednesday 9 October.
Published: 26 September 2019
Yearning For The Light will explore themes of conflict, loss, remembrance and hope. It has been developed around music that was commissioned for recent BBC television programmes about The Troubles, including Lost Lives (produced by DoubleBand Films) and Spotlight On The Troubles: A Secret History.
It will also include a selection of pieces by local writers and music that explores/depicts conflict and its effects more generally. And it will conclude a new BBC music commission from Neil Martin, Richard Hill, Mark Gordon and Charlie Graham that looks to hopes for a more peaceful future at home and around the world.
The concert will be meditative in tone and will reflect the human cost, dislocation and legacies of violent conflict. It will explore aspects of our recent past, but also the experiences of people in other times and places and how these have been represented in the work of composers, poets and writers.
Some of the readings that have been selected are about issues and experiences which some people may find upsetting. But they will be accompanied by other pieces that acknowledge the possibility of new relationships and renewal - and a time when ‘hope and history rhyme’.
The Ulster Orchestra will be conducted by David Brophy. Readings will be by well-known actors, and the concert will be presented by John Toal.
Tickets for this concert will be allocated on a first come, first served basis and will be restricted to two per applicant. To apply for tickets visit bbc.co.uk/tickets
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