Orquestra Simfònica de Barcelona i Nacional de Catalunya
Conductor and arranger - Evan Ziporyn
Since 25 May the Design Museum has been hosting the exhibition David Bowie Is, dedicated to one of the most representative figures of 20th-century music: David Bowie. As part of the activities organized in connection with this exhibition, on 13 July the Barcelona Symphony and Catalonia National Orchestra will be performing the concert Bowie Symphonic, in which it will reinterpret songs from Blackstar, the last disc by one of the essential voices of 20th-century music.
Conductor and arranger Evan Zyporin revisits Bowie’s last album and creates symphonic versions of songs like Lazarus, Blackstar and Girl Loves Me, in a concert for cello and orchestra that takes advantage of the similarity between the tone colour of the cello and that of the human voice. Zyporin is an American composer of post-minimalist music but he has obvious connections with classical music, the avant-garde, world music and even jazz.
The concert, first performed last March at the Kresge Auditorium in Massachusetts (USA), will be given by the Barcelona Symphony and Catalonia National Orchestra together with guest soloist Maya Beiser, an American cellist born in Israel who has revolutionized cello music with an eclectic, avant-garde repertoire, with which she has managed to unexpectedly broaden her instrument’s range of possibilities.
