Glennie/Festival Academy/Thomson - review

Town Hall, CheltenhamPremieres are dotted through the Cheltenham festival programme as usual this year, but the first performance of Joseph Phibbs's Bar Veloce promised something more spectacular – a concerto for percussionist and ensemble, written personally for Evelyn Glennie. Glennie introduced it with the festival's own Academy, a mix of young instrumentalists and seasoned professionals.The 12 episodes of Phibbs's piece are named after cocktails, with each section signalled by the sound of...

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