London Sinfonietta: Birtwistle & Maxwell Davies Secret Theatre & Eight Songs for a Mad King

Two amazing musical treats on the Sounthbank. Extra members can get best available tickets for £15Landmark works from two of the UK's most pioneering living composers are performed by London Sinfonietta as part of Ray Davies' Meltdown.Acknowledged now as musical icons, both Sir Peter Maxwell Davies and Harrison Birtwistle met as students in Manchester in the 1950s and went on to shake up the status quo.One of the most notorious musical works of the 1960s, Sir Peter Maxwell Davies' Eight Songs f...

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