5. Festival Musica 1987
MIKE WESTBROOK ORCHESTRA / SINFONIETTA DE PICARDIE
"Mike Westbrook: London Bridge is Broken Down"
Strasbourg, France - Auditorium de France 3 Alsace
Wednesday, September 23, 1987 - 11 pm

Kate Westbrook, voice, tenor horn
Mike Westbrook, piano

THE MIKE WESTBROOK ORCHESTRA
Chris Biscoe, alto sax, soprano sax, baritone sax, alto clarinet
Graham Russell, trumpet, flugelhorn, piccolo trumpet
Peter Whyman, alto sax, soprano sax, clarinet
Paul Nieman, trombone, electronics
Brian Godding, electric guitar
Steve Cook, bass guitar
Tony Marsh, drums

LE SINFONIETTA DE PICARDIE leader Constantin Bobesco
Alexandre Myrat, conductor

01) Intro (3:42)
02) London Bridge is Broken Down (Music by Mike Westbrook/ Lyrics by Rene Arcos, Wilhelm Busch, Andree Chedid, Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, Bernard Lassahn, Siegfried Sassoon arr. by Kate Westbrook) (79:41)
03) Applause (2:21)
04) London Bridge is Broken Down (Music by Mike Westbrook/ Lyrics by Rene Arcos, Wilhelm Busch, Andree Chedid, Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, Bernard Lassahn, Siegfried Sassoon arr. by Kate Westbrook) (56:01)
05) Applause (4:18)

146' 05"

http://www.westbrookjazz.co.uk/londonbridge/

London Bridge is Broken Down
July 1st 2016 marks the centenary of the start of the Battle of the Somme.
The sixth and final movement of London Bridge is Broken Down, Picardie is a meditation on the horror of War, on the history of the region, on the devastation of the landscape, and its regeneration. Mike Westbrook�s score for a mixed jazz and classical ensemble combines orchestration and improvisation, and encompasses settings of French and English texts, selected and sung by Kate Westbrook. These include the work of poets Rene Arcos, Siegfried Sassoon, Andr�e Chedid, and an anonymous 12th Century Picard text.
A Composition for Voice, Jazz Orchestra & Chamber Orchestra

LONDON BRIDGE
WENCESLAS SQUARE
BERLIN WALL
VIENNA
PICARDIE

Texts by Rene Arcos, Wilhelm Busch, Andree Chedid, Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, Bernard Lassahn, Siegfried Sassoon, Kate Westbrook.
Music composed and arranged by Mike Westbrook
Texts written and selected by Kate Westbrook
Musical settings of texts by Mike Westbrook and Kate Westbrook
Music published by Metisse Music, Paris. email: contact@metisse-music.com

London Bridge Is Broken Down was commisioned by 'Le Temps du Jazz' (Festival International de Jazz d'Amiens) and premiered at La Maison de la Culture, Amiens on 26 May 1987. It was performed again on September 22nd at the MUSICA 87 festival in Strasbourg. The album was recorded for Virgin/Venture, produced by Fiachra Trench, at Studio Pathe Marconi EMI, Paris 7th - 10th December 1987 and released in 1988.
In 1990 the piece was performed with the Docklands Sinfonietta conducted by Rupert Bond, in London on 9th November at St. Anne's Church, Limehouse in the Docklands Jazz Festival, and in Zurich on 10th November at the Zurich Jazz Festival.

First broadcast by Radio France Alsace (RFALS) on September 23, 1987
Re-broadcasted on September 2, 2013

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