Events marking International Women’s Day (IWD) on Saturday 8 March include a marathon organ recital on a portable instrument in London Bridge station. Beginning at 9am and ending at 6pm, a wide range of repertoire will be performed by members of the Society of Women Organists (SWO).
BBC Radio 3 celebrates IWD through concerts and broadcasts featuring music by Olga Neuwirth, Sofia Gubaidulina and Ethel Smyth.
The UK premiere of Neuwirth’s orchestral work Dreydl will be broadcast live from Bridgewater Hall in Manchester. Written in 2021, the 11-minute work draws on the imagery of a dreydl, or spinning top, still played with by children at the festival of Hanukkah, and which for Neuwirth has become ‘a symbol of life’. It will be performed in a programme that also includes Gubaidulina’s The Light of the End, a 2003 dramatic work conveying conflict between different orchestral instruments. The works will be performed by the BBC Philharmonic under its Principal Guest Conductor Anja Bihlmaier.
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