The Cloud - World Premiere and album Launch
Thu, 17 Oct
|Clock Tower at King's Cross St Pancras
Join the Sonnen Quartet, Baritone Jonathan Eyers and myself at this wonderful venue to premiere, celebrate and launch a new album with The Cloud for Baritone and String Quartet.
Time & Location
17 Oct 2024, 20:00 – 22:00
Clock Tower at King's Cross St Pancras, London N1C 4AX, UK
Guests
About the event
The Cloud sets an original text, by English writer Aubrey Lavender, that seeks to highlight contemporary social political subjects. The story is based in two overlapping stories that alternates back and forth between them, focusing on technological revolution with echos of other broader subjects. One of the stories is about a lonely elderly right wing man. He tries to remove some protesters from his oil-executive son's event and inadvertently gets glued to the stage. Loving the attention he has got from his “protest”, he decides to join the Just Stop Oil movement. The other story is about a prince preparing for his coronation. When he learns of the new face tracking revolutionary technology, introduced by the police in order to track offenders in the coronation, the prince (unhappy) tries to put a stop to it. The prince is pressured to not to interfere and concedes. Halfway through the story, a…