2024/2025 Season
Memorials. Tributes. Music.
For most of us, music is inextricablytied up with memory.
Wednesday 27th September, 7.30 pm
London, Royal Festival Hall
Saturday 18th January, 7.30 pm
London, Royal Festival Hall
Saturday 5th April, 7.30 pm
London, Royal Festival Hall
LPO’s Artistic Director on our new 2024/25 season:
MOMENTS REMEMBERED
‘Certain events and people that used to be celabrated are now remembered very differently, and vice versa’ says Elena Dubinets, the LPO’s Artistic Director. Yet, for most of us, music is inextricably tied up with memory. We’ve all experienced the flood of recollections and emotions that rushes in when a certain melody starts to play.
The 2024/25 season is punctuated with pieces that graple with these ideas. Some were conceived as memorials. ‘Each of us consists of multiple types of memories’ says Elena. ‘We epitomize our times, our countries, our families and our personal situations. What interests me is the crossroads of our feelings. And that’s the beauty of our art form: emotionally, it might inspire you to have very different reactions in any given moment...’ But one function of art is to help us ask questions. And in all its contradictory forms, memory - like music - is part of what makes us human.
