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Ada Milea & Alex Balanescu:
The Island
Radical, humourous and transporting
music from the UK and Romania
Thursday 6th Apri 2006
Wesley Memorial Church, 7.30pm
£13.50 (£9)
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The Island
update: Since their tour of the south east of England, Ada
and Alex returned to Romania in May for a 5 date tour to Sibiu,
Timisoara, Bistrita, Cluj and Bucharest supported by The British
Council. Ada and Alex continue to perform The Island and are
developing it further. They are also working on a completely
new project together - watch this space for further information.
In 2006 OCM teamed up with South Hill Park Arts Centre in
Bracknell and the iF Festival, London to co-commission Alexander
Balanescu to work with an artist he has admired for a long
time, Ada Milea from Romania. Together they created The Island,
an hour-long song cycle inspired by Robinsoe Crusoe’s
story retold with an improbable twist by Romanian surrealist
poet Gellu Naum. The result is a moving and highly existential
parable. “a wild, rumbustious and often extremely amusing
land inhabited by a mermaid prostitute, grandparents and a
pirate with wooden legs, in which Balanescu’s soft,
dead-pan voice of Crusoe, contrasts with the extraordinary
vocal gymnastics of Milea” Paul Medley, Oxford Times.
In Romania she is widely loved as a voice of the young generation
and this was Ada Milea’s first opportunity to perform
in the UK, supported by Visiting Arts. The commission was
supported by the PRS Foundation.
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