The Goldfield Ensemble weave their trademark magic of storytelling, simple shadow-play images and the finest chamber music to bring you Three Stories About Home.
We tell the stories of travelling families, of children who discover adventures in unknown places, of young people who start their lives again with new friends in foreign lands. Told with the greatest empathy, sensitivity and respect, Three Stories About Home opens up a world of wonder and curiosity about the different type of places that children might call home today.
Written and narrated by Kate Romano
Music for string quartet performed by The Goldfield Ensemble

This day-long event brings together live music, story-telling and art in order to show how simple, cost-effective ideas can be realized and turned into powerful, evocative and inspirational pieces of touring theatre. The day explores artistic / aesthetic issues in cross-arts productions, collaborative working (as a production team), and opens up fresh ideas, perspective and insights into what a creative career in the arts and music might look like.

Curated and presented by Kate Romano and string players from Kings High School, Musical Storytelling draws on Goldfield Productions experiences in creating pop-up touring productions, cross-cultural and multi-arts events.

Sadie Harrison – Gallery Room 1 for solo violin 2013

Return from Lysøen– 25/10/12

Robin Holloway – String Trio 2014

Nicola LeFanu – Songs without words (cl + string trio) 2005

Tristan Murail – Les Ruines Circulaire (cl + vln) 2006

Sadie Harrison – Gallery Room 1 for solo violin 2013

Elizabeth Maconchy – Clarinet Quintet 1963

– I N T E R V A L –

Sadie Harrison   – Gallery Room 1 for solo violin 2013 – Mint Tea in an Empty Medina

Elizabeth Maconchy – String quartet no. 3 1938

Sadie Harrison – Gallery Room 1 for solo violin 2013 – It rubs off

Salvatore Sciarrino – Let me die before I wake (solo cl) 1947

Nicola LeFanu – Invisible Places (cl quintet) 1986

‘At some point,’ says author Eric Weiner, speaking on the 1972 book Invisible Cities by Italo Calvino, ‘you realize that Calvino is not talking about cities at all, not in the way we normally think of the word. Calvino’s cities—like all cities, really—are constructed not of steel and concrete but of ideas. Each city represents a thought experiment.’ This programme celebrates Nicola LeFanu’s 70^th birthday with music inspired by her own Calvino-work Invisible Places and ‘thought experiments’ from 20^th and 21^st century composers, each taking the listener into worlds where fantasy expresses reality or, like Calvino, where discontinuous ideas make up a continuous narrative. The programme includes repertoire by LeFanu’s mother Elizabeth Maconchy and her former pupil Sadie Harrison. Harrison’s exquisite instrumental miniatures (Gallery Room 1 for solo violin) can be placed in any structural order, some of them mirroring ancient worlds and natural phenomena and others taking their starting point in the paintings of Brian Graham and Peter Sheppard Skærved, expressing visual and textural ideas in sound.

Sadie Harrison                                      Gallery Room 1 for solo violin 2013 (2’)

Robin Holloway                                    String Trio 2014 (7′)

Nicola LeFanu                                       Songs without words (cl + string trio) 2014 (9’)

Sadie Harrison                                      Gallery Room 1 for solo violin 2013 (2’)

Tristan Murail                                       Les Ruines Circulaire (cl + vln) 2006 (6’)

Elizabeth Maconchy                             Clarinet Quintet 1963 (13′)

– I N T E R V A L –

Sadie Harrison                                    Gallery Room 1 for solo violin 2013 (2’)

Elizabeth Maconchy                          String quartet no. 3 1958 (13’)

Sadie Harrison                                   Gallery Room 1 for solo violin 2013 (2’)

Salvatore Sciarrino                            Let me die before I wake (solo cl) 1947 (9’)

Nicola LeFanu                                    Invisible Places (cl quintet) 1986 (18′)