Roundhouse launches expanded season to showcase emerging young talent
“The season will showcase vital new work including spoken word, immersive gig-theatre, a cabaret, live podcasts, club nights and album launches. Work premiering at Roundhouse Rising includes Eliezer Gore’s Last Orders, which follows a viral YouTuber accused of profiting off content about London’s poorest residents, Eleanor Cousins Brown’s Brickwork, a night of poetry celebrating UK estates and Above the Fray, a night of cutting-edge contemporary chamber music from the Jasmine Quartet. More than simply a stage, Roundhouse Rising is the ultimate launchpad for the next generation of creatives.”
A welcome return to live music, courtesy of Evanston Chamber Festival
“Escobar, a gifted Filipino-American cellist, was a vibrant soloist in four selections from Seven Tunes Heard in China by Bright Sheng. He is an expressive musician, capable of etching the air with eerie, hushed melodies. But in the final ‘Tibetan Dance’ he played with the obsessive drive of a possessed soul.”