Photo: James Screaton
Photo: Carole Bent
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Surtaal Symphony is........exciting new music for Bhangra band, brass band and soprano voice - engaging and upbeat with huge energy and excitement. Created by composer Liz Lane and RSVP Bhangra, Surtaal Symphony is a cross-cultural collaboration, blending and inter-weaving Western and Punjabi musical traditions.
Surtaal projects and collaborations...Check out our pages for some Surtaal projects to date including the upcoming touring production Surtaal Showcase. Our most recent Surtaal Celebrates joined forces with the Grimethorpe Colliery Band and Belinda Evans live! + Carducci String Quartet and other artists online. And our very first ventures partnered with Lydbrook Band - Surtaal Suite No. 1 and Surtaal Unites, featuring an exciting co-created percussion and dhol break. We look forward to sharing more with you!
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Surtaal Symphony originates from....
....two important words in the Bhangra tradition:
Sur = melody, Taal = rhythm
Liz and the RSVP team have added another two Bhangra ideas to represent the traditional four movement symphonic form:
Raasar = expression/emotion, Bol = lyric
The work weaves together Punjabi stories such as Heer Ranjha, a love story about forbidden love and tragic death, with similar tales from European culture, such as Romeo and Juliet, perhaps showing that our traditions have more in common than we might think….
Sur = melody, Taal = rhythm
Liz and the RSVP team have added another two Bhangra ideas to represent the traditional four movement symphonic form:
Raasar = expression/emotion, Bol = lyric
The work weaves together Punjabi stories such as Heer Ranjha, a love story about forbidden love and tragic death, with similar tales from European culture, such as Romeo and Juliet, perhaps showing that our traditions have more in common than we might think….
THE ARTISTS
"The power of the brass band, the driving rhythms of Bhangra and a soaring coloratura soprano will combine to excite, delight and move our audiences in ways they haven’t before considered".
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07825 220 210
0117 904 3232 |
