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The Hallé - Angélique Kidjo Sings Ifé Songs

Name: The Hallé - Angélique Kidjo Sings Ifé Songs
Start: 2025-02-13T19:30:00
Location: The Bridgewater Hall

The Bridgewater Hall

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Angélique Kidjo – singer-songwriter, Grammy Award winner, activist – has a star-studded career spanning five decades. Tonight, she steps onto The Bridgewater Hall stage alongside Robert Ames, a skilled interpretor of Glass’s work and ‘a super connector in modern music ’(The Guardian), to perform the UK premiere of Ifé Songs – written especially for her. The composer said of the work: ‘Angélique, together we have built a bridge that no one has wal...

Program

Philip Glass - Ifé Songs

Philip Glass - Days and Nights in Rocinha

Philip Glass - Symphony No.11

Participants

Angélique Kidjo

Vocals

Robert Ames

Conductor

The Bridgewater Hall

Producer

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