Gavin Bryars Ensemble and Jess Walker

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***Recipient of the 2024 Ivor Novello Innovation award, Gavin Bryars is one of the most influential composers of our age. For After the Rain he reunites with singer Jess Walker and the Gavin Bryars Ensemble for his hypnotic arrangements of iconic songs by Tom Waits, Leonard Cohen, Neil Young and Kurt Weill.*** \_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_ Gavin Bryars, recipient of the 2024 Ivors Innovation Award, is one of the most influential composers of our age. For *After the Rain* he reunites with the remarkable singer Jess Walker to build on their Tom Waits collaboration, *Mercy and Grand*, which Tom Waits himself referred to as giving his songs ‘an elegant night on the town.’ This new programme with the Gavin Bryars Ensemble includes his hypnotic arrangements of iconic numbers by Waits, Leonard Cohen, Kurt Weill and Neil Young. Scored for strings, sax, electric guitar, piano and voice, the arrangements include the world premiere of Neil Young’s *Only Love Can Break Your Heart*. ***Duration and interval TBC.***