In Tune with the RA: performances from the Royal College of Music
Inspired by the RA Collection
Friday 7 December 2018 7 - 8pm
The Benjamin West Lecture Theatre, Burlington Gardens, Royal Academy of Arts
£10, £6 concessions
Highlights from the RA Collection
To celebrate our 250th anniversary, join us for a very special evening of musical premieres, inspired by the RA Collection and composed and performed by Royal College of Music musicians.
For this performance, musicians from the Royal College of Music have selected work from the RACollection as inspiration for an evening concert that spans 250 years of the RA's history.
Composers and the artworks they have responded to:
Angela Luque: Angelica Kauffman RA, Elements of Art
Yin Lu: John Constable RA Landscape Study, Cottage and Rainbow.
Connor D'Netto: Jacopo Tintoretto, Study of Michelangelo's Samson and the Philistines.
Tymon Zgorzelski: Bob and Roberta Smith RA, Art is Your Human Right.
Darren Sng: John Constable RA, Landscape Study: Cottage and Rainbow
Carla G Ginjaume: Michelangelo, Taddei Tondo
António Breitenfeld Sá-Dantas: Theme of 'genius' in the Collection
Zacharias Wolfe: William Pink, Smugglerius
Reza Kholosi: Sir Thomas Lawrence RA, Satan Summoning his Legions
Tom Foster: John Constable RA, A Boat Passing a Lock
Matthew Lomax: John Constable RA, Seascape Study: Boat and Storm Sky
Thomas van Dun: Sir Benjamin West RA, Thetis bringing the Armour to Achilles
Kindly supported by Dasha Shenkman.
£10, £6 concessions
Highlights from the RA Collection
Image gallery
Thetis bringing the Armour to Achilles, 1805
Satan summoning his Legions, 1796-1797
The Virgin and Child with the Infant St John, c.1504-05
Colouring, 1778-80
Landscape Study: Cottage and Rainbow, 12 July 1829
Seascape Study: Boat and Stormy Sky (detail), ca. 1824-1828
© Royal Academy of Arts, London; Photographer: John Hammond
Smugglerius, ca. 1834
A Boat Passing a Lock, 1826
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