MARLBOROUGH ONSCREEN EVENTS :: ‘Bernstein Centenary’ (12a) – at The Town Hall

The Royal Ballet celebrates The Centenary of Leonard Bernstein’s birth with an all-Bernstein programme from choreographers Wayne McGregor, Liam Scarlett and Christopher Wheeldon.

The programme includes two world premieres by Resident Choreographer Wayne McGregor and Artistic Associate Christopher Wheeldon, marking each artist’s first foray into Bernstein.  At the heart of the programme is the first revival of Artist in Residence Liam Scarlett’s The Age of Anxiety, created in 2014 to Bernstein’s soul-searching Second Symphony.  Both symphony and ballet are inspired by W.H. Auden’s masterful modernist poem, itself written in response to the atmosphere of disillusionment and uncertainty that followed the end of World War II.

Tickets are available on-line from marlboroughonscreen.events,

Sound Knowledge and The White Horse Bookshop

Tickets £15 in advance and £17.50 on door

Licensed bar