Research 2

We were given a little insight into who will be playing at the Alight Twilight event, which could give us a bit of help in our idea generation and development, as we will know roughly what audio could be present. I must stress however, this is not set in stone, and also, weren't meant to be given this from the client, we just got a sneaky look at it with our tutor!
So without further ado, here are a few i listed:


Concord Youth Music Ceremonial Fanfare. This is 6 fanfare trumpets with the Sheffield Cathedral Choir. There is no info about a song, but i'm sure with 'fanfare' trumpets it will be pretty up-beat.
Sheffield Music Service Orchestra. 50 young players performing 'Everyone Sang', which is a song/poem about war.
Heavyweight Champion of the World. A modern music and dance retelling of Romeo and Juliet, possibly set in Sheffield (I think). Sounds pretty interesting!


Cutlery Concerto. Only Info given is that is it by Sheffield Academy Students. First impression is music being played with cutlery? Strange objects? What popped into my head, and others too, was the Blue Man Group. Check out the awesome video below of the Blue Man Group playing a cover of 'Baba O'Reilly' by the Who (one of my favourite songs!) This could give an idea of the theme of the Cutlery Concerto. Cutlery could be relevant to the Steelworks of Sheffield?

Also on the list was Vocal Work. Pop songs made prominent by local bands.


BeVox by Timothy Allen. There was no more info on this, but it is one I think will go ahead for definite, as his name has been mentioned since the introduction to this brief. Ill look more into this guy I think.


Our Tutor also mentioned the Glen Miller Band to look at as reference. They are a big-band playing all forms of jazz and orchestral music. Here is a video below.

Another definite is the Twilight Finale, which will potentially consist of about 500+ performers (possibly all the performers throughout the night coming together) to perform a 15 minute piece which will be a world-wide premier of a commissioned piece. This could be something worth finding out more about, but again, nothing is set in stone just yet!


The performances are meant to be based around three words Alight have chosen to represent the festival which are 'Arise', 'Unite', 'Alight'. This is something I need to think about in my designs.