Event

This event is part of Towner 100 Celebration on Saturday 27 May 2023. From 10.00am to 10.00pm join us to celebrate Towner’s 100th birthday! Throughout the day and into the evening, you’ll find workshops, performances, installations and DJs.

As part of our Towner 100 Celebration Day, the specially formed band South Coast Brass will perform Dr Liz Lane’s work Rhythm of Light for Towner’s 100th birthday. Before each performance, Dr Liz Lane will join the band to introduce the piece.

Rhythm of Light celebrates the life and work of Barbara Hepworth.

South Coast Brass will perform two movements from the celebrated piece, Landscape and Shadow cast by the sun, multiple times throughout the day. The movement titles are based on some of the sculptor's quotations.

Landscape is inspired by how memories of Hepworth’s childhood journeys across Yorkshire remained with her throughout her life. The music ebbs and flows with the hills and roads before slowing slightly to reach the crest of the hill, then returning to the constant patter of the engine.

Shadow cast by the sun is reflective of the sculptor creating on her own but not alone, much like the process of writing music, and a sense of poignant and focused isolation before sharing the work with others.

Performances take place in the plaza, just outside Towner. Please note that performance times are subject to change depending on weather conditions.

11.30am to 11.40am &

1pm to 1.10pm &

3pm to 3.10pm &

5pm to 5.10pm

South Coast Brass is a traditional brass band formed for today by players from across the south coast. The musicians play in other bands but have come together to experience this unique opportunity to perform the music of Liz Lane.

Liz Lane’s music has been broadcast on BBC Radio 3, BBC1 and ITV, and played in major venues throughout the UK and abroad; performers have included the Orchestra of Welsh National Opera, Bournemouth Symphony Chorus, Carducci Quartet, Cory Band, Foden’s Band, Manger Musikklag (Norway), and Austin Larsen (Baltimore Symphony Orchestra). She is Composer in Association with the Grimethorpe Colliery Band.

Her many diverse works range from Age Against the Machine – Grand Finale, a co-creative inter-generational vocal/dance project in London, Innovation 216 performed by 280 musicians under the wings of Concorde, to Surtaal Symphony for brass band and Bhangra.

Dr Lane is a Senior Lecturer at UWE Bristol, and Associate Lecturer with the Open University and Trinity Laban Conservatoire of Music and Dance. She is published by Composers Edition, Kirklees Music, Wright & Round and Bronsheim Music (Netherlands). Current commissions include What the Lark Saw for the Three Choirs Festival.

We have a budget available to make this event as accessible as possible – this can include interpretation services or other access needs we can meet to enable you to participate.

If you require access arrangements, please email programme@townereastbourne.org.uk two weeks before the event date so that we can book a service if needed.