Instrumentation

bfl.cl.bsn – tbn – vln.vla.vlc.db – video/tape track

Availability

Score on special sale, parts for hire, video available from the publisher

Programme Notes

Sexton Blakes is a little piece about the late art forger, Tom Keating and about being a fraud. I think of him with fondness and scepticism, a genuine fake. He flooded the art market with fake works, producing potentially thousands of pastiche pieces, we don’t really know, he wasn’t all that honest. This wasn’t an exercise of profit but deception. Tom described it as socialist art, designed to devalue inflated pieces and defraud their owners, we don’t really know, he wasn’t all that honest. Tom was an expert in material, he knew how to make a young canvas from a pub look like it were old and from an auction house - he also knew how to make that canvas reveal itself a few years later, we don’t really know, he wasn’t all that honest. The piece takes the form of, and is made from, an/many interview/s

Oliver Leith

Sexton Blakes

LSO St Luke's (London, United Kingdom)

LSO Chamber Ensemble/Jon Hargreaves