Summarize this content to 2000 words in 6 paragraphs in Arabic Unlock the Editor\u2019s Digest for freeRoula Khalaf, Editor of the FT, selects her favourite stories in this weekly newsletter.In 2015, the double bassist Chi-chi Nwanoku founded Chineke!, Europe\u2019s first majority Black and minority ethnic orchestra. She thought it might only last one concert, but a decade later Chineke! is still here and celebrating its 10th anniversary.In the early days there were people who argued that an orchestra limited to players from ethnic minorities was not the way to achieve diversity, but Nwanoku\u2019s answer to that was clear: \u201cWe have waited 400 years! There was no sign of anything happening.\u201d Now Chineke! is a resident orchestra at the Southbank Centre and has played at the BBC Proms, the Lucerne Festival and Lincoln Center, New York, to name but three.\u00a0One of the orchestra\u2019s proudest aims is that it not only furthers the careers of young musicians, but also promotes Black composers, past, present and future. Over 10 years almost every concert has widened the repertoire by performing a previously neglected composer or newly commissioned work.All this was on show at this anniversary concert at the Queen Elizabeth Hall, where the ensemble debuted in 2015. As Chineke! is not a permanent orchestra, it is difficult to keep the standard of playing consistent from one concert to the next. This was not one of the best, but that did not stop celebratory ovations along the way.In advance, the main attraction had looked to be a performance of the 2020 suite Song of the Prophets: A Requiem for the Climate, commissioned for the orchestra. Each of the four movements was written by a different composer \u2014 Ayanna Witter-Johnson, Daniel Kidane, Shirley J Thompson and Roderick Williams \u2014 but it seems the composers were given a five-minute limit and their contributions, though nicely turned, did not add up to much.\u00a0The other works on the programme, all recent, were more entertaining. Julian Joseph, interviewed on stage, told how Nwanoku had asked him to write something \u201cjazzy\u201d for Chineke!. The result was the foot-tapping Carry That Sound, which throws in a dash of Hollywood schmaltz and a variety of blues \u2014 good fun, though it ended too soon.It is easy to see why Roderick Williams was inspired by the vivid, rhythmical poems of Chris Beckett, which draw on the poet\u2019s childhood in Ethiopia. Williams\u2019s cheery and sunburnt settings \u2014 3 Songs from Ethiopia Boy \u2014 were pregnant with atmosphere. As a noted baritone, he sang them himself, though it was a shame the orchestra sometimes covered the words.In a more serious vein, Kidane\u2019s Dream Song set a text that weaves in and out of Martin Luther King Jr\u2019s historic \u201cI have a dream\u201d speech to edgy music. Alongside, James B Wilson\u2019s Free-man paid tribute to the Black community leaders of the Bristol bus boycott of 1963, which was coincidentally settled on the day that King was making his speech in Washington. Its sustained elegy, an oasis of deep feeling, was the outstanding music of the evening.\u2605\u2605\u2605\u2606\u2606southbankcentre.co.uk<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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