Ryan Latimer's Pound of Cure has been nominated for an Ivor Novello Award in the Best Large Ensemble Composition category. Winners will be announced at The Ivors Classical Awards, judged and presented by the Ivors Academy, on 12th November at the BFI Southbank.
A single-movement work for string ensemble, Pound of Cure draws its inspiration from the private drawings of the visionary architect, Lina Bo Bardi. Diverse in style, materials, scale and subject matter, with many images often coexisting on the same page, Bo Bardi’s lively collection of sketches weave together complex yet playful narratives and interrelationships. Images range from precise technical drawings to romantic watercolours, sporting events, abstract patterns and gestural doodles, surreal social gatherings, cartoons, as well as concepts for food carts, costumes and baroque churches. She depicts joy and humanity with both childlike whimsy and exacting structural calculation. Pound of Cure captures the visceral, energising nature of Bo Bardi’s drawings, their clarity of forms, textures and colours, as well as their beguiling incongruencies.
Latimer will be on BBC Radio 3 In Tune on Tuesday 15 October as part of the nominee shortlists announcements.