The City of London Festival this summer celebrates its 50th anniversary with the theme City of London – Trading Places with the World and performances from internationally acclaimed stars in historical locations in the Square Mile. During the five-week festival (24 June–27 July) visitors will be able to attend world première performances of music and dance including works by composer Tansy Davies for the Orchestra of the Age of Enlightenment and a landmark piece performed by English National Ballet in St Paul’s Cathedral. There will also be free family events and 300 free piano lessons on 50 Golden Street Pianos placed across the City.Composer Samuel Bordoli will produce live music sculptures at Tower Bridge and the Monument. Sir Colin Davis will conduct the London Symphony Orchestra in Berlioz’s Grande Messe des Morts in St Paul’s Cathedral (25–26 June), and guitarist John Williams will commemorate the Festival’s jubilee year with a recital similar to the one he gave at the first City of London Festival in 1962.
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