Sean Noonan The Drummer Of Tedworth (world Premiere) at Milton Court Concert Hall

The Drummer of Tedworth is the first full-length orchestral work ever written for a speaking drummer at the drum kit — a performer who sings, narrates, and improvises from behind the kit while fronting a symphony orchestra. An acting tour-de-force. Watch the trailer here.This boundary-breaking double album, recorded with the London Symphony Orchestra marks Sean Noonan’s orchestral debut, and stands as possibly the most extensive collaboration between an American artist and the LSO since Frank Zappa’s legendary recordings in the 1980s.

Fusing the scale of rock opera, the intensity of punk-jazz, and the surreal logic of the Theatre of the Absurd. The Drummer of Tedworth reimagines the concerto form as a metaphysical monodrama for voice, drums, and orchestra — a genre-defying journey into existential chaos.At the center is Olis, a disembodied soul on a metaphysical journey in search of pnoom — a nonsense word for enlightenment beyond flesh....

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The Drummer of Tedworth is the first full-length orchestral work ever written for a speaking drummer at the drum kit — a performer who sings, narrates, and improvises from behind the kit while fronting a symphony orchestra. An acting tour-de-force. Watch the trailer here.This boundary-breaking double album, recorded with the London Symphony Orchestra marks Sean Noonan’s orchestral debut, and stands as possibly the most extensive collaboration between an American artist and the LSO since Frank Zappa’s legendary recordings in the 1980s.

Fusing the scale of rock opera, the intensity of punk-jazz, and the surreal logic of the Theatre of the Absurd. The Drummer of Tedworth reimagines the concerto form as a metaphysical monodrama for voice, drums, and orchestra — a genre-defying journey into existential chaos.At the center is Olis, a disembodied soul on a metaphysical journey in search of pnoom — a nonsense word for enlightenment beyond flesh.

Inspired by the 17th-century haunting chronicled in Joseph Glanvill’s Seducismus Triumphatus, Olis’s quest takes him through cosmic mist, Martian pregnancies, trickster spirits, and sacred underpants — culminating in a mind-hijacking prank on Benjamin Franklin during one of his “air baths.”

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