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IMR events autumn 2014
Institute of Musical Research events programme - autumn 2014 music.sas.ac.uk photo: Edward Baran
Welcome to the Institute of Musical Research. The institute is funded to promote research from all UK institutions of Higher Education, facilitate research networks and provide training for postgraduate students. It provides links to the wider musical community, encourages cross-disciplinary projects, and enhances research impact through public events. I look forward to welcoming you to the Institute of Musical Research. Paul Archbold
The Institute of Musical Research is one of ten research institutes forming the School of Advanced Study, University of London, which is funded by the Higher Education Funding Council for England.
Institute of Advanced Legal Studies Institute of Classical Studies Institute of Commonwealth Studies Institute of English Studies Institute of Historical Research Institute of Latin American Studies Institute of Modern Languages Research Institute of Musical Research Institute of Philosophy The Warburg Institute
Institute of Musical Research, School of Advanced Study, University of London, Senate House, Malet Street, London WC1E 7HU, UK 020 7664 4865 cover illustration: Louis Carmontelle, Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart with his father Leopold and his sister Marie Anne, watercolour and bodycolour, London, 1777 (version of a drawing of 1764) Š Trustees of the British Museum Mozart and the Power of Music: Memory, Myth & Magic, Chancellor’s Hall, 24th October see p.8 for further details
Funding organisations Higher Education Funding Council for England Higher Education Academy Aga Khan Trust for Culture Ernst von Siemens Music Foundation Hepner Foundation Hinrichsen Foundation Academic collaborators Anglia Ruskin University AHRC Research Centre for Musical Performance as Creative Practice Bath Spa University Birmingham Conservatoire British Forum for Ethnomusicology Brunel University Canterbury Christ Church University Cardiff University City University London De Montfort University Leicester Durham University Edinburgh Napier University Goldsmiths University of London Guildhall School of Music & Drama Institute of Education Keele University King’s College London Kingston University Leeds College of Music Liverpool Hope University London Metropolitan University Middlesex University National Association for Music in Higher Education Newcastle University Oxford Brookes University Prifysgol Bangor University Queen Mary University of London Queen’s University Belfast Royal Academy of Music
Royal Central School of Speech & Drama Royal College of Music Royal Conservatoire Scotland Royal Holloway, University of London Royal Northern College of Music Royal Musical Association School of Oriental and African Studies The Open University Trinity Laban Conservatoire of Music & Dance University of Aberdeen University of Birmingham University of Bristol University of Cambridge University of Edinburgh University of Glasgow University of Hertfordshire University of Huddersfield University of Hull University of Leeds University of Liverpool University of Manchester University of Nottingham University of Oxford University of Salford University of Sheffield University of Southampton University of Surrey University of Sussex University of Ulster University of York
With thanks to: BBC Symphony Orchestra Barbican Centre British Museum Huddersfield Contemporary Music Festival Arditti Quartet Ensemble Exposé
Elision Ensemble London Symphony Orchestra NMC Recordings Ltd Orchestra of the Age of Enlightenment South Bank Centre Third Ear Productions
CMPCP/IMR Performance/Research seminars Sponsored by the AHRC Research Centre for Musical Performance as Creative Practice and the Institute of Musical Research Open to the public, free of charge Monday 13 October, 17.00–18.30 Chancellor’s Hall, Senate House Stevie Wishart (CMPCP Visiting Fellow) Off the Page c.1700 / c.2014 Stevie Wishart is a composer and performer whose recent compositions and research projects include using realtime processing published as an annotated CD and DVD, The Sound of Gesture; a choral song cycle Out of this World, commissioned for the BBC 2011 Proms; and a large-scale Vespers for St Hildegard for voices and instruments, premiered in York Minster at the 2013 York Early Music Festival, and based upon her 2012 recording for Decca. Monday 20 October, 17.00–18.30 Chancellor’s Hall, Senate House Anna Scott (Orpheus Institute) Early Recordings and the De[con]struction of Brahmsian Performance Norms Anna Scott is interested in using the recordings of the Schumann-Brahms circle of pianists in order to challenge the underlying aesthetic ideologies behind both mainstream and period (HIP) performance approaches to Brahms’s late piano music. Anna is in her final year of the docArtes Doctoral Programme in the Musical Arts, based at The Orpheus Instituut in Ghent, Belgium. She is also a Doctoral Artistic Research Fellow at the Orpheus Research Centre in Music (ORCiM). Monday 15 December, 17.00–18.30 Chancellor’s Hall, Senate House Terence Charlston (RAM, RCM) Performing lost repertoires: seventeenth-century French keyboard music from the perspective of Mersenne’s 1636 clavichord Terence Charlston is a specialist performer on early keyboard instruments and widely acknowledged for his engaging and expressive performances. He has been described as one of Britain’s leading early keyboard players and his sympathetic command of original instruments has made him a frequent performer at collections of early keyboard instruments all over the world. Over the last 20 years in the profession, he has built an enviably broad career as a solo and chamber musician, choral and orchestral director, and teacher and academic researcher.
New Music Insight
in reflection and in performance Monday 27 October, 17.00–20.00 Chancellor’s Hall, Senate House Michael Finnissy (University of Southampton) The Sonata Michael Finnissy discusses the survival of the Sonata in the twenty-first century and his recent compositions in the form. Followed by a performance of Michael Finnissy’s Violin Sonata by its dedicates Darragh Morgan (violin) and Mary Dullea (piano) This concert marks the official release of Mississippi Hornpipes, Michael Finnissy’s music for violin and piano performed by Darragh Morgan and Mary Dullea on Métier Promoted by the IMR in association with Divine Art Recordings Group Monday 17 November, 17.00–20.00 Chancellor’s Hall, Senate House Tsung-Hsien Yang (Taipei National University of the Arts, Taiwan) Contemporary Music in Taiwan Born in 1952, Tsung-Hsien Yang is Taiwan’s most distinguished composer and is currently Professor of Music at Taipei National University of the Arts. His lecture will be followed by a concert with Richard Whalley (piano) Tsung-Hsien Yang Albumblätter from Sansui Shack Promoted by the IMR in association with the Confucius Institute and the Department of Music, University of Manchester Monday 24 November, 17.00–20.00 Chancellor’s Hall, Senate House Speakers to include: Mark Lubotsky, Dmitri Smirnov, Elena Firsova The relevance of Schnittke’s music A celebration of the music of Alfred Schnittke on the eightieth anniversary of his birth to be followed by a concert with Mark Lubotsky (violin), Olga Dovbusch-Lubotsky (cello), Dmitri Vinnik (piano) Alfred Schnittke Cello Sonata no. 2 Alfred Schnittke Violin Sonata no. 2 Alfred Schnittke Piano Trio Promoted by the IMR in association with the Centre for Russian Music, Goldsmiths Monday 8 December, 17.00–20.00 Chancellor’s Hall, Senate House Robin Holloway (Emeritus Professor of Music, University of Cambridge) Robin Holloway in conversation with Paul Archbold Robin Hollway discusses his music to be followed by a concert with Okeanos: Jinny Shaw (oboe), Kate Romano (clarinet), Sally Pryce (harp), Ruth Ehrlich (violin), Deborah White (violin), Bridget Carey (viola), Sophie Harris (cello) Robin Holloway Summer Music Concertino No.5 op. 74 (1991) Robin Holloway Serenade in Db op. 99 (2004) Promoted by the IMR in association with Guildhall School of Music & Drama
Directions in Musical Research A series of seminars exploring new directions in musical research Open to the public, free of charge Monday 3 November, 17.00–18.30 Room G35, Senate House Margaret Bent (Emeritus Fellow, All Souls College, University of Oxford) Who wrote Ockeghem’s Requiem? Margaret Bent’s research centres on English, French and Italian music of the fourteenth to sixteenth centuries. Editions (some co-authored) include the Old Hall manuscript, English masses, and the works of Dunstaple and Ciconia. She also edited Rossini’s Il Turco in Italia for the Fondazione Rossini, 1998. She co-directs the Digital Image Archive of Medieval Music, serves on many editorial boards of journals, publication series, and of the Einaudi Enciclopedia della Musica, and has contributed numerous articles to the New Grove Dictionary of Music and Musicians. Her most recent major publication, Bologna Q15: The Making and Remaking of a Musical Manuscript: Introductory Study and Facsimile Edition (LIM, Lucca, 2008) was awarded the Palisca prize of the American Musicological Society. Monday 10 November, 17.00–18.30 Chancellor’s Hall, Senate House Malcolm Gillies (Professor Emeritus, London Metropolitan University) Questions in Bartók Biography A musician and linguist by education, Malcolm Gillies has published a dozen books and over 100 major articles, chapters and reviews. His Self-Portrait of Percy Grainger (with David Pear and Mark Carroll) gained an award for scholarly excellence from the American Society for Composers, Authors and Publishers in 2007. Since 1997 he has been editor of the Oxford University Press series Studies in Musical Genesis, Structure and Interpretation. In 2011 he curated the Bartók: Infernal Dance concert series of the Philharmonia Orchestra, London. Monday 1 December, 17.00–18.30 Room G35, Senate House Nicholas Cook (University of Cambridge) Music, identity, and the clever boy from Croydon A musicologist and theorist, Nicholas Cook holds separate degrees in music and in history/ art history. His articles have appeared in leading British and American journals, and cover topics from aesthetics and analysis to psychology and popular culture. Cook’s current work is turning towards social and intercultural perspectives on music, and in 2014 he took up a British Academy Wolfson Research Professorship to work on a three-year project entitled Musical Encounters: Studies in Relational Musicology, the principal output of which will be a monograph of the same name. Other book projects currently in planning address musical creativity and digital multimedia.
Research Training For full details of the Institute of Musical Research’s Research Training programme, please visit: music.sas.ac.uk Tuesday 7 October Guildhall School of Music & Drama Open Strings - Open Minds: Historical String Performance in the Eighteenth and Nineteenth Centuries Speakers to include: George Kennaway (Hull University), Claire Holden (Cardiff University/ Orchestra of the Age of Enlightenment), Christopher Suckling (Gabrieli Consort/GSMD), Jacqueline Ross (GSMD) To include a round table discussion on historical bow making, chaired by John Irving (IMR/ Trinity Laban Conservatoire of Music and Dance) For further details please visit: music.sas.ac.uk Promoted by the Guildhall School of Music & Drama in partnership with IMR Monday 17 November, 10:00-16:00 Room 102, Senate House Editing music: for composers and musicologists Speakers to include: Elaine Gould (Senior New Music Editor, Faber Music), Richard Bernas (conductor), Barry Cooper (Manchester) For further details please visit: music.sas.ac.uk Promoted by the IMR in association with the London Arts and Humanities Partnership Monday 1 December 10:00-16:00 Room G35, Senate House Getting published: articles, books, journalism and broadcasting Speakers to include: Vicki Cooper (Senior Commissioning Editor, Music & Theatre, Cambridge University Press) Laura Tunbridge (Editor, Journal of the Royal Musical Association) Robert Worby (Composer and BBC Radio 3 Presenter) For further details please visit: music.sas.ac.uk Promoted by the IMR in association with the London Arts and Humanities Partnership
Research Training Reading Group: Classic Texts in Music and Culture
A reading group dedicated to the study of classic text in music and culture, led by Prof. Anahid Kassabian (Liverpool) For further details please contact a.kassabian@liv.ac.uk NAMHE travel grants Students of UK Higher Education Institutions may apply for a grant to assist with the cost of travel to participate in a Research Training event organised by the IMR. Applications will be considered by a panel representing IMR and NAMHE. Please apply in advance to music@sas.ac.uk This funding has been made available by the National Association for Music in Higher Education
Conferences and Symposia Tuesday 9 - Friday 12 September Faculty of Music, University of Oxford Perspectives on Musical Improvisation II Speakers to include: Daniel Fischlin (University of Guelph), Joanna MacGregor (RAM), Laudan Nooshin (City University London), Gary Peters (York St John University), Eric Porter (University of California, Santa Cruz), Jason Stanyek (University of Oxford) Geraint Wiggins (Queen Mary, University of London) Delegate fee payable For further details please visit: www.music.ox.ac.uk/pomi/welcome.html Promoted by the University of Oxford in association with the Institute of Musical Research, sempre, British Forum for Ethnomusicology and the Society for Music Analysis Wednesday 8 October Room G22/26, Senate House, University of London Music and Capitalism in historical and cross-cultural perspective Delegate fee payable For further details please visit: music.sas.ac.uk Thursday 9 - Friday 10 October Chancellor’s Hall, Senate House, University of London Johannes Tinctoris and Music Theory in the Late Middle Ages and Early Renaissance Delegate fee payable For further details please visit: music.sas.ac.uk Saturday 11 October 10:30 Fountain Room, Barbican Centre, Silk Street, London Nielsen Study Day Admission free to ticket-holders for any BBC SO Nielsen concert: For programme details see inside back cover For details of the BBC SO Nielsen festival and ticket prices please visit: barbican.org.uk Barbican Box Office 020 7638 8891 Friday 24 October Chancellor’s Hall, Senate House, University of London Mozart and the Power of Music: Memory, Myth & Magic Musicologists, scientists, medical professionals and performers will debate the questions: how does performing and listening to music affect the brain? Does it increase your capacity to retain information? Is there a ‘Mozart effect’? Does music have the power to heal? Speakers to include: Jessica Grahn, Jane Ginsborg, Stephen Johnson, Nigel Osborne, Michael Trimble and Kirsteen Davidson-Kelly Performers: Ian Brown piano, James Gilchrist tenor, Anna Tilbrook piano Delegate fee payable For further details please visit: www.themusicalbrain.org Promoted by The Musical Brain in partnership with the Institute of Musical Research
Saturday 1 November, 10:00 - 17:30 Chancellor’s Hall, Senate House, University of London Latin American Music Seminar For further details please visit: music.sas.ac.uk Promoted by the Institute of Latin American Studies and the Institute of Musical Research Saturday 15 - Sunday 23 November Senate House, University of London, and several venues Being Human: A Festival of the Humanities For further details please visit: www.sas.ac.uk Wednesday 19 November, 10:00-18:00 Chancellor’s Hall, Senate House, University of London Re-thinking analysis and music performance Delegate fee payable For further details please visit: music.sas.ac.uk Promoted by the Institute of Musical Research in association with the University of Oxford Thursday 20 November Milton Court, Silk Street, Barbican, London 10:00- 13:00 Re-writing the past In celebration of the sixtieth birthday of John Woolrich, the study day focuses on Woolrich’s compositional models: the operas of Monteverdi and the songs of Purcell, with papers on the music, poetry and visual art of the seventeenth century. Admission free to the study day For further details please visit: music.sas.ac.uk Promoted by the Institute of Musical Research in partnership with Britten Sinfonia as part of Being Human: A Festival of the Humanities 18:15 John Woolrich at 60: pre-concert event The young musicians of Britten Sinfonia Academy take to the stage in this pre-concert event featuring pieces by John Woolrich alongside a discussion with the composer. (admission free to concert ticket holders) 19:30 John Woolrich at 60 Britten Sinfonia celebrates the sixtieth birthday of John Woolrich Sophie Bevan soprano, Clare Finnimore viola, Thomas Gould violin, Duncan Ward conductor* Purcell arr. John Woolrich Three Songs Wolf arr. John Woolrich Italian Songs John Woolrich Ulysses Awakes Stravinsky Eight Instrumental Miniatures* Mozart Per pieta, non ricercate Stravinsky Dumbarton Oaks* John Woolrich Violin Concerto (London premiere)* For details of the Britten Sinfonia concert and ticket prices please visit: barbican.org.uk Barbican Box Office 020 7638 8891
New Music Insight A new resource for the academic community Research documentaries, performances and lectures devoted to new music music.sas.ac.uk/newmusicinsight Christian Wolff: photo David Lefeber
Christian Wolff: ‘Experimental Music’ A lecture by Christian Wolff, given in Chancellor’s Hall, University of London in May 2014 Christian Wolff in conversation with Richard Bernas Christian Wolff discusses his work and his collaborations with John Cage, Merce Cunningham, and David Tudor Brian Ferneyhough: ‘Electric Chair Music’ A film by Colin Still, Neil Heyde & Paul Archbold examining Ferneyhough’s Time and Motion Study II. The documentary is followed by a performance of the work by Neil Heyde (cello) and Paul Archbold (electronics) Film supported by Kingston University, RAM, IMR, Hinrichsen Foundation Sir Peter Maxwell Davies, Master of the Queen’s Music Changing Face of ‘New’ Music Sir Peter Maxwell Davies re-evaluates Anton Webern’s lecture The Path to the New Music with perceptive insights into the contemporary cultural world Lecture supported by the John Coffin Memorial Fund Poetry, Music, Drama: the creation of contemporary opera Sir Harrison Birtwistle & David Harsent in conversation with Fiona Sampson ‘Shadows and Mirrors: Birtwistle in the New Millenium’ by Jonathan Cross Talks by John Casken, Michael Symmons Roberts, Robert Saxton and Andrew Watts, chaired by Paul Archbold & Fiona Sampson Supported by the IMR, IES, John Coffin Memorial Fund, Hepner Foundation and the Higher Education Academy
Documentaries and performances John Casken at 65 A conversation with John Casken in celebration of his 65th birthday. The film considers his works Orion over Farne, Concerto for Orchestra, Violin Concerto and the new oboe concerto Apollinaire’s Bird Brian Ferneyhough at 70 Three conversations filmed as part of Brian Ferneyhough’s residency in the UK as S T Lee Visiting Fellow at the School of Advanced Study, University of London Brian Ferneyhough in conversation with Colin Blakemore Brian Ferneyhough in conversation with Robert Worby Brian Ferneyhough in conversation with Christopher Redgate Arditti Quartet perform Jonathan Harvey String Quartet no. 2 Arditti Quartet perform Jonathan Harvey String Quartet no. 4 Two films by Paul Archbold and Colin Still of performances of Harvey’s works given by the Arditti Quartet at St Giles’ Cripplegate and Jerwood Hall, LSO St Luke’s in January 2012 Jonathan Harvey String Quartet no. 4: Notes towards an analysis Michael Clarke discusses Jonathan Harvey’s String Quartet no. 4 with illustrations by the Arditti quartet and Gilbert Nouno Arditti Quartet perform Wolfgang Rihm String Quartet no. 13 A film by Paul Archbold and Colin Still of a performance of Wolfgang Rihm’s String Quartet no. 13 at St Giles’ Cripplegate, London in January 2012 Wolfgang Rihm in conversation with Lucas Fels Wolfgang Rihm discusses his string quartets Climbing a Mountain: Arditti Quartet rehearse Brian Ferneyhough String Quartet no. 6 Arditti Quartet perform Brian Ferneyhough String Quartet no. 6 Two films by Paul Archbold and Colin Still tracing the Arditti Quartet’s rehearsals for the première of Brian Ferneyhough’s String Quartet no. 6 at Donaueschinger MusikTage in October 2010 Christopher Redgate ‘Multiphonia’ Christopher Redgate performs his virtuoso work on the new Redgate/Howarth microtonal oboe system, accompanied by several films in which he discusses the creation of the new oboe, supported by an AHRC Creative and Performance Research Fellowship Paul Archbold ‘Fluxions’ Christopher Redgate and Ensemble Exposé perform Paul Archbold’s Fluxions, accompanied by a documentary in which Christopher Redgate and Paul Archbold discuss the composition of the work Liza Lim ‘The Navigator’ ‘Songs Found in Dream’ ‘Invisibility’
ELISION ensemble perform Liza Lim’s opera ELISION ensemble perform Liza Lim’s chamber work Séverine Ballon performs Liza Lim’s solo cello work
Michael Finnissy ‘Âwâz-e Niyâz’ Christopher Redgate and Michael Finnissy perform Finnissy’s new work for Redgate/Howarth microtonal oboe doubling Lupophon and piano
Lecture podcasts (2011-13) Symposium - The Instrument in Musical Performance Peter Hill
Music for Two Pianists
Peter Sheppard Skærved & Neil Heyde
‘Naked’ instruments: Ravel’s Sonata for Violin and Cello (1922)
Mine Doğantan-Dack & Sebastian Comberti
Equal Partners? Piano-Cello Duo in Historical Context
John Irving, Jane Booth, Peter Collyer
Three Friends in Conversation - Mozart’s “Kegelstatt” Trio, K.498
Christopher Redgate & Paul Archbold
The Electronic Chamber: Creating Interactive Performance
Neil Heyde
Choreographing the Instrument, Body and Ensemble
Anthony Rooley ‘Music is nothing more than a Decoration of Silence’ (Marsilio Ficino, c.1485) Mine Doğantan-Dack
‘The least expressive instrument’ (Harold Bauer, 1917)
Conference - (M)other Russia: Evolution or Revolution Sir Rodric Braithwaite
Russia Now
Conference - Musical Geographies of Central Asia Saida Daukeyeva
East vs West: regional styles of dombyra performance and their representation in music practice and discourse in modern Kazakhstan
Theodore Levin
The Geography of Possibility: Mapping the Future of the Past in Central Asian Music
Megan M Rancier Narratives of Ancientness and Kazakh Nationhood in the Music of the “Turan” Ensemble Stephanie Bunn
The body and the landscape in Kyrgyz poetics: topography resonance and image in contemporary Kyrgyz epic
DeNOTE: Centre for eighteenth-century performance practice
Mozart’s Kegelstatt Trio: an eighteenth-century conversation Mozart Trio in Eb, for clarinet, viola and fortepiano, ‘Kegelstatt’ K.498 John Irving, Jane Booth and Peter Collyer Three films including a documentary on the work, a performance on historical instruments, and an introduction to the historical keyboards at Finchcocks Museum Available for download from iTunesU, and streaming via YouTube A DVD is available from the IMR. Please send an email to: music@sas.ac.uk The Mozart Project The first interactive digital book on Mozart, The Mozart Project, published by Pipedreams Collective, was released on the AppStore/iTunes/iBooks on 15 May to critical acclaim, becoming the no.1 bestseller on the iBooks non-fiction list within five days. Ensemble DeNOTE features in a number of video performances illustrating Mozart’s concertos and chamber music. Additionally, John Irving has authored two chapters, and taken part in several audio interviews. Lecture-Recitals Monday 18th August 19:00 North York Moors Chamber Music Festival, St Oswald’s, Lythe Beethoven Clarinet Trio, Op.11 and Mozart Gran’ Partita (arr. C.F. Schwencke) with Marcus Barcham Stevens, Mark Braithwaite, Andrew Skidmore, Jane Booth, John Irving http://northyorkmoorsfestival.com/ Saturday 4th October 19:30 Finchcocks, Goudhurst, Kent Mozart “Kegelstatt” Trio, K.498 and chamber music by his Viennese contemporaries with Jane Booth, Oliver Wilson, John Irving http://www.finchcocks.co.uk/pages/concert.php?event=125 Friday 14th November 14:30 Greenwich International Early Music Festival Old Royal Naval College Chapel, Greenwich. Beethoven Trio for Clarinet, Cello, Piano, Op.38 with John Irving, Jane Booth and Ruth Alford http://www.earlymusicshop.com/More/Greenwich_International_Early_Music_Festival.aspx
ICONEA Near and Middle Eastern archeomusicology
In autumn 2014, ICONEA will hold its seminars at The Oriental Institute, University of Oxford Tuesday 30 September 15:00 - 18:00 ICONEA, The Oriental Institute, University of Oxford, Pusey Lane, Oxford OX1 2LE Irving Finkel (British Museum), Bruno de Florence, Richard Dumbrill ‘What is Middle-Eastern archaeomusicology, what is the evidence, and how does it make us reconsider our perception of the fundamentals of music through critical Lacanian psychoanalytical approach.’ All seminars are free of charge and open to the public. For details of the autumn events programme please see: www.iconea.org ICONEA 2014 will be held at the University of Oxford
Middle East, South and Central Asia Music Forum
The Middle East, South and Central Asia Music Forum is open to researchers, students and anyone interested in the music and culture of the regions. For details of the autumn events programme please see: music.sas.ac.uk/mescamf
SongArt Performance
A research group for practitioners and theorists of song performance, poetry, theatre, musicology and philosophy with a view to gaining new insights into the practice and ontology of song performance For details of the autumn events programme please see: www.songart.co.uk
The Listening Workshop An open forum with invited talks and discussions of readings on the history, ethnography and theory of listening, convened by Professor Rachel Beckles Willson Meetings take place at: 11 Bedford Square, London WC1 3RF Admission free Organised by Royal Holloway’s Humanities and Arts Research Centre For details of the autumn events programme please see: https://www.royalholloway.ac.uk/harc/home.aspx
Medieval Song Network The Medieval Song Network will be hosting a series of events and talks in Yale this coming year 2014-15. Co-hosted by Ardis Butterfield and Anna Zayarusnaya, a group called the Medieval Song Lab will be meeting regularly. The Medieval Song Lab brings together scholars in Connecticut and nearby interested in medieval song. Both “Medieval” and “Song” are taken in their broadest reasonable sense, to include sacred and secular music from before c. 1400. The lab hosts at least three events per semester that focus around the discussion of pre-circulated papers. We also organize informal singing from medieval notation. Flexibility of format and focus as well as interdisciplinary membership—the MSL draws faculty and students from Music, French, English, Italian, and Comparative Literature departments as well as performers—helps make the Lab a fun and productive environment in which members can share their work, develop new research ideas, and foster a sense of community. For details of the autumn events programme please see: www.medievalsongnetwork.org
An international network supporting resources for researchers interested in music criticism and in the more general musical culture of the nineteenth century in France. music.sas.ac.uk/fmc The Press is central to the understanding of French history in the 19th century, whether the inquiry is directed towards foreign affairs, transport, agriculture or the performing arts. Its various forms – daily newspapers, specialist publications and non-specialist periodicals – provide not only data about performances, artists and their mentalités but also permit close readings of the language underpinning their aesthetic and ideological judgements. The Francophone Music Criticism project started life in 2006 as an AHRC Network based at the IMR and led by Katharine Ellis (RHUL) and Mark Everist (University of Southampton). It brings together a worldwide network of over 175 bilingual scholars to create an open-access online resource of music-critical texts from nineteenth-century France, and to provide an environment in which the group can take forward historical, linguistic and aesthetic concerns central to French artistic culture of the nineteenth century. We run a Jiscmail discussion list FRENCH-MUS-CRIT@jiscmail.ac.uk which ensures ready virtual contact (new members always welcome!), but our main public face is our collection of over 1900 articles (23 anthologies; approximately three million words) with further texts in the ‘Salome’ collection expected in autumn 2014. If you are interested in joining the project, please email: katharine.ellis@bristol.ac.uk
BBC Symphony Orchestra Students are invited to attend selected BBC Symphony Orchestra rehearsals in Maida Vale Please note that the dates below are for the concerts, not the rehearsals. To find out rehearsal dates/times and to book a place, please send an email to: music@sas.ac.uk Students are required to bring scores of repertoire works. The IMR will endeavour to provide scores of newly-commissioned works. The BBC Symphony Orchestra offers discounts on selected concerts through the Student Pulse app. Wednesday September 24, 19:30 Kevin Volans The Mountain That Left John Adams My Father Knew Charles Ives Ives Symphony No. 4 Andrew Litton conductor; David Hill conductor; Pumeza Matshikiza soprano; William Wolfram piano Sunday October 5, 19:30 Total Immersion: John Tavener Remembered Sir John Tavener Little Ceremonial Akhmatova: Requiem The Protecting Veil Alexander Vedernikov conductor; Marie Arnet soprano; Brindley Sherratt bass; Nicolas Altstaedt cello Saturday October 11, 19:30 Tchaikovsky Symphony No. 6 in B minor, ‘Pathétique’ Mozart Concerto for Violin No. 4 in D major, K 218 Nielsen Symphony No. 1 in G minor, FS16, Op 7 Sakari Oramo conductor; Augustin Hadelich violin Wednesday November 19, 19:30 Respighi Trittico Botticelliano Brett Dean The Annunciation (UK première) Richard Strauss Le bourgeois gentilhomme, Op 60 (suite) Josep Pons conductor Sunday November 30, 19:30 The Sound of Chaplin Timothy Brock Kid Auto Races Neil Brand Easy Street Timothy Brock The Immigrant Chaplin Shoulder Arms Timothy Brock conductor Friday December 12, 19:30 Rachmaninov Spring Nielsen Symphony No. 2 ‘The Four Temperaments’, FS29, Op 16 Busoni Concerto for Piano in C major, K247, Op 39 Sakari Oramo conductor; Igor Golovatenko baritone; Garrick Ohlsson piano
Forthcoming IMR events in spring 2015 Monday 16 February 2015 Helmut Lachenmann at 80 A study day devoted to the music of one of Germany’s pioneering composers, to include lectures, film, a conversation with the composer and performance by the Arditti Quartet For further details please visit: music.sas.ac.uk Friday 20 March 2015 Pierre Boulez at 90 A study day in association with the BBCSO festival Total Immersion: the music of Pierre Boulez For further details please visit: music.sas.ac.uk
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Nielsen Study Day Saturday 11 October Fountain Room, Barbican Centre 10:30 - 13:30 Nielsen Study Day: IMR morning symposium Nanette Nielsen (Nottingham) Danish music and modernism’s legacies Christopher Tarrant (RHUL/Newcastle) Nielsen and musical form David Fanning (Manchester) Nielsen’s life through his letters Sakari Oramo, (Chief Conductor, BBC Symphony Orchestra) Performing Nielsen 14:30 - 17:30 Nielsen Study Day: BBCSO study afternoon Sakari Oramo (BBCSO) An introduction to the BBCSO’s Nielsen cycle Daniel Grimley (Oxford) Nielsen’s landscapes Andrew Mellor (Gramophone) Nielsen’s Symphonies Paul Binding (Independent scholar/biographer) H C Andersen, Nielsen, and Danish humour Stephen Johnson (BBC Radio 3) Discovering Nielsen 1 Admission free to ticket-holders for any BBCSO Nielsen concert Please note capacity is limited for the symposium and study afternoon, so please arrive early to avoid disappointment. Attendance at the morning session does not guarantee admission to the afternoon session For details of the BBCSO Nielsen symphony cycle and ticket prices please visit: barbican.org.uk Barbican Box Office 020 7638 8891
Nielsen:
The Symphonies October 2014 – May 2015 Nielsen’s six elemental symphonies, presented by the BBC Symphony Orchestra and Chief Conductor Sakari Oramo in the lead up to the 150th anniversary of the composer’s birth.
SATURDAY 11 OCTOBER, 7.30PM
WEDNESDAY 18 FEBRUARY, 7.30PM
Tchaikovsky Symphony No. 6, ‘Pathétique’ Mozart Violin Concerto No. 4 in D major, K 218 Nielsen Symphony No. 1
Sibelius The Oceanides Zemlinsky Maeterlinck Songs Ravel Le tombeau de Couperin Nielsen Symphony No. 4, ‘The Inextinguishable’
Sakari Oramo conductor Augustin Hadelich violin
FRIDAY 12 DECEMBER, 7.30PM Rachmaninov Spring Nielsen Symphony No. 2, ‘The Four Temperaments’ Busoni Piano Concerto Sakari Oramo conductor Garrick Ohlsson piano Igor Golovatenko baritone BBC Symphony Chorus
Sakari Oramo conductor Anne Sofie von Otter mezzo-soprano
FRIDAY 10 APRIL, 7.30PM Ravel La valse Prokofiev Piano Concerto No. 3 in C major Nielsen Symphony No. 5 Ravel Boléro Sakari Oramo conductor Alexander Toradze piano
FRIDAY 16 JANUARY, 7.30PM
SATURDAY 23 MAY, 7.30PM
Sibelius The Dryad Rachmaninov Piano Concerto No. 3 Nielsen Symphony No. 3, ‘Sinfonia espansiva’
Sibelius Tapiola Rachmaninov Piano Concerto No. 4 Foulds April – England Nielsen Symphony No. 6, ‘Sinfonia semplice’
Sakari Oramo conductor Lucy Hall soprano Marcus Farnsworth baritone Yevgeny Sudbin piano
Sakari Oramo conductor Denis Kozhukhin piano bbc.co.uk/symphonyorchestra for full details of the BBC Symphony Orchestra’s Barbican season and to sign up for the free e-newsletter.
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