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IMR events spring 2015
Institute of Musical Research events programme - spring 2015 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 photo: Helmut Lachenmann Š 2005 by Betty Freeman, Los Angeles Helmut Lachenmann at 80, Monday 16 February 10:00 - 21:15 Kings College London, Strand, London WC2R 2LS see page 4 for further details
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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 Chichester 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 3
Helmut Lachenmann at 80
Helmut Lachenmann © 2009 by Gaby Minz, Neuhardenberg
Arditti Quartet © Lukas Beck
Monday 16 February, 10:00 - 21:15 King’s College London, Strand, London Celebrating the life of one of Germany’s most influential composers with papers on Lachenmann’s music, his aesthetics and his context in contemporary culture. 10:00 St David’s Room, King’s College London, Strand ADMISSION FREE Max Paddison (Emeritus Professor, Durham) Adorno and the aesthetics of post war music Rüdiger Görner (QMUL) The Beauty of Noise Or How to contextualize Helmut Lachenmann Ulrich Mosch (University of Geneva) Suspended magic - composing in a world dominated by music of the past Helmut Lachenmann in conversation with John Deathridge 14:15 Arthur and Paula Lucas Theatre, King’s College London, Strand ADMISSION FREE FILM: Bettina Ehrhardt „Wo ich noch nie war“ – Der Komponist Helmut Lachenmann FILM: Barrie Gavin Orchesterfarben - Helmut Lachenmann und Michael Gielen 19:15 The Chapel, King’s College London, Strand TICKETS £15 (Students and under 18s free) Helmut Lachenmann in conversation with Julian Anderson CONCERT: Arditti Quartet Lachenmann String Quartet no. 1 ‘Gran Torso’ (1972) Lachenmann String Quartet no. 3 ‘Grido’ (2001) Further details: music.sas.ac.uk/lachenmann Promoted by the Institute of Musical Research and the Institute of Modern Languages Research, in association with King’s College London. Supported by the Hepner Foundation and the Embassy of the Federal Republic of Germany. 4
Directions in Musical Research Open to the public, free of charge
Monday, 9 February, 17.00–18.30 Chancellor’s Hall, Senate House Joel Sachs (Professor of Music History, Chamber Music, and New Music Performance at The Juilliard School) Henry Cowell -- Weighing the Evidence Joel Sachs is the founder and director of the New Juilliard Ensemble – the chamber orchestra for new music at the renowned New York conservatory – and co-director of the internationally acclaimed new-music ensemble Continuum. He has a Ph.D. in musicology from Columbia and has published extensively on 19th and 20th century topics, including a book about Johann Nepomuk Hummel and a biography of Henry Cowell. He is currently working on two books about musical life in early nineteenth-century London. Monday, 23 February, 17.00–18.30 Room 102, Senate House Nicola Lefanu (Professor Emeritus, York) and Nancy Gaffield (University of Kent) chaired by Kate Romano (Guildhall School) Tokaido Road “Inspired by the Japanese artist Hiroshige’s woodblock print series 53 Stations of the Tokaido, LeFanu and her librettist Nancy Gaffield have created an existential journey in speech, song, mime and dance with Hiroshige’s pictures projected. What with unhappy love, treacherous rivers and wintry scenes, it’s rather like an oriental Winterreise. We’re left with Hiroshige in old age, singing his own epitaph, and the dying murmurs of the sho (Japanese mouth organ) and flickerings of the plucked koto.” Hilary Finch (The Times) Tokaido Road will be performed at Milton Court, Silk Street, London on Wednesday 25 February. Monday, 9 March, 17.00–18.30 Room 102, Senate House Alison Garnham (Visiting Research Associate, King’s College London) Learning from the Enemy: William Glock and the BBC Third Programme in 1947 Alison Garnham was archivist of the Hans Keller Archive when it was established at Cambridge University Library in 1996. Since then she has published Hans Keller and the BBC (Ashgate 2003) and Hans Keller and Internment (Plumbago 2011), co-edited with Christopher Wintle collections of Keller’s writings on Music and Psychology and Benjamin Britten, and is currently editing Keller’s letters with Susi Woodhouse. She has also done considerable research in the BBC’s archive, contributed to The Proms: A New History (Thames and Hudson 2007), and is currently working on a social history of music in Britain in the 1940s and 50s. Monday, 23 March, 17.00–18.30 Room 102, Senate House Richard Wistreich (Royal College of Music) Towards a Historiography of the Early Modern Voice Richard Wistreich joined the Royal College of Music in September 2014 from the Royal Northern College of Music, where he was Dean of Research and Enterprise. He is a scholar and teacher with wide-ranging research interests, and in particular, vocal performance in Europe between 1500 and 1800. He has published widely on aspects of the cultural history of singing and, among other books, co-edited the Cambridge Companion to Monteverdi. He is currently the co-editor of the Cambridge History of Sixteenth Century Music. 5
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
www.cmpcp.ac.uk/imr2015.html
Monday, 26 January, 17.00–18.30 Chancellor’s Hall, Senate House Terry Charlton (Royal College of Music) Performing lost repertoires: seventeenth-century French keyboard music from the perspective of Mersenne’s 1636 clavichord The description of the clavichord in Mersenne’s Harmonie Universelle (1636) is sufficiently detailed to have enabled the clavichord maker, Peter Bavington, to build a working example. The Mersenne clavichord project has revealed three main areas of enquiry: the definition of the techniques of known clavichord music of the early sixteenth century; an examination of the few surviving sources of the early seventeenth century; and an assessment of the performance implications for the mainstream harpsichord and organ corpus. The results of this creative interaction will be presented and performed by the speaker during the seminar using the primary research tool, the Bavington/Mersenne clavichord itself. Monday, 2 February, 17.00–18.30 Room 102, Senate House Amy Bliers-Carruthers Cutting Through the Noise: Learning to Listen to Acoustic Recordings via a 21st-century Reenactment Monday, 2 March, 17.00–18.30 Room 102, Senate House Adam Linson (University of Oxford) Improvisation, attention, and rapid decision-making under uncertainty Monday, 16 March, 17.00–18.30 Room 102, Senate House Franziska Schroeder (Queen’s University Belfast) Performing Free 6
Research Training For full details of the Institute of Musical Research’s Research Training programme, please visit: music.sas.ac.uk Friday, 30 January, 10.00–16.30 Conference Centre, The British Library, 96 Euston Road, London NW1 2DB British Library Doctoral Students’ Open Day: Music This event is for new PhD students, as well as Masters students who are planning to continue their research at doctoral level. The day provides an opportunity for students to discover the Library’s unique research materials, including learning about the music collections and how to access them, as well as meeting expert staff and other researchers in your field. To book please visit: www.bl.uk/events/doctoral-students-open-day-music or email: HigherEducation@bl.uk. Organised by the British Library in association with the Institute of Musical Research. The Institute of Musical Research can provide discretionary travel bursaries for students coming from outside London. Students should apply directly to the Institute of Musical Research for a travel bursary by sending an email to music@sas.ac.uk with the subject line “The British Library - Open day for PhD students in Music”. Please include details of your course, institution and year of study. Quantitative Data and Music A series of workshops, organised by the University of Sussex and funded by the AHRC, to explore the possibilities and questions surrounding quantitative data in music research. For more details see https://musicdatasussex.wordpress.com/ All the workshops will be held in Room 246, Senate House, University of London Tuesday, 3 February, 14:00-17:00 Workshop I - Approaches to Quantitative Data for Music Researchers Tuesday, 3 March, 14:00-17:00 Workshop II - Creative/Compositional Implementations of Quantitative Data Tuesday, 7 April, 14:00-17:00 Workshop III - Big Data and Music Research Open to all postgraduate students and early career researchers. To apply, please send an email to music@sas.ac.uk Panufnik Composers Scheme The LSO Discovery Panufnik Composers Scheme is an exciting initiative offering six emerging composers each year the opportunity to write for a world-class symphony orchestra. It has been devised by the London Symphony Orchestra in association with Lady Panufnik in memory of her late husband, the composer Sir Andrzej Panufnik, and is generously supported by the Helen Hamlyn Trust. Applicants should be under the age of 45 and should be of British nationality, studying in the UK, or resident in the UK for at least three years. DEADLINE: Friday 20 February 2015 Further Details: lso.co.uk/composers 7
Conferences and Symposia Thursday 8 - Saturday 10 January Music Department, University of Bristol RMA Research Student’s Conference 2015 Invited speakers: Bettina Varwig (King’s College London), Janet Topp Fargion (British Library), Rachel Beckles Willson (Royal Holloway) Topics to include: Music in urban environments; Music for the stage; Communities and music-making; Reception of music; Music and politics; Pop and digital cultures; Musical ethnographies; Musical pedagogies; Transcending Romanticism; Reframing the listener; Experimental theory; Composition workshop and electroacoustic performance. Further details: www.bristol.ac.uk/arts/gradschool/pg-activity/conferences/rma/ Promoted by the Royal Musical Association in association with the IMR. Monday 16 March St David’s Room, King’s College London, Strand Campus Helmut Lachenmann at 80 See page 4 for further details music.sas.ac.uk/lachenmann Promoted by the Institute of Musical Research and the Institute of Modern Languages Research, in association with Kings College London. Supported by the Hepner Foundation and the Embassy of the Federal Republic of Germany Friday 20 - Sunday 22 February Department of Music, Goldsmiths, University of London Compositional Aesthetics and the Political The increasing growth of the field of Music and Politics has recently seen quite a few turns in Music Studies, materialized in articles, books, and journals. However, perhaps as a reaction to traditional musicology (with its insistence on the musical work and on authorship), the study of compositional practices against contemporary political dimensions, has hitherto received less scholarly attention. This gathering will focus primarily on practice-based research, its underlying politics, the explicit or implicit theme of the political, and how these translate into to the praxis of composition. Further details: compositionpolitics.tumblr.com/post/97637333053/call-for-papers Promoted by the Contemporary Music Research Unit, Goldsmiths, University of London in association with the IMR Thursday 26 February - Sunday 1 March Guildhall School, Silk Street, Barbican, EC2Y 8DT Reflective Conservatoire Conference 2015 The Conference brings together leading performers, teachers and researchers from all over the world to address the key issues in Higher Education within music and drama, explored through a series of performances, practical workshops, keynote speeches, curated sessions, seminars and round-table discussions. Further details: www.gsmd.ac.uk/RCC2015 Promoted by Guildhall School in association with the IMR 8
Friday 20 March Chancellor’s Hall, Senate House, University of London Pierre Boulez at 90: a study day See inside back cover for further details Promoted by the Institute of Musical Research, Institute of Moden Languages Research and Guildhall School in association with BBC Symphony Orchestra. Monday 30 March - Wednesday 1 April University of Manchester Music under German Occupation Following on from their entry into Austria and the Sudetenland in the late 1930s, the Germans pursued a policy of cultural imperialism in the countries they occupied during the Second World War. As a result, almost all music institutions in the occupied lands came under direct German control, or were subject to severe scrutiny and censorship from the occupying forces. The conference proposes to explore these issues. Further details: music.sas.ac.uk Promoted by the University of Manchester in association with the IMR Thursday 9 April - Saturday 11 April Room G34/G37, Senate House, University of London Music biography conference Further details: music.sas.ac.uk Promoted by Monash University in association with the IMR Tuesday 14 April - Friday 17 April Faculty of Music, University of Oxford 2nd International Conference on Music and Consciousness Following on from the success of the first International Conference on Music and Consciousness (Sheffield, 2006), and the edited volume Music and Consciousness to which this led, this second conference is again intended as a forum for the exchange of perspectives from a broad range of disciplines, including but not restricted to: neuroscience, psychology, phenomenology, philosophy, sociology, musicology, performance studies, ethnomusicology, music therapy, evolutionary psychology, cognitive archaeology, and cultural history. Further details: www.music.ox.ac.uk/muscon2/index.html Organised jointly by the Faculty of Music, University of Oxford, and the University of Newcastle’s International Centre for Music Studies, in association with the IMR Friday 24 April Room 349, Senate House, University of London El Sistema and the Alternatives: Social Action through Music in Critical Perspective This one-day conference will be the first event dedicated to critical thinking about El Sistema, its derivatives around the world, and programs that provide alternative models. We aim to stimulate deeper reflection on a shift in the function of the orchestra towards social inclusion and discipline. Further details: events.sas.ac.uk/ilas/events/view/17502/ Promoted by Royal Holloway, University of London and the Institute of Latin American Studies
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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 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 Sir Peter Maxwell Davies: 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 10
Documentaries and performances 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) 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 A documentary 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, and a film of a live performance of the work. 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 11
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
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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 9 March 19:30 Royal Northern College of Music, Manchester Quartets for Clarinet, Piano and strings by Mozart, Hummel and Beethoven with John Irving, Jane Booth, Peter Hanson, Rachel Roberts and Ruth Alford Contact: michelle.castelletti@rncm.ac.uk Saturday 16th May 19:30 St Peter’s Wallingford A programme of works by Mozart: ‘Kegelstatt’ Trio, K.498, Violin Sonata K.454 and Gran’ Partita (arr. C.F. Schwencke) with Marcus Barcham-Stevens, Oliver Wilson, Ruth Alford, Jane Booth and John Irving Contact: laurence.attewill@gmail.com DeNOTE has established a Historically-Informed Performance Chamber Music Course in Lythe (North Yorkshire). It will run again from 26-30 July 2015. Enquiries: admin@denote.org.uk 13
ICONEA Near and Middle Eastern archeomusicology
In spring 2015, ICONEA will hold its seminars at The Oriental Institute, University of Oxford For details of the spring events programme please see: www.iconea.org All seminars are free of charge and open to the public. ICONEA has extended its activities with participation and affiliation with the Music and Beyond Foundation and Global Week 4 Syria, both organisations based in the Netherlands. These groups aim to raise awareness and attempt to solve conflictual problems through music and concerts produced in the Near and Middle East. ICONEA is delighted to welcome Julia Katarina who will be working alongside Richard Dumbrill. In addition to being co-editor of ICONEA publications, Julia Katarina’s work with ICONEA will extend to affiliations with other institutions such as the Institute of Musical Research, PLM at the Sorbonne University in Paris, with The American University of Beirut, the Babylon Foundation, and of all other organisations, NGOs and Foundations with which ICONEA is already engaged.
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 spring events programme please see: music.sas.ac.uk/mescamf 14
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 spring 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 spring events programme please see: https://www.royalholloway.ac.uk/harc/home.aspx
Classic Texts in Music and Culture 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
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 precirculated papers. For details of the spring events programme please see: www.medievalsongnetwork.org 15
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 190 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 spring 2015. If you are interested in joining the project, please email: katharine.ellis@bristol.ac.uk
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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. 16 January Nielsen Cycle Sibelius The Dryad Rachmaninov Piano Concerto No. 3 Nielsen Symphony No 3, ‘Sinfonia espansiva’ Sakari Oramo conductor, Lucy Hall soprano, Marcus Farnsworth baritone, Federico Colli piano 31 January Total Immersion: Percussion Wolfgang Rihm Tutuguri (UK première) Kent Nagano conductor 18 February Nielsen Cycle Sibelius Oceanides Zemlinsky Maeterlinck Songs Ravel Le tombeau de Couperin Nielsen Symphony No 4 Sakari Oramo conductor, Anne Sofie von Otter mezzo-soprano 8 March Alice in Wonderland Unsuk Chin Alice in Wonderland (UK première) Baldur Brönnimann conductor, Netia Jones director / designer and video artist with illustrations from Ralph Steadman. 21 March Total Immersion: Boulez at 90 Pierre Boulez Notations I-IV & VII Pierre Boulez Pli selon pli François Xavier Roth conductor, Yeree Suh Soprano 10 April Nielsen Cycle Ravel La Valse Prokofiev Piano Concerto No 3 Nielsen Symphony No 5 Ravel Boléro Sakari Oramo conductor, Alexander Toradze piano
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Forthcoming IMR events in summer 2015 Wednesday 27 - Friday 29 May Institut Français du Royaume-Uni, 17 Queensberry Place, London SW7 2DT City of Light: Paris 1900-1950 Organised in conjunction with City of Light: Paris 1900-1950, the Philharmonia Orchestra’s major festival of French music, in partnership with the Institut Français du Royaume-Uni and the Institute of Musical Research. For further details please visit: music.sas.ac.uk Monday 22 - Thursday 25 June Queen Mary, University of London Fifth Biennial International Conference on Mathematics and Computation in Music Promoted by the Society for Mathematics and Computation in Music, the London Mathematical Society, and the Institute for Musical Research. For further details please visit: music.sas.ac.uk Monday 17 - Saturday 22 August Royal Northern College of Music, Manchester Ninth Triennial Conference of the European Society for the Cognitive Sciences of Music Promoted by the Royal Northern College of Music in association with the Institute of Musical Research. For further details please visit: www.escom2015.org
Friends of the IMR If you would like to further develop the work of the Institute of Musical Research, please join the Friends of the IMR. Friends of the IMR have supported: • Lectures by distinguished speakers • Concerts by international artists • Workshops for early-career composers • Training events for postgraduate students Friends of the IMR receive the following benefits: • Free reference access to Senate House Library and its outstanding music collection • IMR brochure sent to you by post or email • Invitation to special Friends of the IMR events • Golden Friends will be acknowledged in the IMR brochure Annual fee Student Friend (£10), Friend (£45), Golden Friend (£100) Gift-aided donations are welcome For further details, please see: music.sas.ac.uk 18
Pierre Boulez at 90 Study Day Friday 20 March Chancellor’s Hall, Senate House, University of London ADMISSION FREE Celebrating the achievements of Pierre Boulez, composer, conductor and cultural impresario, this study day examines his work from the perspective of scholars in Music, French and Cultural Studies. 10:00 - 13:15 Boulez, literature and culture Speakers to include: Robert Piencikowski (Paul Sacher Foundation, Basle) Katherine Shingler (Nottingham) Mary Breatnach (Edinburgh) Bernard McGuirk (Nottingham)
Pierre Boulez © Universal Edition / Eric Marinitsch
ROUND TABLE 1: The legacies of Pierre Boulez Panel to include: Julian Anderson (GSMD), Georgina Born (Oxford), Stephen Walsh (Professor Emeritus, Cardiff ) Chair: Robert Worby (composer and BBC Radio 3 presenter) 14:45 - 18:00 Boulez and music Speakers to include: Edward Campbell (Aberdeen) Martin Iddon (Leeds) Arnold Whittall (Professor Emeritus, King’s College London) Michael Clarke (Huddersfield)
ROUND TABLE 2: Working with Pierre Boulez Panel to include: Barrie Gavin (director), Jane Manning (soprano). Chair: Robert Worby (composer and BBC Radio 3 presenter) 18:30 - 19:30 FILM Barrie Gavin “Pierre Boulez: Portrait-Analysis-Performance” (BBC, 1966) A film exploring Improvisation II sur Mallarmé from Pli Selon Pli Admission free For details of BBCSO Total Immersion: Pierre Boulez on Saturday 21 March and ticket prices please visit: barbican.org.uk Barbican Box Office 020 7638 8891 Promoted by the Institute of Musical Research, Institute of Modern Languages Research and Guildhall School in association with BBC Symphony Orchestra. Supported by the Cassal Endowment Fund. 19
New music at the Barbican Spring 2015
Artist in Association: Brett Dean PIERRE BOULEZ AT 90 SATURDAY 21 MARCH 2015 Celebrate the 90th birthday of Pierre Boulez, composer, thinker and cultural leader, and one of the most influential figures in post-war music. A day packed with film, discussion and a string of glittering works includes documentaries about the man and his music and no less than three concerts featuring such seminal works as Éclat/ Multiples, Notations I-IV & VII and Pli selon pli.
We welcome our new Artist in Association Brett Dean with concerts including the UK premiere of The Last Days of Socrates, written for and performed by legendary bass Sir John Tomlinson.
World and UK Premieres
An exciting season of cuttingedge new works includes the UK premiere of Unsuk Chin’s opera Alice in Wonderland, the world premiere of Albert Schnelzer’s Tales from Suburbia and Detlev Glanert’s orchestrations of songs from Mahler’s Des Knaben Wunderhorn performed by Dietrich Henschel and with film projections. bbc.co.uk/symphonyorchestra for full details of all events and to sign up for our e-newsletter. Follow us: twitter.com/bbcso facebook.com/bbcso
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