Author Archives: Ben Winters

“Symphony” episodes 3 and 4 on BBC4

Posted on June 4, 2013 by Ben Winters

Episodes three and four of “Symphony”, the award-winning collaboration between the BBC and the music department, will be shown this Friday (7 June) and next (14 June) at 8pm on BBC4. Episode three is entitled “New Nations, New Worlds,” and the … Continue reading →

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“Symphony” to be repeated on BBC4

Posted on May 20, 2013 by Ben Winters

“Symphony”, the OU’s award-winning collaboration with BBC4, is to be re-screened on BBC4 beginning this Friday at 8pm. The four-part series is presented by Simon Russell Beale and features performances by the BBC Symphony Orchestra, the Orchestra of the Age of … Continue reading →

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‘Art of Fear’ weekend at Southbank’s ‘Rest is Noise’ Festival

Posted on May 10, 2013 by Ben Winters

This weekend, the Southbank’s ‘Rest is Noise’ Festival is devoted to the ‘Art of Fear’, and OU music lecturer Robert Samuels will be contributing to the events by giving a ‘bite-size’ talk on Sunday at 12.30pm in the foyer of … Continue reading →

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Lotti concert on 13 April

Posted on March 28, 2013 by Ben Winters

The UK premiere (and first performance anywhere for 250 years) of Antonio Lotti’s Mass for Three Choirs will take place at 7pm on Saturday 13 April at Grosvenor Chapel, South Audley Street, London W1K 2PA.  The Buon Tempi Consort will be conducted by PhD student … Continue reading →

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America weekend at Southbank ‘Rest is Noise’ Festival

Posted on March 22, 2013 by Ben Winters

This weekend, the Southbank’s ‘Rest is Noise’ Festival is devoted to ‘America, 1900-1950′, and OU music lecturers Ben Winters and Catherine Tackley will be contributing to the events. Ben will be talking about the Viennese opera/film composer Erich Korngold, and … Continue reading →

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The Sound + the Fury: A Century of Modern Music

Posted on February 7, 2013 by Ben Winters

This new collaboration between BBC4 and the Music Department tells the story of modernism in the 20th Century. It airs on Tuesday 12 February at 9pm with the first of three one-hour documentaries (“Wrecking Ball”). The series features a number … Continue reading →

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The Rest is Noise Festival starts soon….

Posted on January 10, 2013 by Ben Winters

In anticipation of the opening weekend of the Southbank Centre’s 20th-century music festival, The Rest is Noise (19th-20th January ‘Here Comes the 20th Century’), please see the following news announcement from Platform: http://www.open.ac.uk/platform/news-and-features/the-rest-noise-major-festival-events-celebrating-20th-century-classical-music Current OU students considering attending some of … Continue reading →

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OU partners Southbank Centre in groundbreaking music festival

Posted on December 6, 2012 by Ben Winters

The OU is a partner for a major festival of music to take place all next year at the Southbank Centre in London. Based on Alex Ross’s bestselling book The Rest is Noise, the festival is an ambitious attempt to promote the … Continue reading →

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Handel Institute Conference: ‘Handel at Court’

Posted on October 31, 2012 by Ben Winters

OU music department staff Donald Burrows and Helen Green will present papers at the Handel Institute conference, which will be held at The Foundling Museum, London, on 24 and 25 November. Donald will talk about the relationships of George I … Continue reading →

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Skyfall

Posted on October 24, 2012 by Ben Winters

With the new James Bond film seemingly the talk of the media, Ben Winters offers a few thoughts on its music in this short article on OpenLearn.

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