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“Symphony” episodes 3 and 4 on BBC4
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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Young people and music research study showcased by Musical Progressions Roundtable
Ruth Herbert has been invited to share findings from her nationwide British Academy-funded study of young people’s subjective experiences of music outside school at the next meeting of the Musical Progressions Roundtable later this month. The MPR is a network … Continue reading
“Symphony” to be repeated on BBC4
“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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Frank Bridge study day
On Saturday 23 March the University of Bristol is hosting a study day on the English composer Frank Bridge. The details can be found here: http://bristol.ac.uk/music/CHOMBEC/bridgestudyday2013.html Fiona Richards is giving a paper on the musical connections between Bridge, his pupil … Continue reading
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The Sound + the Fury: A Century of Modern Music
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….
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
OU partners Southbank Centre in groundbreaking music festival
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
Music and Patrick White
The year 2012 marks the centenary of the birth of Australia’s Nobel Prize winning author Patrick White, who died just over twenty years ago. The French online journal Cercles has published a special issue dedicated to Patrick White, edited by David Coad and Jean-François … Continue reading
Music Research Student on BBC ‘One Show’
Part-time OU Music Department research student, David Hammond, will be featured on the BBC ‘One Show’ from 7 pm on Friday 9 November discussing the role of the Last Post and Reveille as part of military ceremony. http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b007tcw7
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Handel Institute Conference: ‘Handel at Court’
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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