Author Archives: Robert Samuels

OU Music Associate Lecturer to be published in landmark Mahler study

Mark Summerfield, who completed his PhD with the OU Music Department in 2008 and was an Associate Lecturer and Summer School Tutor on module A214: Understanding Music, is the author of Chapter 3 of the forthcoming study Rethinking Mahler edited by Jeremy … Continue reading

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Music showcased in Faculty launch event

The teaching and research of the Music Department featured prominently at FASS-Forward, a day-long celebration held at the Milton Keynes campus on 5 July. The event was simultaneously a launch event for the Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences, and … Continue reading

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Bach study afternoon with the OAE, 20 May

  OU academics Helen Coffey and Robert Samuels will present a study afternoon at Kings Place, London on 20 May as part of the department’s academic partnership with the Orchestra of the Age of Enlightenment (OAE). The event looks at the contexts and … Continue reading

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OU / Trinity Laban module reaches its Residential School

The Residential School for the Certificate The Practice of Music Making takes place this week, from Friday 7 to Wednesday 13 April. It is held at Trinity Laban Conservatoire, in the former Royal Naval College buildings, Greenwich, London. The Certificate, written … Continue reading

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Pre-concert talk: 20 February

Another event in the Department’s Academic Partnership with The Orchestra of the Age of Enlightenment takes place on Monday 20 February at The Southbank Centre, London. The pre-concert talk is part of a Study Day which will bring together undergraduate and postgraduate students … Continue reading

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Pre-concert event: Friday 10 February

A pre-concert talk, Méhul: The First Romantic takes place on Friday 10 February before a concert by the Orchestra of the Age of Enlightenment at St John’s, Smith Square, London. This is another event as part of the Department’s Academic Partnership … Continue reading

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Successful Rubbra Study Day at the RCM

A Study Day devoted to the music of British composer Edmund Rubbra, jointly organised by the Open University and the Royal College of Music, was held in London on Sunday 6 November. The Inner Parry Room at the RCM was … Continue reading

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Music Department to feature in BBC Proms interval talk

Robert Samuels, of the Music Department, will participate in a “Proms Extra” event this Friday, 12 August. He will be talking about Brahms’s Fourth Symphony with Laura Tunbridge of Oxford University, in a discussion presented by Andrew McGregor. Brahms’s Symphony … Continue reading

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How does a potato feature in music research?

This video, from the Arts Hub Live webcast event in June, features Robert Samuels (Music Department) and Jessica Hughes (Classics Department) taking part in the “Luck Dip” feature hosted by Karen Foley. This was a game in which the academics … Continue reading

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Video on studying music at the OU

This video, from the Student Hub Live webcast event in June, features Robert Samuels of the Music Department in conversation with Karen Foley about studying music with the OU, focussing especially on the second-level module Inside Music (A224). Student Hub Live: Inside Music … Continue reading

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