Author Archives: Ben Winters

About Ben Winters

Ben Winters is a Senior Lecturer in Music.

Allegri String Quartet at the OU

Next Wednesday (26 September), the Church at Walton Hall will play host to the internationally-renowned Allegri String Quartet in a lunchtime concert featuring works by Schubert, Richard Strauss, and Anthony Payne. The concert begins at 1pm and is expected to … Continue reading

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The Music of Fantasy Cinema

A new book has been published by Equinox Press in their ‘Genre, Music, and Sound’ series called The Music of Fantasy Cinema. Edited by Janet K. Halfyard, it features a chapter by Ben Winters about Bruckner allusions in John Williams’s … Continue reading

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New issue of ‘Music, Sound, and the Moving Image’

A new issue of Music, Sound, and the Moving Image has just been published by Liverpool University Press. Devoted to ‘Film Music and Narrative’ it has been edited by OU Music Lecturer Ben Winters, and features articles by scholars of … Continue reading

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IMS Music and Media Study Group

Ben Winters has just returned from the University of Turin, where he gave a paper entitled ‘Rehearing Classical Hollywood: Concert Scenes and the Self-Referential Score’ at the Music and Media 4th Study Group Conference (in association with the International Musicological … Continue reading

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Trevor Herbert to speak at IMS congress

Professor Trevor Herbert will give the lead paper in a session titled ‘The Trumpet and Power’ at the International Musicological Society Congress in Rome in July. Also in July he will give a paper at the Historic Brass Society Conference … Continue reading

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Music, Sound, and Filmmakers: Sonic Style in Cinema

A new book has been published by Routledge in their Music and Screen Media Series called Music, Sound, and Filmmakers: Sonic Style in Cinema. Edited by James Wierzbicki, it features a chapter by OU Music Lecturer Ben Winters about the films of Wes … Continue reading

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“Symphony” wins again….

To mark their 20th year, the Voice of the Listener & Viewer Awards for Excellence in Broadcasting have created a new VLV Multiplatform Award. The 2011 prize winner has been announced as Symphony – “for so interestingly and entertainingly exploring the classical … Continue reading

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New article in Cambridge Opera Journal by Ben Winters

Music department lecturer Ben Winters has just published a new article in the latest issue of the Cambridge Opera Journal (vol. 23 issue 1-2) entitled ‘Strangling blondes: nineteenth-century femininity and Korngold’s Die tote Stadt’ http://journals.cambridge.org/action/displayIssue?jid=OPR&volumeId=23&issueId=1-2

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A (belated!) welcome to Dr Helen Green

The Open University Music Department is pleased to welcome Dr Helen Green to her new role as Lecturer in Music. Helen took up her position in January but is no stranger to the OU or the Music Department, having worked … Continue reading

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Welcome to Drs Naomi Barker and Ruth Herbert

Today we welcome Dr Naomi Barker and Dr Ruth Herbert, two experienced associate lecturers who have been appointed as 0.4 lecturers to help maintain our modules during a period in which the department is short staffed. Naomi is currently working on the management … Continue reading

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