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REGISTRATION OPEN!

The Listening Experience Database project conference 2018 The experience of listening to music: methodologies, identities, histories 6-7 March 2018, The Open University, Milton Keynes, UK The Listening Experience Database project team is pleased to announce that registration is open for … Continue reading

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Liz Lane featured on Open University Choir Concert

On Thursday 23 November at 1 pm, the Open University Choir will present the world première of A different kind of urban, a work for choir, brass ensemble, timpani and percussion by Open University Associate Lecturer Liz Lane, with lyrics by Milton … 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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Research seminar on electronic music practice, Leeds University

Lecturer Sean Williams will be giving a seminar entitled Interpretation and Performance Practice in early electronic music  on Thursday 23rd March, 4:30 pm in Lecture Theatre 1 in the Music Department at the University of Leeds. Based on his recent … Continue reading

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“Stimmung” by Karlheinz Stockhausen: concert, 25th February

If you’re in the Northeast this weekend you might have a look at the programme for the Musicon Festival in Durham. I’ll be doing the sound projection for a performance of Stockhausen’s “Stimmung” – a piece from 1968 featuring six … 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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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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Tim Wheeler and Catherine Bell honoured by the Open University

On Friday, 21 October, I was delighted to represent Music at the OU degree ceremony at Waterfront Hall in Belfast, where singer-songwriter and Alzheimer’s campaigner Tim Wheeler was presented with the award of Doctor of the University for his exceptional … 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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