Category Archives: Events

Music Department to feature in BBC Proms interval talk

Posted on August 7, 2016 by Robert Samuels

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?

Posted on July 22, 2016 by Robert Samuels

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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Pre-concert event for the OAE

Posted on April 7, 2016 by Robert Samuels

The Music Department’s partner ensemble, The Orchestra of the Age of Enlightenment, continues its Southbank Centre season, and its exploration of nineteenth-century repertoire, with a performance on Tuesday 12 April of Mahler’s Second Symphony, the “Resurrection”. Once again, the OU will … Continue reading →

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OU Music Department featured in OAE’s Southbank Centre weekend

Posted on January 25, 2016 by Robert Samuels

On Saturday 6 February at the Royal Festival Hall, The Orchestra of the Age of Enlightenment presents a programme conducted by Marin Alsop, featuring two of Schumann’s last works for large orchestra, the ‘Rhenish’ Symphony and the Violin Concerto (suppressed … Continue reading →

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Book Launch for OU 2011 PhD graduate

Posted on November 13, 2015 by Robert Samuels

Miguel de Cervantes Award Lectures Monday 23rd November @ 6.30 p.m. at Instituto Cervantes 102 Eaton Square, London SW1W 9AN Lecture 6 Alejo Carpentier: Blurring Genres and launch of the book Alejo Carpentier and the Musical Text by Dr Katia … Continue reading →

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UPDATED ‘The Hidden Musicians revisited conference’, Milton Keynes, 11-12 January 2016

Posted on November 5, 2015 by Catherine Tackley

We are delighted to reveal the provisional programme for ‘The Hidden Musicians revisited’ a conference organised by the Music Department at The Open University. The programme includes papers, panels and roundtables covering wide spectrum of musical style and practice. It features … Continue reading →

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Department Research Day – 4 November 2015

Posted on October 21, 2015 by Helen Coffey

Here is the programme for the Music Department’s Research Day which will take place on 4 November in the OU’s Music Studio at Walton Hall: 10:30  Coffee and Welcome 11:00  Samantha Bassler – The London Madrigal Society and the Early … Continue reading →

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Registration open for ‘Listening to music: people, practices and experiences’

Posted on July 27, 2015 by Helen Barlow

24-25 October 2015, the Royal College of Music, London, UK The conference is held as part of our collaborative AHRC-funded Listening Experience Database (LED) Project www.open.ac.uk/Arts/LED ,which also involves the English Department, KMi and the Royal College of Music. The keynote speaker will … Continue reading →

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Avid for Ovid

Posted on June 1, 2015 by Ben Winters

Avid for Ovid who specialise in creating solo dance performance based on Ovid’s Metamorphoses will be giving a free performance on Wednesday, 3 June, 5.30-6.30pm, at the Jacqueline du Pré Building, St Hilda’s College, Oxford. Attendance is free, but please … Continue reading →

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Digital Music Genres Talk

Posted on April 27, 2015 by Ben Winters

The OU’s Centre for Research in Computing will be hosting a talk by Christopher Haworth (Oxford University) on 21 May 2015, entitled ‘Participation Over Belonging: Using Digital Methods to Analyse Digital Music Genres’. Further details can be found here.

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