The next OU Music Research Day will take place on 30 April 2019 in the OU’s London Office. The provisional programme is as follows:
10:30 Coffee
11:00 Natalie Burton – Structural pluralism in Gerald Finzi’s Earth and Air and Rain
11:30 Michael Busk – Manchester’s First Nineteenth-Century Musical Festival – 1828
12:00 Chris Grey – Musical beauty, God and the Church: historical-ecclesiological contexts
12:30 Lunch
13:30 Ann Grindley – Sites of Empowerment: Fin de Siècle Salon Culture and the Music of Cécile Chaminade
14:00 Paul Britten – Quadrille Bands and musical life in 19th-century Brighton
14:30 Break
15:00 Tristan Harkcom – ‘The composer of Rienzi’ and ‘the Dresden Bloodbath’
15:30 Martyn Strachan – The Orchestra as an Indicator of Style in Sullivan’s Music
16:00 Coffee
To register, please contact Jacquie Green on FASS-ACEM-Music@open.ac.uk by Thursday 18th April. Please advise Jacquie of any dietary requirements.