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2024-04-06 08:42:00
Spell Book, Witch & Stone Fruit: composer Freya Waley-Cohen on the power of ritual and spells
[…] teacher learned that a good way to keep her attention was to let her bring along the things that she had written down, and also encourage her to improvise. By her early teenage years, she realised that she liked improvising and composing.She studied music at Cambridge University, doing a general music degree but focusing on composition. She counts her teachers as significant influences, Oliver Knussen and, at the Royal Academy of Music, the late Simon Bainbridge. She names Olivier Messiaen as her favourite composer, but also mentions George Crumb for his celestial vision of the world, though she admits that she is not as impractical or brave as he is. She also admires great melodists like Mozart and Schubert, and she always ends up going back to Bach, doodling through Bach's chorales to get her brain in order.When I ask about heroes, she comments that she is uncomfortable with the […]
2023-12-05 09:40:00
Birdsong, audience participation and a new Composer in Residence: the London Philharmonic Orchestra's new chamber music series at St John's Waterloo
[…] that both serve.The series opens on 17 January 2024 with John Luther Adams' songbirdsongs, a work based on Adams' own observations and studies of bird songs, scoring them for various ensembles of piccolos and ocarinas, and rather than having a fixed score, each musician performs their part from the composer’s instructions.On 7 February the programme focuses on Duke Ellington, Miles Davis and George Gershwin with songs by Duke Ellington arranged by David Schiff for clarinet and string quartet, Simon Bainbridge’s tribute to Miles Davis, For Miles, and Carl Davis' arrangements of Gershwin for clarinet and strings. There will also be two funk soul songs, by Chaka Khan and Stevie Wonder, arranged for four bassoons.12 March sees the audience invited to participate, with Alex Ho's Breathe and Draw for sinfonietta, two conductors and audience participation, and Ryan Carter's Concerto Molto Grosso for audience and orchestra, and Ligeti's Poème symphonique for 100 metronomes. Alex Ho is an alumnus of the […]
2023-11-17 05:00:00
Bainbridge, Lloyd, Simpson, Vaughan Williams, Welsh Favourites & Tuba Concertos (Horenstein, Penny, Tilson Thomas et al)
Simon Bainbridge (1952-2021) - Orchestral Works:01 Fantasia for Double Orchestra * (1984) [18'19]02 - 03 Viola Concerto (1976) ^ [27'32]04 Concertante in moto perpetuo (1983) ~ [7'56]BBC Symphony Orchestra conducted by Simon Bainbridge *; Walter Trampler-viola, London Sinfonietta conducted by Michael Tilson Thomas ^; Composers Ensemble conducted by Simon Bainbridge (Nicholas Daniel- oboe, Kathryn Lukas- flute, Joy Farrall- clarinet, Nigel Black- horn, Catherine Edwards- piano, Jacqueline Shave & Patrick Kiernan- violins, Katie Wilkinson- viola, Robert Irvine- cello, Neil Tarlton- double bass) ~NMC NMCD126 [recorded May 1982^, December 1989* and March 1990~; originally issued on CD by Murray Khouri's Continuum label in 1990, reissued by NMC in 2006][digital download; flacs, cover, booklet and inlay scans]Recording venues: Barking Town Hall*, Watford Town Hall^, Rosslyn Hill Chapel, Hampstead, LondonRecording engineers: Mike Skeet *~ and Bob Auger^; Producers: Murray Khouri*, Antony Hodgson^, Simon Bainbridge & Nicholas Daniel~November Journeys:01 Paul Drayton (1944-): Tom Pellow's March [2'17]02 […]
2021-11-06 09:49:35
Finding her own way: I chat to cellist Clare O'Connell about her innovative concert series in Berkhamsted, Behind the Mirror
[…] of burn-outs whilst she was at college. But there were also lots of nerdy conversations with other cellists, and she comments that we teach ourselves in the end. There can be a lot of mysticism in leaning classical music, but no-one really knows what 'good' is and you need a lot of self belief, otherwise you find yourself wading through a mist. At music college she took a contemporary music course, led by composer Simon Bainbridge (1952-2021). This was the 1990s, there was no Sibelius software to easily create scores and parts, instead there were lots of bits of paper. Everyone else hated the course but she loved it, she loved the direct access that music gave her. With contemporary music it felt as if you simply read what was on the paper and did it. Whereas with the music of Mozart and Beethoven, performances are loaded with tradition. For Clare, […]
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