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Birmingham Contemporary Music Group Birmingham Contemporary Music Group (BCMG) is presenting Music and Maths, a one-day festival at Symphony Hall, CBSO Centre and The Exchange, Birmingham on 29 May 2022, devoted to the beauty of maths within music,  marking the centenary of music theorist Iannis Xenakis. The are two concerts from BCMG, a family drop-in workshop and talks from the University of Birmingham and PRiSM (Royal Northern College of Music). Xenakis' music will be performed alongside especially commissioned visuals created by mathematician Marcus de Sautoy and animator Simon Russell. There are also world premiere performances by Emily Howard and Samantha Fernando. The festival marks the centenary of Iannis Xenakis, the music theorist, architect, performance director and engineer. In the 1950s, Iannis Xenakis was employed in Le Corbusier’s offices for architecture and was viewed as an outsider by many of his peers for his orchestral, vocal and electronic […]

[…] Kanneh-Mason and Lise Davidsen, with the programme featuring a world première by fast-rising British composer, James B. Wilson.  The 2022 Proms also marks the 150th anniversary of Ralph Vaughan Williams’s birth. Therefore, popular ‘favourites’ such as the soaring The Lark Ascending and the haunting Tallis-inspired Fantasia will take their place alongside the visceral Fourth Symphony and the rarely heard concertos for oboe and tuba.   Other composer anniversaries being honoured this year include César Franck at 200, Iannis Xenakis at 100 and George Walker at 100 as well as British composer, Doreen Carwithen, at 100, too, thus forming part of the Proms’ ongoing initiative to celebrate and showcase female pioneers from the past. The 2022 Proms also shines a spotlight on the extraordinary musical life of Ethel Smyth, whose March of the Women was premièred at the Royal Albert Hall in 1911 and became the anthem of the Suffragette movement.   David Pickard, Director, BBC […]

[…] Sally Beamish, Hannah Eisendle, Danny Elfman, Cheryl Frances-Hoad, Philip Glass, Hildur Gdnadottir, Gavin Higgins, Betsy Jolas, Matthew Kaner, Nicole Lizee, Missy Mazzoli, Cassandra Miller, Marius Neset, Kaija Saariaho, Anna Thorvaldsdottir, Mark-Anthony Turnage, Errollyn Wallen, Jennifer Walshe, and James B Wilson, and other contemporary composers featured include Harrison Birtwistle, Valerie Coleman, Jessica Curry, Ligeti, James MacMIllan, Wynton Marsalis, Kow Otani, Jim Root, Caroline Shaw, Yoko Simomura, Huw Watkins, Jimmy Webb, Judith Weir, Philip Wilby, and Iannis Xenakis. Besides the regular schedule of performances at the Royal Albert Hall, there are proms in Battersea, Belfast, Truro, Bristol, Cardiff, Liverpool, Birmingham, Glasgow and Sage Gateshead as well as at Printworks There is much more besides, and Tony will be giving his own personal selection tomorrow. Full details from the BBC Proms website.