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2024-02-19 08:51:00
As it enters its second decade, Tectonics Glasgow is still blurring boundaries of new and experimental music
The BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra's Tectonics Glasgow festival, co-curators Ilan Volkov and Alasdair Campbell, is entering is second decade with the 2024 festival on 4 and 5 May 2024. This year's festival continues to blur boundaries between musical genres with artists including vocal and movement artist Elaine Mitchener reflecting and responding to the circumstances which gave birth to the centuries-old hymn Amazing Grace and its contemporary resonances; Koichi Makigami, leader of a Japanese experimental rock band, performing with the legendary drummer Roger Turner; New York based vocalist Ka Baird combining their live performance within minimalistic, visceral composition and Japanese improviser, recorder player Eiko Yamada. Sarah-Jane Summers (fiddle) and Juhani Silvola (guitar) will interweave Scottish traditional music with Scandinavian influences alongside the BBC SSO strings; and Edinburgh-based artists Euan Currie and Marlo De Lara present a live improvisation drawing on voices, electronics and field recordings.Ilan Volkov conducts the BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra in three […]
2024-02-14 07:56:00
Young Composers 5: the latest iteration of the National Youth Choir's Young Composers scheme challenge & stimulate
[…] the young composers have all been experimenting, perhaps with an over-fondness for texture over structure, but certainly the young singers of the choir and the ensemble have responded with wonderfully engaged performances.Millicent B James - Children of the ForestWill Harmer - Three MadrigalsEmily Hazrati - One Thousand ThreadsAlex Tay - RainFlow’rsWill Harmer - FireworksAlex Tay - DEEP (HUH?!)Emily Hazrati - khãné (meditations on home)Millicent B James - Finding Your HomeNational Youth Choir Fellowship Ensemble (Ailsa Campbell & Emily Varney, soprano, Sarina Rattan & Olivia Shotton, alto, Timothy Peters & Chris O’Leary, tenor, Antonio Oliveira & Jason Ching, bass)National Youth ChoirEmily Dickens (conductor)Ben Parry (conductor)Recorded at Royal Academy of Music on 2 September, 2023, & School Farm Studios on 14 October, 2023NMC Records NMC DL3056 1CD [43:07]Never miss out on future posts by following usThe blog is free, but I'd be delighted if you were to show your appreciation by buying me a coffee.Elsewhere on this blogDirect, […]
2023-12-08 13:00:46
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2023-12-05 07:54:00
“If we consider again just how much money the music sector brings into the economy each year, it’s remarkable our government would not want to invest generously in its future.”
[…] in and outside our education system, and he called upon specific MPs who have benefited from a musical education or showed enjoyment of the arts, including Sir Keir Starmer, Thangam Debbonaire, Barbara Keeley, Chris Bryant and Kevin Brennan, to share concrete plans for supporting arts opportunities.“For the first time in decades, we have a loud and supportive group of MPs who are passionate about the arts.”Members of Tewit Band and Tewit Youth Band (Photo: Lorne Campbell)When arts subjects are being subjected to more and more Government cuts, brass bands continue to offer both training and inspiration for performers of all ages and social backgrounds and act as a vital conduit for our professional music sector.Higgins comes from a long lineage of working-class brass band musicians dating back to 1895 and his passion for this heritage has resulted in a number of vigorous, daring works for brass. His biggest and most […]
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