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2024-04-22 10:00:00
In 2000, writer, curator, and collector John Corbett found himself on his hands and knees digging through stacks of ephemera.. The post appeared first on I CARE IF YOU LISTEN.
2024-03-01 08:33:00
Moon Landing: composer Helen Caddick and textile artist Margo Selby collaborate on an immersive cross-genre piece for Collect 2024
Margo Selby's Moon Landing hanging in the Stamp stairwell at Somerset House for Collect 2024Last night (29 February 2024) we were at Collect, the Crafts Council's international fair for contemporary craft and design at Somerset House, currently celebrating its 20th anniversary. A visual and tactile feast, one work stood out for its cross-genre use of music. Moon Landing by textile artist and designer Margo Selby is a 16m long woven art-work (presented at Collect by Cynthia Corbett Gallery) that is presented hanging down the centre of the historic Stamp Staircase. The project is a cross-genre collaboration as Selby's weaving (her first site-specific installation) is inspired by a new piece by composer Helen Caddick on 29 February there were performances of Caddick's piece, with the composer conducting, beneath the art work.Moon Landing: Helen Caddick & musicians in the stairwell beneath Margo Selby's pieceCaddick and Selby worked together for over a year on […]
2024-02-26 14:02:00
A Vast Obscurity: SongEasel bringings song celebrations to South East London including Gabriel Fauré's centenary
From April to June 2024, Jocelyn Freeman's SongEasel is celebrating a whole clutch of anniversaries in a series of concerts across South East London featuring performers including Roderick Williams, Mark Padmore and Elin Manahan Thomas. Spreading her net widely, a delighting in discovering that the word 'obscurity' can mean a collective noun for a group of poets, pianist Jocelyn Freeman's series A Vast Obscurity brings together the 460th anniversary of Shakespeare’s birth, the bicentenary of Lord Byron’s death and 65th birthday of Dr. Joseph Spence, plus Gabriel Fauré's centenary.Things commence on 11 April at St. George the Martyr, Borough with baritone Roderick Williams, pianist Iain Burnside and double bass player Leon Bosch in The Land of Lost Content with music by Butterworth, Burleigh, Clarke, Beach, and McLachlan. Gabriel Fauré's centenary is celebrated with a pair of concerts, the 1893 version of the Requiem with Elin Manahan Thomas (soprano), Malachy Frame (baritone) and The Corbett Consort at St Mark's Church, Kennington on 11 May, then Gwilym […]
2024-02-12 07:56:00
Magnum Opus: Britten Sinfonia's composer development scheme showcases work from 2023 composers David John Roche, Daniel Soley and Crystalla Serghiou
[…] a composer, singer, songwriter, pianist and conductor who works across contemporary classical music, jazz, pop, opera and traditional Greek-Cypriot music. Her new work, The Stepford Wife, is written for the powerful and expressive jazz singer, Emma Smith. Daniel Soley is a composer, experimental sound artist and producer whose eclectic work has ranged from orchestral scores to music and sound design for public installations in the Middle East. His new accordion concerto has been written for Ryan Corbett, the first accordionist to be selected to be a BBC Radio 3 New Generation Artist. And the three composers selected for Magnum Opus 2024 comprise Alex Groves, Eden Lonsdale and Anibal Vidal, who’ll write new works for septet to be premièred London’s Milton Court (opposite Barbican Centre) on Tuesday 9 April (6.00pm, see Barbican website) while also choosing chamber pieces for their works to be paired with. They’ll be supported by programme directors, Dani Howard and […]
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