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University of Sheffield Events Community events Music, Drama and Entertainment Lectures, Seminars & Conferences Open Days, Exhibitions & Fairs Open Campus June – September 2013 It’s Back! Ideas Bazaar Wednesday 18 September University Of Sheffield Follow us on Twitter Events. @SheffUniWhatsOn Download this booklet at: www.sheffield.ac.uk/whatson/opencampus All the events we know about at the time of printing are listed in this booklet, but new events are added daily to the What’s On web pages at: www.sheffield.ac.uk/whatson Ideas Bazaar. Wednesday 18 September, 11.00am – 4.00pm Firth Court, Western Bank, S10 2TN We are delighted to announce the What’s Next? 2nd Ideas Bazaar to take place at the University of Sheffield If you want to take part and meet your future partner, register via the webpage at: www.sheffield.ac.uk/ideasbazaar UC Find Your Perfect Partner E: [email protected], T: 0114 222 5322 Ideas Bazaar is where academics and artists After the Ideas Bazaar has taken place we will meet and collaborate. The day is hosted by put further details of how to apply for funding international performer and star of BBC Radio on the website at the end of October, and 4, Christopher Green. Find your perfect partner applications for projects will be welcomed for projects that will be showcased at the 2nd from October-December 2013. Notification of Festival of the Mind in 2014. successful applications will be made by the end of February 2014. Last year academics from such diverse disciplines as Nanotechnology, English, We will continue to provide further information Architecture, Psychology and Biomedical about the Festival of the Mind 2014, including the Science teamed up with artists, poets, various themes we wish to support, again on the magicians and musicians from Sheffield to website, and also from the University’s Twitter create many unique projects. feeds - #ideasbazaar - so please be sure to follow @sheffielduni or @sheffuniwhatson for updates. Kismet, Anthony Bennett, 2010 FESTIVAL OF THE MIND - THE MOBILE UNIVERSITY FRIDAY 27-SUNDAY 29 SEPTEMBER This year the Festival of the Mind team are taking the research, activities, exhibitions and demonstrations out to you! The Mobile University is a vintage bus full of academics and activities that will stop off at several locations in the city centre including Barkers Pool, providing free and exciting events for all. For further information contact the Public Engagement Team, E: [email protected] www.sheffield.ac.uk/publicengagement The Mobile University Music Music, Drama and Entertainment DEPARTMENT OF MUSIC SPRING/SUMMER CONCERTS Classical – World – Jazz • Lunchtime – Rush-Hour – Evening • Affordable –Eclectic – ENLIGHTENING The Concert Series at The University of Sheffield aspires to produce a varied programme of engaging and high quality musical events in an informal environment. Our concerts are aimed towards diverse audiences at a low cost. General Enquiries: T: 0114 222 0468 E: [email protected] Find us on Facebook: For detailed programme information www.facebook.com/tuosconcerts and to request a brochure please visit: www.sheffield.ac.uk/concerts Follow us on Twitter: Booking: www.twitter.com/tuosconcerts Sheffield Arena Ticket Shop, T: 0114 256 5567 View videos on YouTube: Or online at: www.sheffield.ac.uk/concerts www.youtube.com/tuosconcerts A BOY WAS BORN Britten on Aldeburgh Beach A FESTIVAL OF MUSIC CELEBRATING 100 YEARS OF BENJAMIN BRITTEN Generously supported by The University of Sheffield Arts Enterprise and the Britten- Pears Foundation. More on Arts Enterprise on page 9. The composer Benjamin Britten worked prolifically in almost every genre. His mastery of the orchestra, his brilliant and versatile approach to musical drama, his ingenuity and sensitivity in the marriage The festival will promote city in this year long Sheffield of music and text in song, and better understanding of his life celebration of music, culture his commitment to making and work as a composer and and Benjamin Britten. musical innovator, in addition music accessible to all by For more information, booking to examining the broader composing for amateurs and and to request a festival context of arts and culture in children has ensured Britten’s brochure please visit: the 20th Century. music still continues to enthral www.aboywasborn.co.uk and capture the imagination of Encompassing talks, concerts, audiences around the world. films, and musical theatre A Boy Was Born aims to productions, internationally encourage performance of acclaimed visiting artists Britten’s music throughout perform alongside community www.sheffield.ac.uk/ the 2013 Centenary year. musical organisations in the artsenterprise Music, Drama and EntertainmentSpecial Events –– 01 Jenny Agutter and Sheffield Philharmonic Orchestra BRITTEN: YOUNG PERSON’S GUIDE TO THE ORCHESTRA + MUSIC FROM FILM & TV INCLUDING DR WHO, JAMES BOND, WALLACE AND GROMIT AND AUSTIN POWERS SATURDAY 1 JUNE, 6.00pm Victoria Hall, Norfolk Street, S1 2JB Ten years after the premiere of Prokofiev’s ‘Peter and the Wolf’, Britten was asked to compose music for a short educational film introducing the instruments of the With Pears in Brooklyn orchestra. Britten was greatly with Peter Pears. An interest depiction of the Tudor court inspired by the music of Henry in arranging these songs would and the tension between affairs Purcell and used the hornpipe be lifelong, and Britten made of state and affairs of the from Purcell’s ‘Abdelazer’ (The six volumes of songs in total, heart. Focusing on Elizabeth’s Moor’s Revenge) as a theme including English, Scottish, Irish relationship with the young Earl for a set of variations. Britten and French folk songs. of Essex, Gloriana captures the demonstrates the capabilities dichotomy between the public of each family of instruments Albion’s unique approach image of the Virgin Queen and in the orchestra, starting with to performance celebrates her seething personal feelings. the woodwind section, moving Britten’s song repertoire from down to the brass and strings a refreshing angle. Alongside Tickets £12.50, £10.50 and then the percussion. Each brand-new arrangements (concessions/students) group is explored through a of folksongs popularised by set of variations, and the work Britten, the concert features concludes with a darting fugue, solo repertoire by Britten and FRIDAY 28 JUNE, 1.00pm climaxing with the original his contemporaries. Upper Chapel, Norfolk Street, theme majestically played Tickets £10, £5 (students, S1 2JD on the brass. under 18s) Stewart Campbell (tenor) Tickets £10, £8 (unwaged), Jonathan Gooing (piano) £4 (students/children) Royal Opera House live Britten: cinema broadcast Canticle IV, Op86 ALBION - BRITTEN AND BRITTEN: GLORIANA Janácek: FOLKSONG MONDAY 24 JUNE, 7.15pm The Diary of one who Disappeared SATURDAY 15 JUNE, 7.30pm Odeon Cinema, Arundel Gate Tippett: The Heart’s Assurance Holy Trinity Church, Grove S1 1DL Tickets: Admission is free and Road, Millhouses, S7 2GY Gloriana was first performed tickets are not required It was while Britten was in as part of the 1953 Coronation Janácek composed this epic America that he first arranged Celebrations for Queen song cycle shortly after a series traditional folksongs, perhaps Elizabeth II. In a quintessentially of anonymous poems appeared as a method for the homesick English and period sound- in the local newspaper about composer to connect to his world Britten’s portrait of a young farm boy who fell in English roots but also provide the public and private faces love with a gypsy girl and left lighter repertoire for his recitals of Elizabeth I is a brilliant his family for them. The theme 02 –– Music, Drama and Entertainment of relinquishing one’s life angels in their various forms. programme aimed at bringing Music, Drama and Entertainment and embarking on new paths The central aria A thousand, singing back into the heart of can also be seen in Britten’s thousand gleaming fires was every primary school child’s canticle IV. T S Eliot’s poem the first music that Britten life. describes the journey of the composed with Peter Pears’ www.sheffieldcathedral.org/ three kings to Bethlehem, but voice in mind following their music/sing-music-community- focuses on the day-to-day recent union in America. outreach-programme difficulties of the journey, Tickets £14, £11 (concessions), the cold, the lack of shelter £5 (students/under 16’s) and unfriendly town folk, ABBEYDALE SINGERS accompanied by Britten’s SATURDAY 13 JULY, 7.30pm brilliantly graphic piano SING! - EMIL AND THE St John’s Church, Ranmoor accompaniment where we DETECTIVES can hear every footstep of Park Road, S10 3GX the journey. FRIDAY 5 JULY, 5.30pm Britten: Firth Hall, Firth Court, Commissioned by Peter Pears, Hymn to St Cecilia, Op27 Western Bank, S10 2TN Michael Tippett’s The Heart’s Britten: assurance is an impassioned Britten was committed to Five Flower Songs, Op47 response by the composer composing music for amateur to the destruction of World musicians and children, music Britten: Old Joe has Gone War II. Tippett sets highly that would be accessible to Fishing (from Peter Grimes) evocative poetry by Alun Lewis the masses. Operatic works The Hymn to St Cecilia was and Sydney Keyes, two men for children include Let’s composed at a difficult time who themselves died tragically Make an Opera, Noye’s Fludde for Britten. When war broke young during the war. This and The Little Sweep have out in September 1939 Britten remarkable marriage of music had an inspirational effect on and Pears wanted to return to and text sees formidable piano generations of young people England, but were instructed writing accompany Tippett’s since. Emil and The Detectives that they’d be more valuable if unforgettable vocal lines. was a story Britten was fond they stayed in the States and of as a child and he had always increased sympathy for Britain intended to write a piece there.
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