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OM Mag [4]:Layout 1 10/5/11 09:37 Page 1 Oxford ISSUE 1 | 2011 THE MAGAZINE FOR THE ALUMNI OF THE FACULTY OF MUSIC AT THE UNIVERSITY OF OXFORD Mitsuko Uchida Elizabeth Burgess at the Wigmore Schola Cantorum at 50 Alumni news Events OM Mag [4]:Layout 1 10/5/11 09:37 Page 2 Oxford THE MAGAZINE FOR THE ALUMNI OF THE FACULTY OF MUSIC AT THE UNIVERSITY OF OXFORD CONTENTS Current Postholders at the Faculty . .3 Turkish Delights . .4 Martin Stokes talks about the history behind his passion for Turkish music Operatic Fantasies . .5 Martyn Harry’s theatrical brain children Instrumental in its work . .6 FROM THE HEATHER PROFESSOR The Bate Collection, and in memoriam Hélène La Rue Welcome to the Faculty of Music alumni newsletter. At the end of this first decade of the new millennium, the Faculty faces exciting and challenging Mitsuko Uchida . .8 times. Consistently rated as the best university music department in the UK Fundraising Concert it was top of the Times, Guardian and Independent league tables in 2010 Winning at Wigmore . .10 the Faculty is a powerhouse of teaching, creative activity, and research it A profile of Elizabeth Burgess, cowinner headed the ‘power rankings’ for the 2008 Research Assessment Exercise. of the 2009 Wigmore Hall International Song Competition Over the past two years, six new academic postholders have joined the Schola’s Golden Year . .11 Faculty, with teaching and research interests in composition, medieval song, Celebrating 50 years with members past ethnomusicology, music and landscape, the psychology of music, and the and present sociology and anthropology of music significantly expanding the range and diversity of the Faculty’s intellectual and creative reach. And thanks to Singing Medicine . .12 some specially targeted money, the Faculty has carried out muchneeded Making children better through song renovations of its teaching, practising and rehearsal spaces, just now being Whatever happened to...? . .14 completed. The interior of the practice block at the back of the Faculty’s Oxford Musician catches up with eight building is unrecognisable, both visually and most importantly Faculty Alumni acoustically, and we have acquired an invaluable and muchneeded new ensemble room. Current student profiles . .16 There are much bigger building plans afoot for the future, however, with the Recordings and broadcasts . .18 University working on a very substantial programme of building for its Events . .20 humanities faculties on the site of the old Radcliffe Infirmary and Music wants to be part of that exciting new development. This is a big project to be tackling at a time when universities are facing financial pressures, but we’re determined to ensure that we have the buildings and resources to match our musical and intellectual ambitions. This newsletter is just one of the ways in which we want to stay in touch with you, our alumni: we hope you enjoy reading about what members of the Faculty newer and older have been doing, and would love to hear from you, or see you at one of our many events. Please do keep in touch! Edited by Dr Suzanne Aspden Compiled and produced by Michelle Anthony Best wishes, Designed by Baseline Arts Ltd The Editor would like to thank several current students for their assistance in preparing this magazine, particularly: Mary Anne Barclay, Miriam Figueiredo, David Lee, and Kathleen McDermott. Eric Clarke Photography: Michelle Anthony, Rob Judges, Heather Professor of Music John Cairns, Chris Lucas 2 . OXFORD MUSICIAN . 2011 OM Mag [4]:Layout 1 10/5/11 09:37 Page 3 STAFF Current postholders at the Faculty Dr SUZANNE ASPDEN Professor Dr ELIZABETH EVA LEACH BA, MMus (Victoria University of LAURENCE DREYFUS MA (Oxon), MMus (London), DPhil Wellington, NZ), DPhil (Oxon) BA (Yeshiva), PhD (Columbia), (Oxon), ACE (Bristol) University Lecturer; Fellow and Diplôme supérieur (Brussels), Hon University Lecturer; Fellow and Tutor in Music, Jesus College; RAM, FBA Tutor in Music, St. Hugh’s College; Lecturer at Lincoln College Professor of Music; Fellow and Tutor Lecturer at Exeter College in Music, Magdalen College Research interests in 18th- Research interests in songs, century opera, nationalism, and identity politics. Musicologist and viol player. Research interests in counterpoint, and singing with a particular focus on 18th- and 19th-century music, especially JS Bach and medieval secular lyrics in French. Other interests Professor GEORGINA BORN Wagner; English consort music; theories of analysis; include music and philosophy, ideas of musical BSc (UCL), PhD (UCL) and performance studies. meaning, music analysis (especially of pre-tonal Professor of Music and repertoires), music and gender, and music in Anthropology Professor literature. PETER FRANKLIN Anthropology and sociology of BA, DPhil (York) Dr OWEN REES music and culture; music and Professor of Music; Fellow and Tutor, MA, PhD (Cantab), ARCO mediation; social and cultural St Catherine’s College Reader in Music; Fellow, Tutor in theory; ethnography; music in the late 20th and 21st Music, and Organist, The Queen’s centuries; modernism and the avant-garde; cultural Research interests in late 19th- College; Senior Research Fellow, production and cultural institutions; public service and early 20th-century European Somerville College broadcasting, cultural and media policy, television; music and culture (especially opera and the interdisciplinarity. symphony), in modernism, critical theory and music in Research interests in music of the mass-entertainment film. 15th to 17th centuries, particularly in Spain, Portugal Professor ERIC CLARKE and England. BA, MA (Sussex), PhD (Exeter), FBA Dr DANIEL GRIMLEY Heather Professor of Music; MA, PhD (Cantab) Professor Professorial Fellow, Wadham University Lecturer, Fellow and Tutor ROBERT SAXTON College in music, Merton College; Lecturer at MA (Cantab), BMus, DMus (Oxon), University College FGSM Research interests in the University Lecturer; Fellow and psychology of music, particularly Research interests in music and Tutor in Music, Worcester College the psychology of performance, rhythm perception landscape in the late 19th- and and production, and the application of ecological early 20th-centuries; representations of nationalism in Composer. Research interests theory to music perception; analysis of pop music; Scandinavian music; critical musicology and analysis; include large-scale harmonic/structural issues in aesthetics and semiotics of music; history and analysis Elgar and imperialism; contemporary performance. music from the late-18th to the late-20th centuries, of recordings. and the relationship between tradition and Dr MARTYN HARRY contemporary compositional thought and practice. Professor JONATHAN CROSS BA (Cantab), PhD (City) BA (Bristol), PhD (London) University Lecturer; Fellow and Tutor, Dr MARTIN STOKES Professor of Musicology; Student St Anne’s College; Lecturer at St MA, DPhil (Oxon) and Tutor in Music, Christ Church Hilda’s College University Lecturer; Fellow and Tutor in Music, St John’s College Research interests in 20th- and Composition, contemporary 21st-century music, especially music, music theatre. Research interests in Stravinsky and Birtwistle; ethnomusicology and modernism; theory and analysis. Professor anthropology of music, the EDWARD HIGGINBOTTOM Middle East and Europe, social and cultural theory. Dr STEPHEN DARLINGTON MA, DPhil (Oxon), BMus (Cantab), MA, DMus (Oxon), FRCO FRCO Dr SUSAN WOLLENBERG University Lecturer and Choragus; University Lecturer; Organist, Fellow MA, DPhil (Oxon) Organist, Student and Tutor in and Tutor in Music, New College Reader in Music; Fellow and Tutor in Music, Christ Church Music, Lady Margaret Hall; Lecturer Research interests in French at Brasenose College Conductor, with research Baroque music (especially sacred vocal and keyboard), interests in early 20th-century and in Baroque performance practice. Research interests in 18th- and music. early 19th-century music, DANIEL HYDE keyboard music 1500–1830, performance practice, MA (Cantab), FRCO social history of English music, and the study of Informator Choristarum, Organist women composers. and Tutorial Fellow at Magdalen College; Lecturer in Music Freelance organist and conductor. Research interests include Baroque choral and organ performance practice; harmony, counterpoint and fugue studies. OXFORD MUSICIAN . 2011 . 3 OM Mag [4]:Layout 1 10/5/11 09:37 Page 4 FACULTY compromise, a half-way house, not the “real” Muslim world. I felt: “is this it? Is this the mystic East?” Now it’s precisely that betwixt and betweenness that’s most interesting to me.’ The book that came out in October 2010, The Republic of Love: Cultural Intimacy in Turkish Popular Music, demonstrates that interest, bringing together work he has been doing over the past ten years on music, popular culture, and politics. He describes it as ‘an attempt to write a cultural history of Turkey in the 20th century through its music’. Surprisingly, perhaps, it’s not something that’s been done before. Martin describes a kind of ‘cultural embarrassment’ in Turkey in Turkish writing about the kind of popular music he deals with—‘towering, Frank Sinatra- style cultural figures’, who nonetheless are neither traditional classical artists nor edgy contemporary rappers, and so have been neglected by Turkish scholars. Ethnomusicology and Oxford may not seem the likeliest pairing to some, but for Martin himself can hardly be described as Martin Stokes they’re a natural combination. Martin left the University of Chicago ‘betwixt