DOCSLIB.ORG

Interviewing the Interviewer Sir Michael Parkinson Tells Upbeat Why He’S Supporting the RCM

Total Page：16

File Type：pdf, Size：1020Kb

Download full-text PDF Read full-text
Interviewing the Interviewer Sir Michael Parkinson Tells Upbeat Why He’S Supporting the RCM The Magazine for the Royal College of MusicI Spring 2010 Interviewing the Interviewer Sir Michael Parkinson tells Upbeat why he’s supporting the RCM What’s inside... Welcome to upbeat… Higher education funding – or rather, the lack of it – has been hitting the headlines repeatedly in recent months. So how will this damage the hopes of Contents current and future RCM students? Well, hopefully it won’t at all, as the RCM has dramatically stepped up its own fundraising efforts to try to plug the gap. 4 In the news This issue of Upbeat focuses on just a few of the ways we’re trying to ensure Updating you on recent that current and future generations of RCM students can enjoy the same high College activities, including award successes and recent level of teaching and support as their illustrious predecessors. collaborations On page 9 you can meet the RCM’s new fundraising team. Then on pages 9 New developments 10-11 you can hear from Sir Michael Parkinson, who we’re delighted to say has An introduction to the RCM’s new offered his wholehearted support to the RCM. He explains why he was moved Development team to become the face of the new improved RCM Friends scheme, and spills the beans on his own performing career! On pages 12-13 you can take a peek 10 Sir Michael Parkinson backstage at the RCM International Opera School, to find out how we’re raising Upbeat chats to the master of the funds for this particularly intensive (and expensive!) area of study. Finally, on interview about his love of music pages 14-15 you can read about a few of the ways that our supporters provide and his involvement with the RCM vital support for our students. 12 Behind the scenes Of course as usual, the rest of Upbeat is full of news from RCM staff, students A look at the RCM International Opera School and some of its key and alumni, who it seems have been busier than ever keeping our minds off all supporters this financial doom and gloom, and entertaining us in a great variety of ways! 14 How to support us We are always keen to hear from students and staff past and present, so if you More about how you can get have anything you’d like us to feature in the next issue of Upbeat, send your involved and help support the news and pictures in to [email protected] by 10 May 2010. work of the RCM NB: Please note that we cannot guarantee to include everything we receive and that we 16 Student notes reserve the right to edit submissions. Recent success stories from our talented students 18 Staff notes The latest news from RCM staff 20 Alumni notes Updates from RCM graduates 22 Births, marriages and obituaries Soirée d’Or 2009 Front cover – Sir Michael Parkinson, Honorary Patron of the new RCM Friends scheme. Inside front cover – Images from a recent visit by Vladimir Jurowski, who directed RCM orchestras as part of the Alfred Schnittke: Between Two Worlds festival. Soirée d’Or 2009 Inside back cover – Marvin Stamm performing with the RCM Big Band in November. 3 In the news... and was played for the first time in a this dodgasted thing if you laugh?’ I went Elgar’s trombone performance of his piece The Dream of out of the room as quickly as I could and Gerontius at the Royal Festival Hall. sat on the stairs, clinging to the banisters till the pain eased, but it was no good. I The trombone’s link to the composer couldn’t stop there as he went on making and its discovery make a compelling comic noises, so I went downstairs out of story which Sue Addison has uncovered ear-shot for a bit.” Photograph: Joe Plommer Photograph: - including the fact that Elgar didn’t play it very well. Elgar gave the trombone to the YMCA’s Music Section in 1918 after they She says: “Elgar began to learn the appealed for instruments to send to trombone at the age of 43. In 1900 when British troops to raise morale. Elgar, then he was writing Gerontius, he wrote to his 63, wrote: “This trombone has clinging publisher ‘PS I’m learning the trombone…’ to it happy memories of my youthful and drew a sketch of himself playing music-making. But why should I keep it it. He later said he wasn’t sure whether for sentiment when the ‘boys’ can put it he was worse on the typewriter or the to use?” trombone, exclaiming ‘… don’t ask me to play the latter’.” The trombone was ‘missing in action’ Sue Addison with Elgar’s trombone until it was found at the Ealing Branch Elgar’s friend Dora Penny wrote of a visit of the YMCA in 1934, following adverts November 2009 saw the first outing to the composer: “On one occasion he in national newspapers to locate it and of Edward Elgar’s trombone since the got up and fetched a trombone that was place it in a national collection. The composer’s death in 1934. standing in a corner and began trying to YMCA then donated the trombone to play passages in the score. He didn’t do it the Royal College of Music. The instrument, which can usually be very well and often played a note higher found in the Royal College of Music’s or lower than the one he wanted… and The OAE’s performance ofGerontius Museum of Instruments, was loaned as he swore every time that happened was a rare opportunity to hear the piece out in exceptional circumstances to the I got into such a state of hysterics that I performed on original instruments Orchestra of the Age of Enlightenment’s didn’t know what to do. Then he turned with the same pitch and the same sized Principal Trombone, Sue Addison, on me: ‘How can you expect me to play orchestra Elgar would have used. The RCM Museum doubles up The Royal College of Music’sMuseum The Independent on Sunday named the of Instruments has doubled its RCM Museum of Instruments as one opening hours, offering more people of the top 20 heritage sites in ‘Secret the chance to see one of the country’s Britain’, and described it as “The definitive most important collections of musical place in Britain to see the history of music- instruments and portraits. making”. Treasures of the collection include the clavicytherium, the world’s The museum will now be open during oldest strung keyboard instrument, and College term time from 11.30am to Hardy’s famous portrait of Haydn. 4.30pm from Tuesday to Friday. across the Commonwealth. The highly Victory at the distinguished jury for the inaugural competition included Maria Ewing, VOBOs Grace Bumbry and Julian Joseph. Student Peter Brathwaite has won the £10,000 Samuel Coleridge Taylor Award Peter, who studies at the RCM’s at the Black British Classical Foundation International Opera School, won the VOBO (Voice of Black Opera) awards. award for the best performance of an opera aria written by a black composer. The new competition, set to take The award is named in honour of the place every two years, is open to composer Samuel Coleridge Taylor, the professional or final-year student celebrated RCM alumnus. singers of black and Asian heritage from Peter Brathwaite 4 Recognition for The RCM Success for RCM Director strikes silver Handelfest We are pleased to announce that the Royal College of Music has recently been awarded Silver status under the Healthy Orchestra Charter. The Charter is a joint initiative by the Association of British Orchestras and the Musicians Benevolent Fund, aimed at creating an industry- wide standard of care for the health of orchestral musicians and management. The RCM is only the second recipient of Silver status since the launch of the charter (the first being the Royal Opera House), and was granted the award after Professor Colin Lawson rigorous examination. RCM Performance Coordinator Jess Pearce received the Professor Colin Lawson, Director of award on behalf of the RCM at the ABO the Royal College of Music, was recently Conference in Glasgow in February. awarded the honour of Fellow of the Royal Northern College of Music. If you are interested in learning more about the Charter please visit From 15 to 24 October the Royal College He was presented with his award by www.abo.org.uk/Information/ of Music’s Britten Theatre played host Professor Linda Merrick, Vice-Principal of Healthy-Orchestra/ to Handelfest, English Touring Opera’s the RNCM, at a ceremony in the College’s celebration of five of Handel’s most Concert Hall on Thursday 10 December. brilliant operatic works. RNCM President Sir Willard White No fewer than ten RCM alumni were presided over the ceremony. singing in the operas, including the likes of Katherine Manley, Rachel Nicholls, Clint van der Linde and Angelica Voje, was an incredible achievement for such all of whom received high praise from a Zone One Brass a young band, formed just seven years number of critics. ago by RCM students. The RCM’s resident ensemble Zone One Current RCM student Paula Sides Brass recently became the first London- RCM Head of Brass Nigel Black performed in two of the operas. She was based brass band to reach the finals of comments: “I am immensely proud of described as one of the “real stars” by National Brass Band Championships of Zone One’s achievements in reaching the the Guardian, while The Times said that Great Britain.
Load more

Recommended publications
  • NUI MAYNOOTH Ûllscôst La Ttéiîéann Mâ Üuad Charles Villiers Stanford’S Preludes for Piano Op.163 and Op.179: a Musicological Retrospective
    NUI MAYNOOTH Ûllscôst la ttÉiîéann Mâ Üuad Charles Villiers Stanford’s Preludes for Piano op.163 and op.179: A Musicological Retrospective (3 Volumes) Volume 1 Adèle Commins Thesis Submitted to the National University of Ireland, Maynooth for the degree of Doctor of Philosophy Department of Music National University of Ireland, Maynooth Maynooth Co. Kildare 2012 Head of Department: Professor Fiona M. Palmer Supervisors: Dr Lorraine Byrne Bodley & Dr Patrick F. Devine Acknowledgements I would like to express my appreciation to a number of people who have helped me throughout my doctoral studies. Firstly, I would like to express my gratitude and appreciation to my supervisors and mentors, Dr Lorraine Byrne Bodley and Dr Patrick Devine, for their guidance, insight, advice, criticism and commitment over the course of my doctoral studies. They enabled me to develop my ideas and bring the project to completion. I am grateful to Professor Fiona Palmer and to Professor Gerard Gillen who encouraged and supported my studies during both my undergraduate and postgraduate studies in the Music Department at NUI Maynooth. It was Professor Gillen who introduced me to Stanford and his music, and for this, I am very grateful. I am grateful to the staff in many libraries and archives for assisting me with my many queries and furnishing me with research materials. In particular, the Stanford Collection at the Robinson Library, Newcastle University has been an invaluable resource during this research project and I would like to thank Melanie Wood, Elaine Archbold and Alan Callender and all the staff at the Robinson Library, for all of their help and for granting me access to the vast Stanford collection.
    [Show full text]
  • 52183 FRMS Cover 142 17/08/2012 09:25 Page 1
    4884 cover_52183 FRMS cover 142 17/08/2012 09:25 Page 1 Autumn 2012 No. 157 £1.75 Bulletin 4884 cover_52183 FRMS cover 142 17/08/2012 09:21 Page 2 NEW RELEASES THE ROMANTIC VIOLIN STEPHEN HOUGH’S CONCERTO – 13 French Album Robert Schumann A master pianist demonstrates his Hyperion’s Romantic Violin Concerto series manifold talents in this delicious continues its examination of the hidden gems selection of French music. Works by of the nineteenth century. Schumann’s late works Poulenc, Fauré, Debussy and Ravel rub for violin and orchestra had a difficult genesis shoulders with lesser-known gems by but are shown as entirely worthy of repertoire their contemporaries. status in these magnificent performances by STEPHEN HOUGH piano Anthony Marwood. ANTHONY MARWOOD violin CDA67890 BBC SCOTTISH SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA CDA67847 DOUGLAS BOYD conductor MUSIC & POETRY FROM THIRTEENTH-CENTURY FRANCE Conductus – 1 LOUIS SPOHR & GEORGE ONSLOW Expressive and beautiful thirteenth-century vocal music which represents the first Piano Sonatas experiments towards polyphony, performed according to the latest research by acknowledged This recording contains all the major works for masters of the repertoire. the piano by two composers who were born within JOHN POTTER tenor months of each other and celebrated in their day CHRISTOPHER O’GORMAN tenor but heard very little now. The music is brought to ROGERS COVEY-CRUMP tenor modern ears by Howard Shelley, whose playing is the paradigm of the Classical-Romantic style. HOWARD SHELLEY piano CDA67947 CDA67949 JOHANNES BRAHMS The Complete Songs – 4 OTTORINO RESPIGHI Graham Johnson is both mastermind and Violin Sonatas pianist in this series of Brahms’s complete A popular orchestral composer is seen in a more songs.
    [Show full text]
  • Winter 2015 Programme
    Winter 2015 programme Box Office 020 8463 0100 www.blackheathhalls.com Hire the Halls Blackheath Halls, a Grade II listed building, offers two beautiful and unique spaces for celebrations, performances, recordings, conferences and rehearsals. Renowned for the quality of its acoustics, the magnificent Great Hall is the venue of choice for leading orchestras and ensembles for recordings and rehearsals. Among those who choose Blackheath Halls as their preferred venue are Chandos Records, English National Opera, London Symphony Orchestra and Channel 4. The recently refurbished Recital Room, which is licensed for wedding ceremonies, offers the perfect location for smaller scale functions and chamber music performances. For all hire enquiries please contact Caroline Foulkes, [email protected] or 020 8318 9758 BLACKHEATH WELCOMESUNDAYS PLENTY TO KEEP YOU ENTERTAINED IN 2015 CONTENTS A Happy New Year to everyone. concert, including the wonderfully Blackheath Sundays Blackheath Halls has a great tradition for evocative Seven Last Words on the Cross bringing you some of the best names on by James MacMillan. This is a rare the comedy circuit. Following in that opportunity to see and hear one of the Classical events tradition, we are delighted to announce leading choral groups in the world. the launch of Laughing Boy Comedy Club, The Jette Parker Young Artists will a monthly Thursday night show in the present three further Wednesday evening Recital Room. Alongside new and recitals at the Halls, the first on 21 January. CoLab emerging comedy talents, the Comedy The students of Trinity Laban will once Club will feature some of the top again be providing a diverse range of comedians trying out new material.
    [Show full text]
  • A GARLAND for JOHN MCCABE Monica Mccabe’S Reflections on a Life Lived for Music Agenda British Music Society’S News and Events British Music Scores Search
    BRITISH MUSIC SOCIETY nAPRIL 2018 ews AMBASSADOR FOR BRITISH MUSIC IN USA Madeleine Mitchell across the pond A GARLAND FOR JOHN MCCABE Monica McCabe’s reflections on a life lived for music Agenda British Music Society’s news and events British music scores search org Schneider from the German for piano and winds (1890) wind ensemble Four Points One • George Alexander Osborne Chairman’s J(www.four-point-one.de) is on Quintet for piano and winds the hunt for scores the following (1889) (Yes - he is actually Irish) compositions by British composers: If anyone from the BMS welcome • Marian Arkwright Quintet for network could help him track down piano and winds these scores please get in touch with MS member Madeleine Mitchell is back • Edith Swepstone Quintet for him at [email protected]. piano and winds Jorg is also on the look out for from America and has submitted the first • Henry David Leslie Quintet for any information about the Sir BBMS Ambassador report from her visit to piano and winds op.6 Michael Costa Prize 1896 Anyone the Kansas State University (see opposite page). • Edward Davey Rendall Quintet know anything about this? The committee is closely monitoring the progress of this new scheme and are always interested to hear members’ views. Reviving Victorian opera For those of you with access to the internet, a visit to the BMS website now offers the preced - ictorian Opera Northwest to revise Nell Gwynne by inviting B have made full opera C Stevenson (a librettist of Sullivan’s ing Printed News that opens by clicking on the recordings of works by Balfe, The Zoo) to write the new book.
    [Show full text]
  • The Wagner Society Members Who Were Lucky Enough to Get Tickets Was a Group I Met Who Had Come from Yorkshire
    HARMONY No 264 Spring 2019 HARMONY 264: March 2019 CONTENTS 3 From the Chairman Michael Bousfield 4 AGM and “No Wedding for Franz Liszt” Robert Mansell 5 Cover Story: Project Salome Rachel Nicholls 9 Music Club of London Programme: Spring / Summer 2019 Marjorie Wilkins Ann Archbold 18 Music Club of London Christmas Dinner 2018 Katie Barnes 23 Visit to Merchant Taylors’ Hall Sally Ramshaw 25 Dame Gwyneth Jones’ Masterclasses at Villa Wahnfried Roger Lee 28 Sir John Tomlinson’s masterclasses with Opera Prelude Katie Barnes 30 Verdi in London: Midsummer Opera and Fulham Opera Katie Barnes 33 Mastersingers: The Road to Valhalla (1) with Sir John Tomlinson Katie Barnes 37 Mastersingers: The Road to Valhalla (2) with Dame Felicity Palmer 38 Music Club of London Contacts Cover picture: Mastersingers alumna Rachel Nicholls by David Shoukry 2 FROM THE CHAIRMAN We are delighted to present the second issue of our “online” Harmony magazine and I would like to extend a very big thank you to Roger Lee who has produced it, as well as to Ann Archbold who will be editing our Newsletter which is more specifically aimed at members who do not have a computer. The Newsletter package will include the booking forms for the concerts and visits whose details appear on pages 9 to 17. Overseas Tours These have provided a major benefit to many of our members for as long as any us can recall – and it was a source of great disappointment when we had to suspend these. Your committee have been exploring every possible option to offer an alternative and our Club Secretary, Ian Slater, has done a great deal of work in this regard.
    [Show full text]
  • MUSICWEB INTERNATIONAL Recordings of the Year 2019
    MUSICWEB INTERNATIONAL Recordings Of The Year 2019 This is the seventeenth year that MusicWeb International has asked its reviewing team to nominate their recordings of the year. Reviewers are not restricted to discs they had reviewed, but the choices must have been reviewed on MWI in the last 12 months (December 2018-November 2019). The 128 selections have come from 27 members of the team and 65 different labels, the choices reflecting as usual, the great diversity of music and sources; I say that every year, but still the spread of choices surprises and pleases me. Of the selections, one has received three nominations: An English Coronation on Signum Classics and ten have received two nominations: Gounod’s Faust on Bru Zane Matthias Goerne’s Schumann Lieder on Harmonia Mundi Prokofiev’s Romeo & Juliet choreographed by John Cranko on C Major Marx’s Herbstymphonie on CPO Weinberg symphonies on DG Shostakovich piano works on Hyperion Late Beethoven sonatas on Hyperion Korngold orchestral works on Chandos Coates orchestral works on Chandos Music connected to Leonardo da Vinci on Alpha Hyperion was this year’s leading label with nine nominations, just ahead of C Major with eight. MUSICWEB INTERNATIONAL RECORDING OF THE YEAR In this twelve month period, we published more than 2300 reviews. There is no easy or entirely satisfactory way of choosing one above all others as our Recording of the Year, but this year one recording in particular put itself forward as the obvious candidate. An English Coronation 1902-1953 Simon Russell Beale, Rowan Pierce, Matthew Martin, Gabrieli Consort; Gabrieli Roar; Gabrieli Players; Chetham’s Symphonic Brass Ensemble/Paul McCreesh rec.
    [Show full text]
  • Orchestral Works, Volume 1
    A1 Orchestral Works, Volume 1 - ClassicalNet Review ● Concerto for Violin & Orchestra ● Cello Concerto ● Morning Song (Maytime in Sussex) Lydia Mordkovitch, violin Raphael Wallfisch, cello Margaret Fingerhut, piano London Philharmonic Orchestra/Bryden Thomson Chandos CHANX10154 77K18 The opening volume in Chandos's series of Bax's orchestral music (minus the symphonies) concentrates on works for soloist and orchestra. The series has reached its ninth volume, by the way. Considered one of the great English composers in his own day, Bax has pretty much slid into obscurity outside Britain. It's tempting to blame the changes on the musical scene after World War II, but in truth Bax's music had begun to fade by the late Thirties, despite his becoming Master of the King's Music in 1942. Vaughan Williams, Walton, and Britten – and slightly less prominent figures like Tippett, Bliss, and Rubbra – had superseded him with a more aggressive Modernism. As he grew older, he composed less and less. Chandos has made an heroic effort to bring him back by issuing recordings of all the symphonies, orchestral music, piano music, and possibly chamber music. I consider Bax's music well worth reviving: an interesting mix of late Romantic and Modern, superb handling of the orchestra, and a uniQuely complex counterpoint resulting from his orchestral sonorities. Bax intended his 1937 violin concerto for Heifetz. Heifetz rejected it, for some reason. No one ever accused Heifetz of perfect taste, especially in modern music, but, really, he spat on a masterpiece and what's more, one perfectly suited to his musical point of view – big, Romantic, heroic.
    [Show full text]
  • Georg Friedrich Händel (1685-1759)
    Georg Friedrich Händel (1685-1759) Sämtliche Werke / Complete works in MP3-Format Details Georg Friedrich Händel (George Frederic Handel) (1685-1759) - Complete works / Sämtliche Werke - Total time / Gesamtspielzeit 249:50:54 ( 10 d 10 h ) Titel/Title Zeit/Time 1. Opera HWV 1 - 45, A11, A13, A14 116:30:55 HWV 01 Almira 3:44:50 1994: Fiori musicali - Andrew Lawrence-King, Organ/Harpsichord/Harp - Beate Röllecke Ann Monoyios (Soprano) - Almira, Patricia Rozario (Soprano) - Edilia, Linda Gerrard (Soprano) - Bellante, David Thomas (Bass) - Consalvo, Jamie MacDougall (Tenor) - Fernando, Olaf Haye (Bass) - Raymondo, Christian Elsner (Tenor) - Tabarco HWV 06 Agrippina 3:24:33 2010: Akademie f. Alte Musik Berlin - René Jacobs Alexandrina Pendatchanska (Soprano) - Agrippina, Jennifer Rivera (Mezzo-Soprano) - Nerone, Sunhae Im (Soprano) - Poppea, Bejun Mehta (Counter-Tenor) - Ottone, Marcos Fink (Bass-Bariton) - Claudio, Neal Davis (Bass-Bariton) - Pallante, Dominique Visse (Counter-Tenor) - Narciso, Daniel Schmutzhard (Bass) - Lesbo HWV 07 Rinaldo 2:54:46 1999: The Academy of Ancient Music - Christopher Hogwood Bernarda Fink (Mezzo-Sopran) - Goffredo, Cecilia Bartoli (Mezzo-Sopran) - Almirena, David Daniels (Counter-Tenor) - Rinaldo, Daniel Taylor (Counter-Tenor) - Eustazio, Gerald Finley (Bariton) - Argante, Luba Orgonasova (Soprano) - Armida, Bejun Mehta (Counter-Tenor) - Mago cristiano, Ana-Maria Rincón (Soprano) - Donna, Sirena II, Catherine Bott (Soprano) - Sirena I, Mark Padmore (Tenor) - Un Araldo HWV 08c Il Pastor fido 2:27:42 1994: Capella
    [Show full text]
  • Musicweb International August 2020 RETROSPECTIVE SUMMER 2020
    RETROSPECTIVE SUMMER 2020 By Brian Wilson The decision to axe the ‘Second Thoughts and Short Reviews’ feature left me with a vast array of part- written reviews, left unfinished after a colleague had got their thoughts online first, with not enough hours in the day to recast a full review in each case. This is an attempt to catch up. Even if in almost every case I find myself largely in agreement with the original review, a brief reminder of something you may have missed, with a slightly different slant, may be useful – and, occasionally, I may be raising a dissenting voice. Index [with page numbers] Malcolm ARNOLD Concerto for Organ and Orchestra – see Arthur BUTTERWORTH Johann Sebastian BACH Concertos for Harpsichord and Strings – Volume 1_BIS [2] Johann Sebastian BACH, Georg Philipp TELEMANN, Carl Philipp Emanuel BACH The Father, the Son and the Godfather_BIS [2] Sir Arnold BAX Morning Song ‘Maytime in Sussex’ – see RUBBRA Amy BEACH Piano Quintet (with ELGAR Piano Quintet)_Hyperion [9] Sir Arthur BLISS Piano Concerto in B-flat – see RUBBRA Benjamin BRITTEN Serenade for Tenor, Horn and Strings, etc._Alto_Regis [15, 16] Arthur BUTTERWORTH Symphony No.1 (with Ruth GIPPS Symphony No.2, Malcolm ARNOLD Concerto for Organ and Orchestra)_Musical Concepts [16] Paul CORFIELD GODFREY Beren and Lúthien: Epic Scenes from the Silmarillion - Part Two_Prima Facie [17] Sir Edward ELGAR Symphony No.2_Decca [7] - Sea Pictures; Falstaff_Decca [6] - Falstaff; Cockaigne_Sony [7] - Sea Pictures; Alassio_Sony [7] - Violin Sonata (with Ralph VAUGHAN WILLIAMS Violin Sonata; The Lark Ascending)_Chandos [9] - Piano Quintet – see Amy BEACH Gerald FINZI Concerto for Clarinet and Strings – see VAUGHAN WILLIAMS [10] Ruth GIPPS Symphony No.2 – see Arthur BUTTERWORTH Alan GRAY Magnificat and Nunc dimittis in f minor – see STANFORD Modest MUSSORGSKY Pictures from an Exhibition (orch.
    [Show full text]
  • Download Publication
    Arts Council OF GREAT BRITAI N Patronage and Responsibility Thirty=fourth annual report and accounts 1978/79 ARTS COUNCIL OF GREAT BRITAIN REFERENCE ONLY DO NOT REMOVE fROwI THE LIBRARY Thirty-fourth Annual Report and Accounts 1979 ISSN 0066-813 3 Published by the Arts Council of Great Britai n 105 Piccadilly, London W 1V OAU Designed by Duncan Firt h Printed by Watmoughs Limited, Idle, Bradford ; and London Cover pictures : Dave Atkins (the Foreman) and Liz Robertson (Eliza) in the Leicester Haymarket production ofMy Fair Lady, produced by Cameron Mackintosh with special funds from Arts Council Touring (photo : Donald Cooper), and Ian McKellen (Prozorov) and Susan Trac y (Natalya) in the Royal Shakespeare Company's small- scale tour of The Three Sisters . Contents 4 Chairman's Introductio n 5 Secretary-General's Report 12 Regional Developmen t 13 Drama 16 Music and Dance 20 Visual Arts 24 Literature 25 Touring 27 Festivals 27 Arts Centres 28 Community Art s 29 Performance Art 29 Ethnic Arts 30 Marketing 30 Housing the Arts 31 Training 31 Education 32 Research and Informatio n 33 Press Office 33 Publications 34 Scotland 36 Wales 38 Membership of Council and Staff 39 Council, Committees and Panels 47 Annual Accounts , Awards, Funds and Exhibitions The objects for which the Arts Council of Great Britain is established by Royal Charter are : 1 To develop and improve the knowledge , understanding and practice of the arts ; 2 To increase the accessibility of the arts to the public throughout Great Britain ; and 3 To co-operate with government departments, local authorities and other bodies to achieve these objects .
    [Show full text]
  • 29 September 2017 Page 1 of 20
    Radio 3 Listings for 23 – 29 September 2017 Page 1 of 20 SATURDAY 23 SEPTEMBER 2017 White Mist Patches Polish Radio Choir, uncredited pianist, Marek Kluza (director) SAT 01:00 Through the Night (b0952b1p) Vivaldi's Gloria and Mozart's first Violin Concerto 4:48 AM Jonathan Swain presents a performance from Romanian Radio of Rossini, Gioachino (1792-1868) Vivaldi's Gloria and Mozart's first violin concerto. Introduction and Theme and Variations László Horváth (clarinet), Hungarian Radio Orchestra, Géza 1:01 AM Oberfrank (conductor) Joseph Haydn (1732-1809) Overture to 'L'isola disabitata', Hob.XXVIII:9 5:01 AM Romanian Radio Chamber Orchestra, Gabriel Bebeselea Donizetti, Gaetano (1797-1848) (conductor) Aria 'Quel guardo il cavaliere', Norina's Cavatina from Act 1, scene 2 of "Don Pasquale" 1:09 AM Adriana Marfisi (soprano), Oslo Philharmonic, Nello Santi Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart (1756-1791) (conductor) Violin Concerto No.1 in B flat, K.207 Cristina Anghelescu (violin), Romanian Radio Chamber Orchestra, 5:07 AM Gabriel Bebeselea (conductor) Turina, Joaquín (1882-1949) Rapsodia sinfonica for piano and string orchestra, Op.66 1:30 AM Angela Cheng (piano), Calgary Philharmonic Orchestra, Hans Graf Antonio Vivaldi (1678-1741) (conductor) Gloria in D major, RV.589 Rodica Vica (soprano), Maria Jinga (mezzo-soprano), Romanian 5:16 AM Radio Academic Chorus, Dan Mihai Goia (director), Romanian Vivaldi, Antonio (1678-1741) Radio Chamber Orchestra, Gabriel Bebeselea (conductor) Concerto da camera in C major, RV.87 Camerata Köln 1:58 AM Bach, Johann
    [Show full text]
  • Sir Colin Davis Discography
    1 The Hector Berlioz Website SIR COLIN DAVIS, CH, CBE (25 September 1927 – 14 April 2013) A DISCOGRAPHY Compiled by Malcolm Walker and Brian Godfrey With special thanks to Philip Stuart © Malcolm Walker and Brian Godfrey All rights of reproduction reserved [Issue 10, 9 July 2014] 2 DDDISCOGRAPHY FORMAT Year, month and day / Recording location / Recording company (label) Soloist(s), chorus and orchestra RP: = recording producer; BE: = balance engineer Composer / Work LP: vinyl long-playing 33 rpm disc 45: vinyl 7-inch 45 rpm disc [T] = pre-recorded 7½ ips tape MC = pre-recorded stereo music cassette CD= compact disc SACD = Super Audio Compact Disc VHS = Video Cassette LD = Laser Disc DVD = Digital Versatile Disc IIINTRODUCTION This discography began as a draft for the Classical Division, Philips Records in 1980. At that time the late James Burnett was especially helpful in providing dates for the L’Oiseau-Lyre recordings that he produced. More information was obtained from additional paperwork in association with Richard Alston for his book published to celebrate the conductor’s 70 th birthday in 1997. John Hunt’s most valuable discography devoted to the Staatskapelle Dresden was again helpful. Further updating has been undertaken in addition to the generous assistance of Philip Stuart via his LSO discography which he compiled for the Orchestra’s centenary in 2004 and has kept updated. Inevitably there are a number of missing credits for producers and engineers in the earliest years as these facts no longer survive. Additionally some exact dates have not been tracked down. Contents CHRONOLOGICAL LIST OF RECORDING ACTIVITY Page 3 INDEX OF COMPOSERS / WORKS Page 125 INDEX OF SOLOISTS Page 137 Notes 1.
    [Show full text]