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The Inspiration Behind Compositions for Clarinetist Frederick Thurston
THE INSPIRATION BEHIND COMPOSITIONS FOR CLARINETIST FREDERICK THURSTON Aileen Marie Razey, B.M., M.M. Dissertation Prepared for the Degree of DOCTOR OF MUSICAL ARTS UNIVERSITY OF NORTH TEXAS August 201 8 APPROVED: Kimberly Cole Luevano, Major Professor Warren Henry, Committee Member John Scott, Committee Member John Holt, Chair of the Division of Instrumental Studies Benjamin Brand, Director of Graduate Studies in the College of Music John Richmond, Dean of the College of Music Victor Prybutok, Dean of the Toulouse Graduate School Razey, Aileen Marie. The Inspiration behind Compositions for Clarinetist Frederick Thurston. Doctor of Musical Arts (Performance), August 2018, 86 pp., references, 51 titles. Frederick Thurston was a prominent British clarinet performer and teacher in the first half of the 20th century. Due to the brevity of his life and the impact of two world wars, Thurston’s legacy is often overlooked among clarinetists in the United States. Thurston’s playing inspired 19 composers to write 22 solo and chamber works for him, none of which he personally commissioned. The purpose of this document is to provide a comprehensive biography of Thurston’s career as clarinet performer and teacher with a complete bibliography of compositions written for him. With biographical knowledge and access to the few extant recordings of Thurston’s playing, clarinetists may gain a fuller understanding of Thurston’s ideal clarinet sound and musical ideas. These resources are necessary in order to recognize the qualities about his playing that inspired composers to write for him and to perform these works with the composers’ inspiration in mind. Despite the vast list of works written for and dedicated to Thurston, clarinet players in the United States are not familiar with many of these works, and available resources do not include a complete listing. -
13 November 2009 Page 1 of 41
Radio 3 Listings for 7 – 13 November 2009 Page 1 of 41 SATURDAY 07 NOVEMBER 2009 4.42am Gombert, Nicolas (c.1495-c.1560): Benedicto mensae SAT 01:00 Through the Night (b00nkyd1) BBC Singers Including: Bo Holten (conductor) 1.00am 4.52am Sweelinck, Jan Pieterszoon (1562-1621): Christe qui lux es et Bizet, Georges (1838-1875): Andante molto (3rd mvt from the dies Symphonic Suite Roma) 1.05am Slovak Radio Symphony Orchestra, Bratislava Sweelinck: Echo Fantasia in D minor Oliver Dohnanyi (conductor) 1.10am Bull, John (c.1562-1628): Salvator mundi 5.01am 1.14am Massenet, Jules (1842-1912): Meditation (Thais) Sweelinck: Toccata in D minor Marie Berard (violin) 1.17am Canadian Opera Company Orchestra Scheidemann, Heinrich (c.1596-1663): Ballet in D minor Richard Bradshaw (conductor) (Klavierboek van Anna Maria van Eyl - 1671) 1.19am 5.07am Reinken, Johan Adamszoon (1643(?)-1722): Hollandische Caldara, Antonio (1670-1736): Pietro and Maddalena's duet: Vi Nachtigahl sento, o Dio; Chorus Di quel sangue (La Passione di Gesu 1.23am Christo - 1730) Reincken, Johann Adam (1643?-1722): Toccata in G minor Maddalena ...... Ann Monoyios (soprano) 1.29am Pietro ...... Michael Chance (countertenor) Reincken: Fuga in G minor Hugo Distler Chor 1.35am La Stagione Frankfurt Schildt, Melchior ? (1593-1667): Ach Gott, vom Himmel sieh' Michael Schneider (conductor) darein (choral fantasy) Pieter Dirksen (organ of Grote of St-Jan Baptistkerk in Wijk Bij 5.20am Duurstede, Netherlands - built by Albert Kiespenning c. 1615) Rameau, Jean-Philippe (1683-1764): L'entretien -
Radio 3 Listings for 22 – 28 May 2021 Page 1 Of
Radio 3 Listings for 22 – 28 May 2021 Page 1 of 27 SATURDAY 22 MAY 2021 04:08 AM Edvard Grieg (1843-1907) SAT 01:00 Through the Night (m000w5v3) Ballade in G minor, Op 24 Soós-Haag Piano Duo Eugen d'Albert (piano) Music by Mozart, Bartók, Chopin and Schubert performed at the 04:18 AM 2018 piano4 Festival in Switzerland. With John Shea. Benjamin Godard (1849-1895) Oh! Ne t'eveille pas encor (Jocelyn, Act 1) 01:01 AM Benjamin Butterfield (tenor), Canadian Opera Company Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart (1756-1791), Robert Levin Orchestra, Richard Bradshaw (conductor) (arranger) Larghetto and Allegro in E flat, KV deest 04:23 AM Soós-Haag Piano Duo (piano duo) Francesco Maria Veracini (1690-1768) Overture VI for 2 oboes, bassoon & strings 01:13 AM Michael Niesemann (oboe), Alison Gangler (oboe), Adrian Bela Bartok (1881-1945) Rovatkay (bassoon), Musica Antiqua Koln, Reinhard Goebel Suite for Two Pianos, Op 4b (conductor) Soós-Haag Piano Duo (piano duo) 04:34 AM 01:43 AM Johannes Brahms (1833-1897) Fryderyk Chopin (1810-1849) 3 Lieder, arr. for cello and piano Rondo in C for Two Pianos, Op 73 Sol Gabetta (cello), Bertrand Chamayou (piano) Soós-Haag Piano Duo (piano duo) 04:43 AM 01:54 AM Ralph Vaughan Williams (1872-1958) Rudolf Kelterborn (1931-2021) Overture to The Wasps - Aristophanic suite (from incidental Piano Work No. 7 ('Quinternio') music) Soós-Haag Piano Duo (piano duo) BBC Concert Orchestra, Barry Wordsworth (conductor) 02:05 AM 04:53 AM Franz Schubert (1797-1828) Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart (1756-1791) Fantasie in F minor for Piano Four Hands, -
Mozart & the Golden Age of Music
MOZART & THE GOLDEN AGE OF MUSIC Explore the wonderful music and opera of the Danube with Guest Speaker Sir Nicholas Kenyon and London Festival Opera Aboard the MS Royal Crown 28th October to 4th November 2018 NORTH SEA NETHERLANDS Passau Cathedral and the Old Town he magic of Mozart has once again placed its spell andRhine the demand for music inspired trips along the BELGIUMDanube continues T Prague unabated, and with our friends London Festival Opera we can CZECH promise you a marvellous experience. Our musical journeyMoselle from REPUBLIC Rhine Budapest to Passau is a celebration of Mozart’s life, and Neckar Passau Durnstein SLOVAKIA of the many great composers from this Golden Age. On this seven Linz Melk Bratislava Munich Danube Wachau Valley night river cruise we will visit small towns and villages as well as GERMANY Vienna Salzburg Danube the cities of Budapest, Bratislava and Salzburg, enjoying some of AUSTRIA Budapest the finest works of music from the concertos of Mozart andSWITZERLAND Johann Strauss’s waltzes to opera and folk tunes in idyllic settings. HUNGARY We will also visit the city most celebrated for its music heritage Danube ROMANIA DANUBE and Austria’s capital, Vienna, whose classical period was a golden DELTA IRON age in Viennese musical life. Mozart lived here for the last decade of his life and exerted great GATES influence on the musical life of the capital and Empress Maria Theresa herself trilled arias on the stage Danube of the Schlosstheater at Schonbrunn. SERBIA BULGARIA BLACK In addition to our excursions and music ashore, we will also enjoy ‘highlight’ performances by London SEA Festival Opera aboard our wonderfully comfortable vessel in the intimate atmosphere of the lounge. -
Barbican Appoints Will Gompertz As New Director of Arts and Learning
For immediate release: Friday 19 March 2021 Barbican appoints Will Gompertz as new Director of Arts and Learning The Barbican today announces that Will Gompertz will join the international arts centre in the newly designed role of Director of Arts and Learning. This key role for the Centre brings together the arts and creative learning departments for the first time, and working with the art form and learning leads, Gompertz will lead the creation and delivery of the next phase of the Barbican’s artistic vision. Will Gompertz joins the Barbican from the BBC where he has been Arts Editor since 2009, and prior to that was a Director of the Tate Galleries for seven years. During his tenure in these internationally renowned media and cultural organisations, he brought a focus on driving innovation and change, opening up the arts to the widest public with dynamic and strategic leadership. Gompertz joins the Barbican at a pivotal time as it looks to its 40th anniversary next year and embarks on a major renewal of the building which aims to ensure the Centre will be the creative home for the next generation. He will lead the organisation in renewing its vision and purpose as a civic space for the widest inclusive community, especially in light of the impact of the Covid-19 pandemic. Supporting and collaborating with the team of artistic and organisational leaders across the arts, creative learning, marketing and communications teams, the role will refocus the Barbican’s work in response to the different future we now face. He will take up the position on 1 June 2021. -
BBC Radio in the Digital Era (1982 - ) Professor Jeremy Summerly
BBC Radio in the Digital Era (1982 - ) Professor Jeremy Summerly 15 April 2021 On Hallowe’en in 1981, Paul Vaughan became the presenter of Radio 3’s Record Review. Vaughan took over from John Lade (the programme’s founder-presenter) who had presented exactly 1,000 editions of the programme. Lade had led his listeners from 78s to LPs and Vaughan ushered in the CD era. Since its very first episode in 1957, ‘Building a Library’ has been at the heart of Record Review (re-named CD Review from 1998 until 2015). For most of its history ‘Building a Library’ has been a pre-recorded monologue punctuated by comparative musical examples, but on 22 March 2014 it was broadcast as a two-way live interview with presenter Andrew McGregor from a pop-up studio in London’s Southbank Centre. Thus, I was the first contributor to deliver ‘Building a Library’ live (having worked as a freelance contributor to the programme since 1992). On that spring morning in 2014, I chose Trevor Pinnock’s 1993 recording of Mozart’s Coronation Mass over the 1971 version by the London Symphony Orchestra under Sir Colin Davis. A group of dedicated CD Review listeners had congregated around the BBC pod to witness the live broadcast of the programme, and during the course of the segment they started to react to my analytical observations with muted applause and/or good-natured hisses of disapproval. That direct contact with the CD Review audience was a wonderful experience, albeit a predictably confirmatory one: Radio 3’s audience has an average age of around 60 years old, and that was borne out that morning in the Royal Festival Hall foyer. -
Front Matter
Cambridge University Press 978-0-521-89611-5 - The Cambridge History of Musical Performance Colin Lawson and Robin Stowell Frontmatter More information THE CAMBRIDGE HISTORY OF MUSICAL PERFORMANCE The intricacies and challenges of musical performance have recently attracted the attention of writers and scholars to a greater extent than ever before. Research into the performer’s experience has begun to explore such areas as practice techniques, performance anxiety and memorisation, as well as many other professional issues. Historical performance practice has been the subject of lively debate way beyond academic circles, mirroring its high profile in the recording studio and the concert hall. Reflecting the strong ongoing interest in the role of performers and performance, this History brings together research from leading scholars and historians, and, impor- tantly, features contributions from accomplished performers, whose practi- cal experiences give the volume a unique vitality. Moving the focus away from the composers and onto the musicians responsible for bringing the music to life, the History presents a fresh, integrated and innovative perspec- tive on performance history and practice, from the earliest times to today. COLIN LAWSON is Director of the Royal College of Music, London. He has an international profile as a period clarinettist and has played principal in most of Britain’s leading period orchestras, notably The Hanover Band, the English Concert and the London Classical Players, with whom he has recorded extensively and toured worldwide. He has published widely, and is co-editor, with Robin Stowell, of a series of Cambridge Handbooks to the Historical Performance of Music, for which he co-authored an introductory volume and contributed a book on the early clarinet. -
The Modernisation of Wind Playing in London Orchestras, 1909–1939: A
The modernisation of wind playing in London orchestras, 1909–1939: A study of playing style in early orchestral recordings Emily Claire Worthington PhD University of York Department of Music April 2013 2 3 Abstract This is a study of performing styles among wind players in London orchestras during the period 1909–1939. Existing scholarship relating to orchestral performance in London in the early twentieth century perpetuates the notion that playing standards were, at best, unreliable until the establishment of contracted orchestras in the 1930s. In addition, existing studies of wind playing in orchestral recordings pre-1930 suggest that a plain style prevailed, with little use of vibrato or tonal flexibility, until the French woodwind schools began to influence British practices in the late 1930s. Three London orchestras are considered through a combination of archival research and recording analysis. A case study of the New Symphony Orchestra (1905–1930) challenges the notion that pre-1930 London orchestras were ill-disciplined and lacking in corporate identity. The NSO’s recordings document a hyper-expressive performance style founded on the use of temporal flexibility, which bears relation to styles observed among pianists, singers and string players of the period. Attention then turns to London’s first ‘permanent’ orchestras, the BBC Symphony Orchestra and London Philharmonic Orchestra. Documentary evidence shows that the two ensembles were established to fulfill two very different ideals of orchestral performance and musical aesthetic. Comparison of the orchestras’ recordings is used to establish how this led to the emergence of two contrasting styles of playing in their wind sections, both of which nonetheless represented a move away from the style of the NSO. -
An Exploration of Music and Dramaturgy Edward Primrose
Music in context: an exploration of music and dramaturgy Edward Primrose 2013 Submitted as requirements for the award of Doctor of Philosophy The University of Newcastle, Australia School of Creative Arts ii Statement of Originality The thesis contains no material which has been accepted for the award of any other degree or diploma in any university or other tertiary institution and, to the best of my knowledge and belief, contains no material previously published or written by another person, except where due reference has been made in the text. I give consent to the final version of my thesis being made available worldwide when deposited in the University’s Digital Repository**, subject to the provisions of the Copyright Act 1968. **Unless an Embargo has been approved for a determined period. iii Music in context: an exploration of music and dramaturgy Intellect, it holds knowledge of its own content. Knowledge implies desire, for it is, so to speak, discovery crowning a search. (Plotinus)1 Under the banners we ride for days through forest, down narrow lanes, leaf paths, to the king's war behind us spare horses, lesser knights, dustily follow after the battle no-one follows your captured horse walks over broken ground to a strange sunset castle roast meat and wine she leads you to her bed lie barely touching to love would ruin (Michael Dransfield) 2 1 Plotinus (250 AD) The Fifth Ennead from the Third Tractate Plotinus. The Six Enneads. (B. S. Page & S. MacKenna, Trans. (1952)). 2 Dransfield, M. (1987). Under the banners. In Collected poems. -
Radio 3 Listings for 3 – 9 April 2021 Page 1 of 11
Radio 3 Listings for 3 – 9 April 2021 Page 1 of 11 SATURDAY 03 APRIL 2021 SAT 06:00 Downtime Symphony (m000tt6w) 23485/cvs033-cd-stabat-mater?tkn=16-2M0L0r5t0t430+4c0F3 Celeste’s weekly pick of tracks to recharge mind and body I045g0K5Z0E3BoWpRf/BvIZM=&token=MF8ytu4SrWnf- SAT 01:00 Through the Night (m000tp69) CKjzuTFVDWjejIJx-Afk3vXDAXBD3w Schubert's Winterreise Celeste presents an hour of wind-down music to help you press pause and reset your mind. With chilled sounds of orchestral, Cecilia McDowall: Sacred Choral Music Soprano Juliane Banse and pianist Wolfram Rieger perform jazz, ambient, and lo-fi beats to power your downtime, Trinity College Cambridge Winterreise at the Vilabertran Schubertiade Festival 2020. With including tracks by Sun Ra, Chet Baker and Alexander Stephen Layton (conductor) John Shea. Glazunov. Hyperion CDA68251 https://www.hyperion-records.co.uk/dc.asp?dc=D_CDA68251 01:01 AM Franz Schubert (1797-1828), Wilhelm Muller (author) SAT 07:00 Breakfast (m000tt6y) 10.40am Allyson Devenish on New Schubert Song Releases Winterreise, D911 Elizabeth Alker Juliane Banse (soprano), Wolfram Rieger (piano) Pianist Allyson Devenish joins Andrew to review recent Classical music for breakfast time plus found sounds and the Schubert Lieder discs, including not one but three new readings 02:18 AM odd unclassified track. of Winterreise. Franz Schubert (1797-1828) Symphony No 5 in B flat major, D485 Schubert: Winterreise Royal Concertgebouw Orchestra, Leonard Bernstein SAT 09:00 Record Review (m000tt70) Roderick Williams (baritone) (conductor) Tchaikovsky's Fifth with William Mival and Andrew McGregor Iain Burnside (piano) Chandos CHAN20163 02:48 AM Featuring Tchaikovsky's Fifth Symphony, the best recording to https://www.chandos.net/products/catalogue/CHAN%2020163 Franz Schubert (1797-1828), Franz Liszt (transcriber) buy, download or stream, as well as recent releases of Standchen, D957 Schubert's songs. -
University of California Riverside
UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA RIVERSIDE Elizabeth Maconchy: The Early Years, 1923 - 1939 A Dissertation submitted in partial satisfaction of the requirements for the degree of Doctor of Philosophy in Music by Erica Janice Siegel August 2016 Dissertation Committee: Dr. Byron Adams, Chairperson Dr. Rogerio Budasz Dr. Walter Clark Copyright by Erica Janice Siegel 2016 The Dissertation of Erica Janice Siegel is approved: Committee Chairperson University of California, Riverside Acknowledgements This dissertation would have been impossible to complete without the assistance of several individuals. First and foremost, I would like to thank Dr. Nicola LeFanu for her incredible kindness, generosity, and assistance. I am also indebted to Dr. Jenny Doctor, Dr. Sophie Fuller, and Dr. Rhiannon Mathias, who have all made important contributions to scholarship on Maconchy and women composers in Britain. I would especially like to thank my advisor, Dr. Byron Adams, for his unwavering support, as well as my committee members Dr. Rogerio Budasz, Dr. Walter Clark, and Dr. Leonora Saavedra. Much of this research would have been impossible to complete without the generous funding of an IHR Mellon Dissertation Research Fellowship, and I’d like to thank Dr. Lawrence Goldman and Vanessa Rockel for their support during my year as a Mellon Fellow at the Institute of Historical Research. Several individual also offered their time and assistance over the course of my research in the UK, and I am particularly grateful to Dr. Dan Grimely, Dr. Leanne Langley, and Hugh Cobbe for their advice and guidance. I would also particularly like to thank Clara Colvin for her generous hospitality. -
Press Release
PRESS RELEASE Strictly embargoed until 7.00pm Tuesday 1 December BASCA announces 2009 British Composer Awards winners. New Award for Contemporary Jazz Composition goes to Jason Yarde. Tuesday, December 1, 2009: The winners of the 2009 British Composer Awards were today announced in a ceremony hosted by BASCA (British Academy of Songwriters, Composer and Authors) at the Law Society, London. Now in its seventh year, the Awards are presented by BASCA and sponsored by PRS for Music. In association with BBC Radio 3, the awards will be broadcast in Performance on 3 on Wednesday 2nd December at 7pm.. The key-note comments at the ceremony were given by Sir Nicholas Kenyon, CBE who also presented the winners with their Awards. This year’s event gave special focus to the new Award for Contemporary Jazz Composition which was won by composer and saxophonist, Jason Yarde for his BBC Prom commission, Rhythm and Other Fascinations. The advent of Jazz as a new awards category was also celebrated by Scottish Jazz Quartet, Brass Jaw, whose performances included two new works specially commissioned by BBC Radio 3 from jazz legend John Surman, especially for the occasion. John Surman, who appeared recently at the London Jazz Festival, was at the Awards to acknowledge the two world premieres. Welcoming the new Jazz Award, Roger Wright, Controller, BBC Radio 3, said, “The Awards continue to reflect the immense creativity that flourishes in this field today and we are delighted to support them for the seventh year. That they have expanded their reach to embrace a further area of work where composers earn scant acknowledgement – this time in the Jazz domain – is a sign of the growing importance of the Awards in recognising the breadth of what composers are doing today.” Ellis Rich, Chairman of PRS for Music, sponsors of the Awards, comments ““Yet again we’ve seen that this country has a wealth of contemporary classical music talent and it is right that this is celebrated.