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18 April
7.30, £10 (£6)
Music, Sound, and the Re-configuration of Public and Private Space
Sound artists, including John Levack Drever, John Wynne and Cedric Maridet, present original work in an evening of compositions.
A public concert following a conference organised at CRASSH.
Go to www.crassh.cam.ac.uk/events/2007-8/musicsoundspace.html for more information on the conference.
27 April
12.00 £6 (£4)
Noszferatu: Dutch Connections
When the composer Louis Andriessen worked at The Royal Conservatory in The
Hague a distinctive attitude and style evolved around him. This has become
known as the ‘Hague School’ of composition. Anglo-Dutch collective
Noszferatu explore music by the younger generation of Hague School composers
Martijn Padding and Michel van der Aa, with pieces by other composers who
have come under its influence
11 May
12.00, free
Silent Histories
Soundscapes and compositions on the themes of stillness, technology and place.
Musical contributions by Tom Hall, Richard Hoadley and other members of the
Department of Music and Performing Arts, Anglia Ruskin University.
18 May
12.00, £6 (£4)
Jo Kondo/Paul Newland Double Portrait
Mieko Kanno, violin and Richard Casey, piano
At 60, Jo Kondo is arguably Japan’s greatest living composer. His music continues to make a profound impact in the West. British Composer Paul Newland spent three years studying with Kondo in Japan. He will introduce this programme and explore Kondo’s distinctive aesthetic through his own encounter with it.
25 May
12.00, free
Flutes and Javanese gendèrs
(metallophones)
Newly commissioned works by Richard Causton, Symon Clarke and Robert Campion
with Isabelle Carré, flutes.
1 June
12.00, free
Surrounded!
New Live Electronic Music for Several Loudspeakers
by members of MEME@Anglia Ruskin University
directed by Julio d'Escriván
8 June
12.00, £6 (£4)
Messiaen the surrealist
Claire Booth, soprano and Ryan Wigglesworth, piano
Brilliant young soprano Claire Booth is here joined by her regular duo partner,
composer/conductor/pianist Ryan Wigglesworth. They perform Knussens’ luminous
settings of Walt Whitman, and give a rare performance of Messiaen’s
early, surrealist cycle in this his centenary year.
