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Programme of Spring Events 2013
FREE CONCERTS, TALKS & RESEARCH SEMINARS – ALL WELCOME
30 January, 2.00pm, The Chapel: Francis Poulenc In Memoriam – 50thAnniversary Recital and Talks
Dr Philippe Cathé (Maître de conferences, HDR), ‘Approaches to Francis Poulenc’s Musical Language’ Michael Bell (piano, Keele University) and Karen Radcliffe (mezzo-soprano, Keele University):
(Poulenc, Banalités, Fiançailles pour rire, Tel Jour, Telle Nuit)
Prof. Barbara Kelly (Keele University), ‘Poulenc and Stravinsky: Musical Influence, Crisis, or Complicity?’
6 February, 2.00pm, Lecture Room, The Clock House: Musical Geographies Seminar
Dr Paul Simpson (Keele University): ‘Street Music and the City: Bodies, Rhythms, and Performing in Public Spaces’
13 February, 2.00pm, Lindsay Studio Theatre 2: Encounters in the Republic of Heaven
Composer Trevor Wishart introduces, performs and discusses his electroacoustic epic, Encounters in the Republic of Heaven
20 February, 2.00pm, The Chapel: Hindemith’s Das Marienleben Lecture-Recital
Michael Bell (piano, Keele University) performs and introduces Hindemith’s extraordinary, rarely heard Das Marienleben
6 March, 2.00pm, The Chapel: Revealing Sound: Performing Experimental Music Lecture-Recital
Dr Philip Thomas (piano, University of Huddersfield) performs and then discusses the challenges of performing:
Christopher Fox L’ascenseur (2012), Richard Glover Logical Harmonies (1) (2011), Marc SabatNocturne (1996),
Martin Arnold Points and Waltzes (2012)
13 March, 2.00pm, Lecture Room, The Clock House: Keele University SEMPREseminar
Prof. Adam Ockelford (University of Roehampton): ‘The Impact of “Extreme Early Cognitive Environments” (“EECEs”) on the Developing Musicality of Children on the Autism Spectrum’
Dr Katherine Finlay (University of Buckingham): ‘Using Music to Enhance Post-operative Recovery and Pain Management’
20 March, 2.00pm. The Chapel: Berkeley and Britten Recital and Talks
Prof. Emeritus Peter Dickinson (Keele University):‘Berkeley and Friends’
Michael Bell (piano, Keele University) and Karen Radcliffe (mezzo-soprano, Keele University):
(Dickinson an ee cummings song cycle, Britten The Poet's Echo (Pushkin), Berkeley Five Poems of W.H. Auden, Dickinson Extravaganzas)
Rebecca Thumpston (Keele University): ‘Hidden Voices: Agential Figures in Britten’s Symphony for Cello and Orchestra’
ALL ENQUIRIES TO DR NICHOLAS REYLAND, MUSIC (n.w.reyland@keele.ac.uk) OR TO THE MUSIC OFFICE (Ext. 33295)
PREVIOUS FORUM EVENTS
December 2012
Professor Mike Vaughan (Keele): ‘Recent works’
Konstantinos Vasilakos (Keele): ‘Humanizing Technology’
November 2012
Dr Ed Venn (Lancaster): ‘Where aren’t the Wild Things? Darkness in the Music of Oliver Knussen’
October 2012
Dr Martin Parker (Edinburgh): ‘Introducing GruntCount’
October 2012
Dr Sohrab Uduman (Keele): ‘Forms and Images: Recent Works'
October 2012
Andy Quin: ‘Keele, Composing, Computers and Jazz: Music for the Big and Little Screen’
March 2012
Series of recitals and seminars on Debussy marking the 150th anniversary of his birth.
Recitals (Roy Howat, Karen Radcliffe, Michael Bell) included Preludes for Piano, books 1 and 2 complete and the song cycle ‘Proses Lyniques’
Talks - Professor Barbara Kelly, University of Keele.
February 2012
Becky Thumpston – Keele University ‘Agency, Narrativity and the Elgar Cello Concerto’
February 2012
Recital - Lutoslawski Chamber Works
Talk - Adrian Thomas ‘Lutoslawski’s Carpet, and Other Tales’
December 2011
RECITAL - Karen Radcliffe (voice) , Michael Bell (piano)
Mahler- Lieder eines fahrenden Gesellen, Zemlinsky(arr. Uduman) Sechs Gesänge op.13, Mahler- Rückert Lieder
TALK - 'Narrative Form and Mahler’s Musical Thinking’ Professor Robert Samuels - Open University
December 2011
Professor Clarence Barlow. University of California
November 2011
Gilles Gobeil Portrait Concert for Ondes Martinot and Electroacoustics
November 2011
Voice and Piano students from Keele University and MMU. Recital of Mahler Songs from Des Knaben Wunderhorn
October 2011
Marie Bennett-University of Keele ‘Mozart myths/Mozart in Film’
March 2011
Chris Moore (University of Ottawa) `Poulenc's Spiritual World”
March 2011
Russian Recital with Karen Radcliffe/Michael Bell Rachmaninov- 6 Songs op 3, Mussorgsky - The Nursery, Shostakovich - Satires op 109
February 2011
Lutoslawski -Recital Nick Reyland (Keele University) “The Spaces of Modernism: Lutoslawski's Heterotopias”
December 2010
Fred Maus (University of Virginia) “We were at the Beach: politics and the B-52's”
November 2010
Dr David Berezan (Manchester University) “Space and my Acoustic Music”
November 2010
Barbara Kelly (Keele University) “New Music, New Sonorities on the Eve of World War 1”
November 2010
David Fanning (University of Manchester) “20th century music histories Miecyzslaw Weinberg- a case in point”
May 2010
Robert Schumann Bicentennial Festival, 1810-1910 Robert Schumann BicentennialRobert Schumann Bicentennial
March 2010
Research Recital Music by Fauré and Ravel performed by Michael Bell and Karen Radcliffe followed with a talk given by Prof. Barbara Kelly, Keele, ‘Ravel, Histoires Naturelles; scientific borrowings and unreal dramas’
February 2010
Research Recital Music by Charles Ives (Piano Sonata No.2) performed by Dominic Saunders and Anne Lake followed by a talk given by Grahame Shrubsole, of Manchester Metropolitan University. ‘Charles Ives-Nostalgia and the Unknown, Tradition and Iconoclasm’
December 2009
Research Recital Music by Rachmaniniov and Lutoslawski performed by Tatyana Iskanderova and Michael Bell
October 2009
Research Seminar by Dr Javier Garavaglia: ‘Raising awareness of complete automation of DSP events in live electronics from an historical perspective’
October 2009
Research Recital Music by Haydn and Mozart performed by Michael Bell and Karen Radcliffe
Research Seminar given by Dr Michael Spitzer (University of Durham) ‘Analysing Musical Emotion:Anger and Tenderness in Mozart.’
March 2009
Electronic Music Research Recital Prof. Barry Truax (Simon Fraser University - Canada) including works by for 8channel audio. Lecture by Prof. Barry Truax 'Microsound and Soundscape Composition'
March 2009
Research Recital Music by Messiaen performed by soprano Karen Radcliffe (Keele) and Michael Bell (Keele). Seminar on Messiaen by Prof. Nigel Simeone (Sheffield)
February 2009
Andy Quin (jazz pianist, music producer and composer of television & film music, ex Keele student). Research Recital & Lecture.
February 2009
Research Recital Music by Ravel, Dalla Piccola, performed by Keele students' ensemble. Seminar on Dalla Piccola by Prof. Raymond Fearne (Keele)
November 2008
Research Recital Music by Stravinsky performed by Tatyana Iskandrova & Michael Bell (Keele). Seminar on Stravinsky by Prof. Jonathan Cross (Oxford)
November 2008
Research Recital Music by Ravel, Debussy, Shostakovich. Seminar on Ravel by Prof. Barbara Kelly (Keele)
October 2008
Research Recital New music for bass clarinet (Sarah Watts) and electronics by Fischman (Keele), Uduman (Keele), Spasov (Keele) and Vaughan (Keele)
October 2008
Research Recital Compositions by Mozart, Duparc, Debussy, Uduman (Keele) and Fischman (Keele)
May 2008
BEYOND THE DANCE Study Day for Research Students.
April 2008
Dr Janet Halfyard Seminar: ‘ “And Cue the big theme”: Music and the construction of the superhero’
March 2008
Dr Robert Adlington Seminar topic: Dutch music and culture since WW2
February 2008
Prof. John Sloboda Seminar topic: extremes of musical ability
February 2008
Dr Nicola Dibben Seminar topic: "Conceptual and sonic unity in the music of Björk"
November 2007
Prof. Roger Nichols Lecture-recital: ‘France, Harlequin and the Piano, 1917-1930’
October 2007
Prof. Steven Mithen (University of Reading) Seminar: Music and Evolution
October 2007
Prof. David Nicholls (Umiversity of Southampton) Seminar: ‘Demythologising Ives’
March 2007
Prof. Anahid Kassabian (University of Liverpool, School of Music). "Hearing as a Contact Sense".
February 2007
Dr. Barbara Kelly (Keele University, School of Humanities - Music). Lecture: "Art and Conflict: music in transition in WW1 France"
Michael Bell, Tatiana Iskandarova (Keele University). Concert: Music for two pianos: Stravinsky, Sonata; Debussy, En Blanc et Noir; Poulenc, Sonata for 2 pianos; Lutoslawski, Variations on a theme of Pagannini
February 2007
Dr. Nick Reyland (Keele University, School of Humanities - Music). "The Beginning of a Beautiful Friendship? On Musical Film Music Analysis".
December 2006
Dr. Alex Lamont (Keele University, School of Psychology). "Musical Engagement in Everyday Life".
December 2006
Prof. Adam Krims (The University of Nottingham, School of Humanities). "The Urban Ethos and Changing Cities".
November 2006
Prof. Peter Nelson (University of Edinburgh, School of Arts, Culture and Environment). "Writing Time - some thoughts on rhythm, regularity and the body"
October 2006
Prof. Marco Stroppa (Staatliche Hochschule Für Musik Und Darstellende Kunst Stuttgart). "From Traiettoria To Little I: on the creative exchange between acoustic instruments and computers"
October 2006
Dr. Miroslav Spasov (Keele University, School of Humanities - Music). "Listening to Audiences": recent compositions involving instruments and live electronics; composers' and audiences' perception of musical structures
March 2006
Yehezkel Braun, Emeritus Professor, Faculty of Arts - University of Tel Aviv, Lecture
Concert of Ensemble Meitar - works by Amit Dolberg, Yehezkel Braun and other
December 2005
Guest Lecture by Dr. Steven Downes - University of Surrey (UK)
'A comparative study of harmonic technique and symbolism in the final cadences of Twilight of the Gods, Salome and Elektra'
November 2005
Guest Lecture by Prof. Stephen Banfield - University of Bristol (UK) 'Speaking with a harmonic accent: a French cadential trait'
November 2005
Guest Lecture and Concert for piano and live electronics by Dr. Bob Gluck - University at Albany - State University of New York (USA)
November 2005
Guest Lecture by Prof. Richard Langham Smith - University of Exeter (UK). 'Transgressions in Bizet's 'Carmen': Tobacco, Sex and bullfighting'
November 2005
Guest Lecture by Prof. Steve Goss - University of Surrey (UK)
November 2005
Guest Lecture/Concert by Orlando Garcia - Florida International University (USA)
October 2005
Guest Lecture/Concert of music for saxophone and electronics by Gianpaolo Antongirolami - Conservatorio "F. Morlacchi" di Perugia (Italy)
October 2005
Workshop/concert for composition students on music for bass clarinet and electronics by Sarah Watts (Italy)
October 2005
Guest lecture/concert by Prof. João Pedro Oliveira - University of Aveiro (Portugal). Music for instruments and tape.
February 2005
Guest lecture/concert by Prof. Denis Smalley - City University (London). Music for solo tape on Keele Audio Visual Exhibition System.
Dr David Berezan (Manchester University)
“Space and my Acoustic Music”
Nov 10th Keele Chapel;
1.15pm Debussy-Chansons de Bilitis
Delage- Quatre Poèmes Hindous
2.00pm
Barbara Kelly (Keele University) “New Music, New Sonorities on the Eve of World War 1”
Nov 24th 1.15pm Keele Chapel;
David Fanning (University of Manchester) “20th century music histories
Miecyzslaw Weinberg- a case in point”
Dec 1st 1.15pm Moser Centre;
Fred Maus (University of Virginia)
“We were at the Beach: politics and the B-52's”
Feb 9th 1.15pm Keele Chapel;
Russian Recital with Karen Radcliffe/Michael Bell
Rachmaninov- 6 Songs op 38
Mussorgsky - The Nursery
Shostakovich - Satires op 109
Feb 23rd Keele Chapel;
1.15pm Lutos?awski -Recital
2.15pm Nick Reyland (Keele University)
“The Spaces of Modernism: Lutoslawski's Heterotopias”
Mar 2nd 1.15pm Clock House Lecture room;
Chris Moore (University of Ottawa)
`Poulenc's Spiritual World”
