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Institute of Musical Researchevents programme - autumn 2013

music.sas.ac.ukWelcome to the Institute of Musical Research.

The institute is funded to promote research from all UK institutions of Higher Education, facilitate research networks and provide training for postgraduate students. It provides links to the wider musical community, encourages cross-disciplinary projects, and enhances research impact through public events.

I look forward to welcoming you to the Institute of Musical Research.

Paul Archbold

The Institute of Musical Research is one of ten research institutes forming the School of Advanced Study, University of London, which is funded by the Higher Education Funding Council for England.

Institute of Advanced Legal Studies Institute of Classical Studies Institute of Commonwealth Studies Institute of English Studies Institute of Historical Research Institute of Latin American Studies Institute of Modern Languages Research Institute of Musical Research Institute of Philosophy The Warburg Institute

photo: Edward Baran

Institute of Musical Research, School of Advanced Study, University of London,Senate House, Malet Street, London WC1E 7HU, UK 020 7664 4865

cover illustration: Brian Ferneyhough Quirl, Edition Peters No.72457 Copyright 2013 by Hinrichsen Edition, Peters Edition Ltd, London. Reproduced by kind permission of the publisherProfessor Brian Ferneyhough is ST Lee Visiting Professorial Fellow for 2013-14 at the School of Advanced Study, University of London

Academic collaborators

AHRC Research Centre for Musical Performance as Creative PracticeBirmingham ConservatoireBritish Forum for EthnomusicologyBrunel UniversityCanterbury Christ Church UniversityCardiff UniversityCity University LondonGoldsmiths University of LondonGuildhall School of Music & DramaKing’s College LondonMiddlesex UniversityNational Association for Music in Higher EducationRoyal Academy of MusicRoyal College of MusicRoyal Holloway, University of London Royal Northern College of MusicRoyal Musical AssociationSchool of Oriental and African Studies, University of LondonUniversity of BirminghamUniversity of BristolUniversity of CambridgeUniversity of HuddersfieldUniversity of LiverpoolUniversity of ManchesterUniversity of NottinghamUniversity of OxfordUniversity of SheffieldUniversity of SouthamptonUniversity of SurreyYale University

With thanks to:

BBC Symphony OrchestraBarbican CentreBritish MuseumHuddersfield Contemporary Music FestivalArditti QuartetEnsemble ExposéElision Ensemble

Funding organisations

Higher Education Funding Council for EnglandHigher Education AcademyAga Khan Trust for CultureErnst von Siemens Music FoundationHepner Foundation

Directions in Musical Research

A series of seminars exploring new directions in musical research

Open to the public, free of charge

Monday 14 October, 17:00-18:30Chancellor’s Hall, Senate HouseChristopher Fox (Brunel) What we hear and what we understand: some thoughts about listening and literacyin assocation with Brunel University Centre for Contemporary Music PracticeChristopher Fox’s work Tales from Babel will receive its London première on 18 October at the Royal Academy of Music, London

Monday 21 October, 17:00-18:30Chancellor’s Hall, Senate HouseLaura Tunbridge (Manchester)Electric Schubert, 1928

Monday 18 November, 17:00-18:30Room 104, Senate HouseHelen Abbott (Sheffield) From Poem to Song and back: the spectre of music in 19th-century France

Monday 25 November, 19:00-21:00 NOTE TIMEChancellor’s Hall, Senate HouseBrian Ferneyhough in conversation with Colin Blakemoreto be followed by a concert by the Arditti Quartet

Promoted by the School of Advanced Study, University of London and the IMR in association with AHRC Research Centre for Musical Performance as Creative Practice and Royal Academy of MusicSupported by: Hepner Foundation, John Coffin Memorial Fund

For tickets please apply to music@sas.ac.uk ADMISSION FREE

See centre pages for further details of Brian Ferneyhough’s residency as ST Lee Visiting Professorial Fellow at the School of Advanced Study, University of London

Sponsored by the AHRC Research Centre for Musical Performance as Creative Practice and the Institute of Musical Research

Open to the public, free of charge

CMPCP/IMR Performance/Research seminars

Monday 7 October, 17:00-18:30Room 104, Senate HouseSalomé Voegelin (London College of Communication)Hearing the continuum of sound

Monday 28 October, 17:00-18:30Room G34, Senate HouseKaren Wise, Mirjam James and John Rink (Cambridge)The practice of creative performance

Date to be confirmed Monday 4 November, 17:00-18:30Chancellor’s Hall, Senate HouseTristan MurailThe distinguished French composer discusses his music.Tristan Murail’s new work Symphony is performed by the BBC Symphony Orchestra on Saturday 2 November at the Barbican Centre

Monday 11 November, 14:00-16:00 NOTE TIMEChancellor’s Hall, Senate HouseChristopher Redgate and Brian FerneyhoughChristopher Redgate demonstrates passages from Brian Ferneyhough’s new work Schatten aus Wasser und Stein for the Redgate/Howarth oboe and string quartet

Monday 9 December, 17:00-18:30Chancellor’s Hall, Senate HouseLaura Cull (University of Surrey)What might Schechner’s Performance Studies and the emerging field of Performance Philosophy mean for Music?

Conferences and SymposiaThursday 19 September - Saturday 21 SeptemberSenate HouseRoyal Musical Association 49th Annual ConferenceThe Peter Le Huray Lecture: Gianmario Borio (Università di Pavia) The Edward J. Dent Medal Lecture: Michel Duchesneau (University of Montréal)For further details please visit: music.sas.ac.ukDelegate fee payable Promoted by the Royal Musical Association in association with the IMR

Sunday 22 SeptemberBarbican CentreTotal Immersion: The Rite of Spring 10:30 Barbican Cinemas Film: Ballet Russes14:30 Barbican Cinemas Film: Riot at the Rite17:00 Frobisher Rooms Talk: Jonathan Cross introduces The Rite of Spring19:30 Barbican Hall Concert: BBC Symphony Orchestra perform Stravinsky The Rite of SpringSee back page for further detailsProduced by the BBC Symphony Orchestra

Tuesday 15 - Sunday 20 OctoberSenate House and several venuesBloomsbury FestivalA creative explosion of performance, art, music and storytelling taking place throughout the streets, parks, museums, libraries and laboratories of BloomsburyFor further details please visit: bloomsburyfestival.org.ukProduced by the Bloomsbury Festival in association with the School of Advanced Study, University of London

Friday 18 OctoberRoom G22/26, Senate HouseTranslating Music, AHRC Network, Seminar 3: Opera, Digital Media and TranslationConvenor: Helen Julia MinorsSpeakers to include:Ken Chalmers (Royal Opera House) and Sarah Weaver (Durham) in conversation with the project leaders, Lucile Desblache and Helen Julia MinorsTo book, please send an email to music@sas.ac.ukThe event is free of charge.

Wednesday 30th October 2013, 13:10-17:00PATS Studio 1, University of Surrey, Guildford, Surrey GU2 7XHRadical Interpretation in Classical Performance Participants to include:Mine Doğantan Dack (Middlesex), Daniel Leech Wilkinson (Kings College London)Tom Armstrong (Surrey), Steve Goss (Surrey), Laura Cull (Surrey), Matthew Wagner (Surrey)with Diana Gilchrist (soprano) and Naomi McLean (cello) Attendance at this event is free and there is no need to register.For further information please contact Dr. Tom Armstrong (t.armstrong@surrey.ac.uk)

Saturday 9 NovemberChancellor’s Hall, Senate HouseThe Future of Britten Keynote Lecture: Arnold WhittallFor further details please visit: music.sas.ac.ukThe event is free of charge.

The BBC Symphony Orchestra will perform the following works of Benjamin Britten at the Barbican Centre in November:Sunday 10 November War RequiemSaturday 23 November Albert HerringBox Office: 020 7638 8891barbican.org.uk

Friday 15 NovemberSudler Hall, Yale University, New Haven, Connecticut, USSacred and Secular Music of the Hundred Years War12:30 Research seminar19:30 Concert by the Orlando ConsortSponsored and promoted by the Medieval Song Network and the AHRCFurther information: music.sas.ac.uk/research-networks/medieval-song

Wednesday 4 December - Friday 6 DecemberSenate HouseICONEA Conference 2013The reliability in transmission in texts of musical theory in the Ancient World from sources to the present day: Mesopotamia, Ancient Turkey, the Levant, Ancient Egypt, Greece, Rome, Byzantium and the Occident.Convenor: Richard DumbrillPromoted by ICONEA in association with the IMR and the British Museum

Admission £75 (£45 students)Booking form: music.sas.ac.ukFurther information: www.iconea.org

Research TrainingA series of research training days and seminars

designed for postgraduate students

Advance booking required.For further details visit: music.sas.ac.uk

Monday 21 October 10:00-16:00Chancellor’s Hall, Senate House10:00 Getting PublishedLaura Tunbridge (Manchester, Editor Journal of the Royal Musical Association)Vicki Cooper (Editor Music, Cambridge University Press)14:00 The PhD vivaPhilip Grange (Manchester)Mark Everist (Southampton)A training day for postgraduate students in the closing stages of their doctoral programmeADMISSION FREEPlease send an email to music@sas.ac.uk

Monday 11 November 10:00-16:00Chancellor’s Hall, Senate HousePerforming Complex Contemporary MusicRoger Redgate (Goldsmiths), Neil Heyde (RAM), Christopher Redgate (RAM)ADMISSION FREETickets available from music@sas.ac.uk For further details of the residency of Brian Ferneyhough, please see centre pages

Friday 29 November 10:00-16.15British LibraryExploring Collections at the British LibraryPromoted by the British Library in association with the IMR and the Royal Musical AssociationADMISSION £5Booking details: www.bl.uk/whatson

NAMHE travel grantsStudents of UK Higher Education Institutions may apply for a grant to travel to Research Training events organised by the IMR. Please apply in advance to music@sas.ac.ukThis funding has been made available by the National Association for Music in Higher Education

ICONEA Near and Middle Eastern archeomusicology

All seminars are free of charge and open to the public.

Wednesday 23 October, 17:00-18:30Room 246, Senate HouseCharles LucyPitch, Pi, and Other Musical Paradoxes, or MusicAsEasyAsPi

Charles Lucy describes how he rediscovered the musical tuning theories of John ‘Longitude’ Harrison derived from the mathematical constant pi, and developed them into a new system of tuning. His presentation includes slides and musical examples of how this very specific meantone tuning can emulate any musical tuning system, modulate, or transpose, infinitely.The system has been extremely controversial in the ongoing “Tuning Wars”, as it presumes that musical harmonics are not restricted to the Just Intonation intervals traditionally calculated from small integer frequency ratios such as 3/2, 4/3, 6/5, 7/5, 8/5, etc.This system includes a method of scale coding, which can describe and sort a myriad of musical intervals and scales to arrange them in levels of consonance and dissonance.

Wednesday 13 November, 17:00-18:30Room 246, Senate HouseAhmad Mukhtarajnas, ‘uqud and the traditional maqam form in Iraq

Ahmad Mukhtar, a world renowned ‘udist, will explain the intricacies of the traditional Iraqi maqam with examples played on his Basrah ‘ud.

Wednesday 4 - Friday 6 December Senate HouseICONEA conference 2013The reliability in transmission in texts of musical theory in the Ancient World from sources to the present day: Mesopotamia, Ancient Turkey, the Levant, Ancient Egypt, Greece, Rome, Byzantium and the Occident.

Admission £75 (£45 students)Booking form: music.sas.ac.ukFurther information: www.iconea.org

Brian Ferneyhough at 70Professor Brian Ferneyhough, ST Lee Visiting Professorial Fellow for 2013-14

at the School of Advanced Study, University of London

Brian Ferneyhough, currently William H Bonsall Professor at Stanford University, is one of the most original and influential composers in contemporary music. His work, recognised by such international awards as the Ernst von Siemens Musikpreis, evokes a compressed musical world of dislocated events, colliding pulses and shimmering textures. His highly elaborate notational practice invites performers constantly to reassess and question their relationship to the text. For some five decades he has continuously engaged with and provoked the debate to define a new artistic aesthetic for contemporary music, whether as creator, thinker, writer or teacher, in Germany, Europe and the US. His visit to London, in his 70th year, is a fitting tribute to an outstanding career and an acknowledgement of his connection to the university following the award of an honorary doctorate in 2012.

Monday 11 November, 10:00-16:00IMR/SAS EVENT IMR Research Training Day: Performing Complex Contemporary MusicSpeakers to include: Neil Heyde, Roger Redgate, Christopher Redgateprogramme to include: 14:00-16:00 Lecture/demonstration: Schatten aus Wasser und Stein, Ferneyhough’s new work for the Redgate/Howarth oboe and string quartet with Christopher Redgate (oboe)Chancellor’s Hall, Senate House, University of LondonADMISSION FREE. Tickets available from music@sas.ac.ukPromoted by the Institute of Musical Research in association with AHRC Research Centre for Musical Performance as Creative Practice and the Royal Academy of Music

Saturday 16 November, 22:30Concert: Ensemble Linea and Irvine Ardittiprogramme to include: Ferneyhough Liber scintillarum (2012) UK premièreSt Paul’s Hall, University of HuddersfieldProduced by the Huddersfield Contemporary Music Festival

photo: Colin Still

music.sas.ac.uk/ferneyhough

Sunday 17 November, 11:00Brian Ferneyhough (interview)Produced by the Huddersfield Contemporary Music Festival

Sunday 17 November, 12:00Concert: Christopher Redgate (oboe), Quatuor Diotimaprogramme to include: Ferneyhough Schatten aus Wasser und Stein (world première) commissioned by Christopher Redgate with funds from the Arts and Humanities Research CouncilSt Paul’s Hall, University of HuddersfieldProduced by the Huddersfield Contemporary Music Festival

Wednesday 20 November, 17:15Book launch Lois Fitch Brian Ferneyhough (Intellect Books – Critical Guides to Contemporary Composers)Royal Northern College of Music, ManchesterPromoted by the Royal Northern College of Music

Friday 22 November, 13:00Concert: Nicolas Hodges (piano)programme to include: Ferneyhough Lemma-Icon-EpigramSt Paul’s Hall, University of HuddersfieldProduced by the Huddersfield Contemporary Music Festival

Monday 25 November, 13:00IMR/SAS EVENTConcert: Nicolas Hodges (piano)programme to include: Ferneyhough Epigrams Ferneyhough Three Pieces for Piano Ferneyhough Lemma-Icon-Epigram Ferneyhough Opus Contra NaturamChancellor’s Hall, Senate House, University of LondonADMISSION FREE. Tickets available from music@sas.ac.ukPromoted by the Institute of Musical Research. Supported by the Hepner Foundation

Monday 25 NovemberIMR/SAS EVENT19:00 Brian Ferneyhough in conversation with Colin Blakemore20:00 Concert: Arditti Quartet Ferneyhough String Quartet no. 2 Ferneyhough Dum Transisset Ferneyhough String Quartet no. 6 Chancellor’s Hall, Senate House, University of LondonADMISSION FREE. Tickets available from music@sas.ac.ukPromoted by the School of Advanced Study, University of London and the IMR in association with AHRC Research Centre for Musical Performance as Creative Practice and Royal Academy of MusicSupported by the Hepner Foundation

New Music InsightA new resource for the academic community

Research documentaries, performances and lectureshosted on the London University platform of iTunesU

music.sas.ac.uk/music-video/new-music-insight

Sir Harrison Birtwistle & David Harsentin conversation with Fiona Sampson

Sir Harrison Birtwistle and David Harsent discuss their recent dramatic collaborations, with particular reference to The Minotaur and The Corridor.

Lecture supported by the John Coffin Memorial Fund and the Hepner Foundation. Film supported by a grant from the Higher Education Academy.

Sir Peter Maxwell DaviesMaster of the Queen’s Music

Changing Face of ‘New’ Music

Sir Peter Maxwell Davies re-evaluates Anton Webern’s lecture The Path to the New Music with perceptive insights into the contemporary cultural world.

Lecture supported by the John Coffin Memorial Fund

Poetry, Music, Drama:the creation of contemporary operaLecture by Jonathan CrossRoundtable discussions with:John Casken, Michael Symmons Roberts, Robert Saxton and Andrew Watts, chaired by Paul Archbold & Fiona Sampson

Conference supported by the IMR, IES and the Hepner Foundation. Film supported by a grant from the Higher Education Academy.

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Documentaries and performances

Arditti Quartet perform Jonathan Harvey String Quartet no. 2A film by Paul Archbold and Colin Still of a performance of Jonathan Harvey’s String Quartet no. 2 at St Giles’ Cripplegate, London in January 2012.

Arditti Quartet perform Jonathan Harvey String Quartet no. 4A film by Paul Archbold and Colin Still of a performance of Jonathan Harvey’s String Quartet no. 4 at Jerwood Hall, LSO St Luke’s, London in January 2012.

Jonathan Harvey String Quartet no. 4: Notes towards an analysisMichael Clarke discusses Jonathan Harvey’s String Quartet no. 4 with illustrations by the Arditti quartet and Gilbert Nouno

Arditti Quartet perform Wolfgang Rihm String Quartet no. 13A film by Paul Archbold and Colin Still of a performance of Wolfgang Rihm’s String Quartet no. 13 at St Giles’ Cripplegate, London in January 2012.

Wolfgang Rihm in conversation with Lucas FelsWolfgang Rihm discusses his string quartets

Arditti Quartet perform Brian Ferneyhough String Quartet no. 6A film by Paul Archbold and Colin Still of a performance of Brian Ferneyhough’s String Quartet no. 6 at Donaueschinger MusikTage in October 2010.

Climbing a Mountain: Arditti Quartet rehearse Brian Ferneyhough String Quartet no. 6A film by Paul Archbold and Colin Still tracing the Arditti Quartet’s rehearsals for the première of Brian Ferneyhough’s String Quartet no. 6

Christopher Redgate ‘Multiphonia’Christopher Redgate performs his virtuoso work on the new Redgate/Howarth oboe system, accompanied by several films in which Christopher Redgate discusses the creation of the new oboe, supported by an AHRC Creative and Performance Research Fellowship.

Paul Archbold ‘Fluxions’Christopher Redgate and Ensemble Exposé perform Paul Archbold’s Fluxions, accompanied by a documentary in which Christopher Redgate and Paul Archbold discuss the composition of the work.

Liza Lim ‘The Navigator’ELISION ensemble perform Liza Lim’s opera

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Symposium- The Instrument in Musical Performance

Neil Heyde (RAM) Choreographing the Instrument, Body and Ensemble

Anthony Rooley ‘Music is nothing more than a Decoration of Silence’ (Marsilio Ficino, c.1485)

Mine Doğantan Dack (Middlesex) ‘The least expressive instrument’ (Harold Bauer, 1917)

Conference- (M)other Russia: Evolution or Revoultion

Sir Rodric Braithwaite (former UK Ambassador to Russia) Russia Now

Conference- Musical Geographies of Central Asia

Saida Daukeyeva (IMR) East vs West: regional styles of dombyra performance and their representation in music practice and discourse in modern Kazakhstan

Theodore Levin (Dartmouth College) The Geography of Possibility: Mapping the Future of the Past in Central Asian Music

Megan M Rancier (Bowling Green State University) Narratives of Ancientness and Kazakh Nationhood in the Music of the “Turan” Ensemble

Stephanie Bunn (University of St Andrews) The body and the landscape in Kyrgyz poetics: topography resonance and image in contemporary Kyrgyz epic

Lecture podcasts (2011-13)

Mozart’s Kegelstatt Trio: an eighteenth-century conversation

Mozart Trio in Eb, for clarinet, viola and fortepiano, ‘Kegelstatt’ K.498 John Irving, Jane Booth and Peter CollyerThree films including a documentary on the work, a performance on historical instruments, and an introduction to the historical keyboards at Finchcocks MuseumAvailable for download from iTunesU, and streaming via YouTubeA DVD is available from the IMR. Please send an email to: music@sas.ac.uk

DeNOTE performances:

10 October 19:00 University of AberdeenBeethoven Bonanza:

Beethoven Sonata for Basset Horn and piano, Op.17 (arr Friedlowsky) Sonata for piano and violoncello in G minor, Op.5, no. 2 Trio for clarinet, cello and piano, Op.38Jane Booth (clarinet), Jennifer Morsches (cello), John Irving (piano)preceded by a research seminar at 16:00

www.abdn.ac.uk/music/events Telephone: +44 (0)1224 272570 Email: music@abdn.ac.uk

18 October 13:00 St Cecilia’s Hall, Edinburgh

Beethoven Trio for clarinet, cello and piano, Op.38Jane Booth (clarinet), Jennifer Morsches (cello), John Irving (piano)

www.euchmi.ed.ac.uk/uote.html Email: euchmi@ed.ac.uk

DeNOTE:Centre for eighteenth-century performance practice

An international network supporting resources for researchers interested in music criticism and in the more general musical culture

of the nineteenth century in France.

music.sas.ac.uk/fmc

The Press is central to the understanding of French history in the 19th century, whether the inquiry is directed towards foreign affairs, transport, agriculture or the performing arts. Its various forms – daily newspapers, specalist publications and non-specialist periodicals – provide not only data about performances, artists and their mentalités but also permit close readings of the language underpinning their aesthetic and ideological judgements.

The Francophone Music Criticism project started life in 2006 as an AHRC Network based at the IMR and led by Katharine Ellis (RHUL) and Mark Everist (University of Southampton). It brings together a worldwide network of around 160 bilingual scholars to create an open-access online resource of music-critical texts from nineteenth-century France, and to provide an environment in which the group can take forward historical, linguistic and aesthetic concerns central to French artistic culture of the nineteenth century.

We run a Jiscmail discussion list FRENCH-MUS-CRIT@jiscmail.ac.uk which ensures ready virtual contact (new members always welcome!), but our main public face is our collection of over 1500 press reviews (23 anthologies; approx. three million words).

If you are interested in joining the project, please email: katharine.ellis@bristol.ac.uk or katharine.ellis@sas.ac.uk

Coming in Autumn 2013: the final phase of articles by critic Joseph d’Ortigue, completing a set of over 600; and a dossier de presse of Mercadante’s opera ‘I briganti’ (1836).

BBC Symphony OrchestraStudents are invited to attend selected BBC Symphony Orchestra rehearsals in Maida Vale Studios as the orchestra prepares for the following concerts at the Barbican Hall.

Please note that the dates are for the concerts, not the rehearsals. To book a place, and for details of rehearsal times, please send an email to: music@sas.ac.uk

Students are required to bring scores of repertoire works. The IMR will endeavour to provide scores of newly-commissioned works.

The BBC Symphony Orchestra offers a ticket discount scheme for students. Please email:bbcsostudentzone@bbc.co.uk

Sunday 22 September, 19:30Total Immersion: The Rite of Spring 1913Weber, orch. Berlioz Invitation to the DanceChopin Andante spianato et Grande polonaise brillanteBorodin Polovtsian DancesChopin, arr. Stravinsky Grande valse brillanteStravinsky The Rite of Spring

Alexander Vedernikov, conductorAlexei Volodin, piano

Saturday 2 November, 19:30Tristan Murail Symphony (BBC co-commission: world première)Shostakovich Piano Concerto No.1 Mahler Symphony No. 1 in D major

Sakari Oramo, conductorOlli Mustonen, pianoSergei Nakariakov, trumpet

Saturday 23 November, 19:00Britten Albert Herring

Steuart Bedford conductorChristine Brewer, Lady BillowsGaynor Keeble, Florence PikeGillian Keith, Miss WordsworthRoderick Williams, Mr GedgeAdrian Thompson, Mr UpfoldMatthew Rose, Superintendent BuddMarcus Farnsworth, SidAndrew Staples, Albert HerringKitty Whately, NancyCatherine Wyn-Rogers, Mrs HerringPaul Curran, director

Forthcoming IMR events in spring 2014

Friends of the IMR

Friends of the IMR receive the following benefits:

• Free reference access to Senate House Library and its outstanding music collection• Discounted fee for IMR research training events• IMR brochure sent to you by post or email• Invitation to special Friends of the IMR events

Annual fee £45 (students £10)Donations welcome

For further details, please see: music.sas.ac.uk

Friday 14 February, 10:00Chancellor’s Hall, Senate HouseMusic from Scotlandpromoted by the IMR in association with the BBC Symphony Orchestra’s festivalTotal Immersion: Thea Musgrave on Saturday 15 February

Friday 7 March, 10:00Chancellor’s Hall, Senate HouseMusic from Latin Americapromoted by the IMR and ILAS in association with the BBC Symphony Orchestra’s festivalTotal Immersion: Villa Lobos on Saturday 8 March

Saturday 8 March, 10:00Chancellor’s Hall, Senate HouseInternational Bagpipe Conferencepromoted by the International Bagpipe Society in association with SOAS

Sunday 25 May, 10:00Barbican CentreHarrison Birtwistle Study Dayproduced by the BBC Symphony Orchestra in association with the Barbican Centre, Britten Sinfonia, London Symphony Orchestra and IMR

Royal Musical Association Annual Conference 2013

Institute of Musical ResearchSenate House, Malet Street, London WC1E 7HU

19-21 September 2013• Morethan75speakersfrom10differentcountries• 13paneldiscussionsbyinternationallyrenownedacademics• Researchpapersonmusicasmanuscript,asrecording,andasperformance• Themedsessionsonmusic’srelationshiptootherart-formsandtothesciences• Postersessionandperformanceworkshopshowcasingcurrentandrecently completed major Arts and Humanities Research Council projects

• TheEdwardJ.DentMedalPresentationandLecture: Michel Duchesneau (University of Montréal)

• ThePeterLeHurayLecture: Gianmario Borio (Università di Pavia)

• Exhibitionofbooksandothermaterials• DrinksreceptionssponsoredbyRoutledgeandbyAshgatePublishing• Opportunitiestoattendeveningeventsinoneoftheculturalcapitalsoftheworld• TheAnnualGeneralMeetingoftheRoyalMusicalAssociation• MeetingroomfacilitiesforRMA-networkedsocieties

To see the programme and register for the Conference please visit the IMR website music.sas.ac.uk/events/conferences/rma-annual-conference .

For queries about the conference please contact Valerie James at music@sas.ac.uk .

For further information about membership of the Royal Musical Association please contact Helen Thomas, Membership Development Officer, Royal Musical Association at membership@rma.ac.uk.

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FILM | 10.30am | Barbican Cinemas

Ballets Russes An intimate, moving portrait of a group of pioneering artists who gave birth to modern ballet. £6

FILM | 2.00pm | Barbican Cinemas

Riot at the Rite A star cast of Alex Jennings, Adam Garcia, Rachael Stirling and Griff Rhys Jones bring to life the events leading up to the infamous and riotous first performance of The Rite of Spring. £6

TALK | 5.00pm | Frobisher Rooms

An introduction to Stravinsky’s The Rite of Spring.Admission free. Limited capacity.

BBC SO PLUS FAMILY6.00pm | Fountain RoomAn introduction to tonight’s concert for families.

Total Immersion: The Rite of Spring 1913SUNDAY 22 SEPTEMBER 2013

To mark the 100th anniversary of the riotous premiere of The Rite of Spring, the BBC SO presents a whole day of events including two retrospective films, culminating in an evening performance that recreates the explosive musical cocktail of the premiere in 1913.

(Booking fees apply)

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CONCERT7.30pm | Barbican HallWeber, orch. Berlioz Invitation to the DanceChopin Andante spianato et Grande polonaise brillanteBorodin Polovtsian DancesChopin, arr. Stravinsky Grande valse brillanteStravinsky The Rite of Spring

BBC Symphony OrchestraAlexander Vedernikov conductorAlexei Volodin piano

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Day Passes available