Department of Music

Concerts and events

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2008 Concerts & Events

January 2008

Lifelong Learning: The Desire of Heavenly Harmonies
Lifelong Learning: Mahler - the Mighty Symphonist
Lifelong Learning: Ghanaian Drumming - Beginners
Lifelong Learning: West African Drumming - Advanced [Part 2]
Research Seminar - Matthias Strassmüller, University of Bristol: Growing plants in a soniferous garden: evolving ideas in my recent composition work
Lunchtime concert - Emerald String Quartet
Lifelong Learning: Unnatural. Horror Film Scores and Strategies of Transgression
Lifelong Learning: Colours of the Celestial City: The Music of Messiaen
Lunchtime concert - Gemini
Lunchtime concert - University Chamber Orchestra and Choir

February 2008

Research Seminar - Richard Barnard, Bristol: Seeking Otto: uncovering the life of a professional musician in Edwardian Bath through musicological research and original composition
Lunchtime concert - University New Music Ensemble
Saturday workshop: Vaughan Williams, Hardy and the Ninth Symphony
Evening concert - University Symphony Orchestra and Singers
Lunchtime concert - Peter Hill and Benjamin Frith (piano duet)
The Eve of Revolution Lunchtime Concert: Young Artists II
Lunchtime concert - University Madrigal Ensemble
Lifelong Learning: Choral Dayschool: Music of the Restoration
Lifelong Learning: Bristol Does Brass
Research Seminar - Andrew Britton, Royal Holloway: The guitar and iconography
Lunchtime concert - given by students of the Music Department
Lunchtime concert - University Jazz Orchestra
Lifelong Learning: Modernism in a Nutshell
Evening concert - University Chamber Orchestra and Choir
Research Seminar - Barry Marsh, Newton Abbot: E J Moeran: a twin heritage
Lunchtime concert - Raymond Clarke (piano)

March 2008

Evening concert - University Wind and String Orchestras
Research Seminar - Marina Frolova-Walker, University of Cambridge: The glib, the bland, and the corny: an aesthetic of socialist realism
Lunchtime concert - University Singers and String Ensemble
Lifelong Learning: Schumann's Unique Symphonic Output - Between Beethoven and Brahms
Lifelong Learning: Musicianship Grades 6-7 [Part 3]
Research Seminar - Barry Sterndale-Bennett, Trinity College of Music: William Sterndale Bennett: his influence on 19th-century music in Britain
Lunchtime concert - Sonic Voyages: A concert of sound-art curated by Matthias Strassmüller and guests
Lifelong Learning: Musicianship Grades 1-5 [Part 3]
Lifelong Learning: Understanding the Autograph of Mozart's Piano Concerto, K. 488 in A Major
Lunchtime concert - Bristol Hornstars
Evening concert: University Choral Society and Symphony Orchestra
Research Seminar - Stephen Banfield, University of Bristol: Why did the vicar remove the organ? Work in progress on music in the British Empire

April 2008

Research Seminar - Christopher Fifield, University of Bristol: 19th-century Leipzig, a centre for study and performance: musical fact or myth?
Lunchtime concert - Jeremy Huw Williams (baritone), Nigel Foster (piano)
Research Seminar - Anthony Pryer, Goldsmiths’, University of London: Performance interpretation: elucidation, elaboration and the bizarre
Lunchtime concert - Jane Booth (classical clarinets), John Irving (harpsichord and fortepiano)

May 2008

Loveday Lecture - Professor Gavin Bryars: Finding a Voice
Lifelong Learning: 18th Century Choral Music
Lifelong Learning: Jazz Improvisation Workshop
Lifelong Learning: Go Gospel!
Research Seminar - Alexandra Wilson, Oxford Brookes University: The land without opera? Investigating 20th-century British operatic culture
Lunchtime concert - University Singers
Lifelong Learning: The Symphony is Dead, Long Live the Symphony! - New Approaches to Symphonic Form in the 20th Century
Lunchtime concert - University String Orchestra
Lifelong Learning: African Drumming Workshop

June 2008

Gala Concert 2008: University Symphony Orchestra, Chamber Orchestra and Chamber Choir

October 2008

Lifelong Learning: African Drumming - Beginners
Lifelong Learning: Musicianship Grades 6-7 [Part 1]
Lifelong Learning: African Drumming - Advanced
Research Seminar - Joanna Bullivant: Modernism, politics and individuality: British music and the Left in the 1930s
Lunchtime concert - Harmonie Musik
Lifelong Learning: Musicianship Grades 1-5 [Part 1]
Lifelong Learning: Joy of the Blood of the Stars - Olivier Messiaen and the Music of Eternity
Research Seminar - Anahid Kassabian: New Media, Affect, and the Problem of Simultaneity
Lunchtime concert - Susan Milan (flute), Andrew Ball (piano)
Lunchtime concert - Paul Walton (organ)
Lifelong Learning: Sing the Songbooks - Cole Porter
Lifelong Learning: From Taverner to Tavener (via Byrd and Part)
Research Seminar - Simon Waters: Touching at a distance: Music's virtual tactility and proxemics
Lunchtime concert - Felicity Vincent (cello), Dominic Saunders (piano)
Lunchtime concert - David Bednall (organ)
Lifelong Learning: Will Todd's 'Mass in Blue' Singing Day
Research Seminar - Eduardo Miranda: On Composing Music with Surreal Languages: The Artificial Phonology of Sacra Conversazione
Lunchtime concert - Michael Ierace (piano)
Lunchtime concert - Jennifer Bate (organ)

November 2008

Research Seminar - Sally Harper: Wales, the true remnant of the ancient Britons? English perceptions of late medieval Welsh musical culture
Lunchtime concert - Sonic Voyages: Contact
Evening concert - Martinu String Quartet
Lunchtime concert - An 80th birthday concert for Raymond Warren
Lifelong Learning: Brass Bands in the 1960s
Lifelong Learning: Making Music Workshop - Sight-singing
Research Seminar - Wyndham Thomas: Tom Moore - Making Music with the Nobility in Wiltshire and beyond (c.1820-1850)
Lunchtime concert - New Noise: Janey Miller (oboe), Joby Burgess (percussion)
Lifelong Learning: The Music of Herbert Howells
Lunchtime concert - Music from Georgian Bristol
Research Seminar - Susan Boynton: Boy Singers in Medieval Monasteries and Cathedrals
Lunchtime concert - James Geer (tenor), Ronald Woodley (piano)
Lifelong Learning: Free Lecture - What can we learn from a fragment of an English chant manuscript?
Lunchtime concert - Bristol University Wind Orchestra
Lifelong Learning: Introduction to the Alexander Technique
Lifelong Learning: Mahler's Sixth Symphony - 'The Only Sixth'
Colston Lecture - Professor Peter Hill: Messiaen and birdsong in the 1950s
Lunchtime concert - Bristol University Singers
CHOMBEC study day: The Sounds of Stonehenge
Lunchtime concert - Bristol University String Orchestra
Evening concert - University Symphony Orchestra

December 2008

Research Seminar - Sue Cole: Traditions and revivals: continuity and change in the late nineteenth-century reception of the English virginalists
Lunchtime concert - University Chamber Choir
Lifelong Learning: Sir Charles Villiers Stanford (1852-1924)
Lifelong Learning: Carols Ancient and Modern
Evening concert - University Chamber Orchestra
Research Seminar/Lecture-Recital - Raymond Clarke and Professor Anthony Powers: Elliott Carter's Piano Sonata and Night Fantasies
Lunchtime concert - University New Music Ensemble
Lunchtime concert - Schola Cantorum