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British premiere of Spohr opera
A 180-year-old opera deemed too risquéfor widespread public performance in the 19th century received its British premiere at the University of Leeds in March 2009.
Pietro von Abano, by the German composer Louis Spohr, tells the story of medieval physician and teacher, Pietro, who uses sorcery to bring a female pupil back to life to satisfy his lust for her. Her reanimated corpse meets her still living husband-to-be, who then battles to ensure his dead fiancée receives the benediction of a priest which will allow her soul to rest in peace.
The opera was composed in 1827 and fellow musicians and composers (including the respected Giacomo Meyerbeer) considered it a musical and dramatic masterpiece. But the risqué nature of the plot offended early 19th-century sensibilities and prevented it from being performed more widely.
The production at the University of Leeds represented the first time Spohr’s opera had been staged in Britain and coincided with the 150th anniversary of the composer’s death.
The performance was organised by the School of Music in collaboration with the School of Performance and Cultural Industries as part of the Opera North-University of Leeds Partnership.
Professor Clive Brown, Head of the School of Music, said: “This was a tremendous team effort, and we were specially grateful to Opera North’s Head of Music, Martin Pickard, for generous support and advice. It was thrilling to hear this fine dramatic music brought to life again after more than a century of silence.”
The opera was presented over two nights in the Riley Smith Hall in the Students Union. The opera was conducted by Clive Brown; Bryan White was chorus master and Ashley Layton, producer.
Conciding with the production was a one-day international Symposium, ‘Sex and sensationalism in Early Romantic opera’, with invited papers by distinguished German and British scholars. The event explored the wider context of the Spohr opera.
Farewell concert: Composer finishes on high note
A concert celebrating the career of Philip Wilby, a staff member in the School of Music for more than 30 years, was staged in the University of Leeds’ Great Hall in November 2008.
Students from the School under the direction of Eno Koço performed a concert of work by Walton and Wilby, featuring his Euphonium Concerto, with Black Dyke principal David Thornton as the soloist.
The soloist’s presence was significant: Professor Wilby has had a long association with the Black Dyke Band, with whom he has recorded and performed over many years.
A special guest at the concert was the Albanian ambassador, Zef Mazi, who was invited by his compatriot, Dr. Koço to share in the celebrations. As the euphonium is relatively unknown in Albania, this was, he said, an intriguing and enjoyable experience. He thanked the School warmly in an impromptu speech at the reception following the concert.
Former students and colleagues of Professor Wilby’s attended the concert to congratulate and thank him for his inspirational contribution to the musical life of University, as a teacher, performer and composer during his years in Leeds.
(Photo: l-r Eno Koço, David Thornton, Philip Wilby)
Vonnegut novel provides good read for radio
Simon Warner, a member of the teaching team that delivers the Popular and World Musics BA, appeared on BBC Radio 4’s A Good Read in March 2009 when he joined the programme to talk about a favourite novel.
Warner, who takes a keen interest in the relationship between popular music and the literary, selected Kurt Vonnegut’s fantastical war memoir Slaughterhouse Five, a blend of science fiction and an autobiographical account of the author’s experiences as an American POW in the fire-storms of Dresden.
He joined the Yorkshire-based poet and thriller writer Sophie Hannah and show host Sue McGregor to also discuss Kate Summerscale’s The Suspicions of Mr Whicher and Jill McGown’s Unlucky for Some.
Literature themes were also to the fore in February when Warner was guest speaker in Hull University’s Music Research Seminar series. In ‘Versions of Cody: Jack Kerouac, Tom Waits and the song “On the Road”’, he reflected on a song lyric penned by a Beat novelist and then adapted by one of the US’s foremost singer-songwriters.
Rough Trade deal makes Patrick’s day
Leeds band Just Handshakes (We’re British), who feature Clara Patrick, a Popular and World Musics BA second year, have been raising a good deal of excitement with their new single.
‘Paper Cranes’, a charmingly quirky slice of indie pop, has not only won the attention of Rough Trade, the key London independent store, but also earned a prestigious appearance on Steve Lamacq’s digital radio show on BBC 6Music.
The four-piece group, with Clara on lead vocals, formed at the end of 2007 on “a dingy Leeds industrial estate!”, she says, somewhat self-effacingly.
The band have a variety of musical influences, old and new, but share a love of The Smiths, Rilo Kiley, Shout Out Louds and Jens Lekman. Comparisons have been drawn with Young Marble Giants, Girls at Our Best, Florence and the Machine and Los Campesinos.
The new single, available from the band’s MySpace site and Leeds record shop Jumbo Records, follows their debut release, ‘Operation Daybreak’.
So, where next? “We’ve got a full and varied gig calendar,” says Clara, “including Live at Leeds, and the band are now looking to build on this and book festival dates and venture on a mini tour.”
As for ‘Paper Cranes’, Rough Trade have dubbed the piece “indie pop at its best” while Jumbo echo the praise: “From the beautifully packaged CD single to the music inside, you can tell a lot of care has been taken to produce this wonderful release.”
Music workshops prove big hit with students
During February and March 2009 a group of 17 undergraduate students were given the opportunity to participate in a four-week series of Creative Practice Workshops funded by the School of Music and the University Careers Service.
Led by Leeds music graduate Alex Wibrew, the sessions aimed to teach students techniques for working with music in a variety of community contexts. Students learnt about leading workshops, engaging participants and developing appropriate musical materials.
The workshops were “a resounding success” said the School’s Careers Officer, Karen Burland, explaining that students will now test out their new skills by working with Education Leeds to provide community music in a variety of educational settings throughout the city and surrounding area.
Dr Burland added: “Alex has done a fantastic job of inspiring our students to engage with music in a new and exciting way and the benefits of these workshops for the students and the wider community are immeasurable.” She said that student feedback had been “overwhelmingly positive” and the School of Music and the Careers Service were now looking to fund similar workshops in future years.
Young composer links with festival
Composer Lauren Redhead, a Leeds BA and
Masters graduate and now a PhD student in the
School of Music, has been selected to take part in
a project linked to the prestigious Huddersfield
Contemporary Music Festival.
She has been chosen to participate in the
Yorkshire Composers’ Professional Development
Programme, backed by the festival. As part of
this process she will work with the Amsterdambased
Nieuw Ensemble.
Says Lauren (pictured right)): “This is a new programme,
replacing what used to be known as the
Young Composers’ Competition, which invites
applications from composers at a number of
universities throughout the Yorkshire area.”
She explains: “I will be working with the Nieuw
Ensemble in Amsterdam on two occasions in
2009, and eventually writing a new work for the
ensemble.”
Formed in Holland in 1980, the Nieuw Ensemble
places a large emphasis on commissioning new
works. The results of this collaborative effort
will be premiered at Huddersfield Contemporary
Music Festival this coming November.
Open all hours! Music School shop unveiled
The School of Music has launched a new online shop for customers wanting to tap into our various products and services.
The web-store will enable the purchase of concert tickets and recordings and allow booking for conferences and other department events.
Among the items you can now buy are tickets for our concert series, the forthcoming Louis Spohr opera premiere Pietro von Abano and copies of the latest CD by the Leeds University Liturgical Choir.
Dan Merrick, the School's IT Manager, has been overseeing this new development. He explains: 'The shop is part of a wider university scheme to make the purchase of products more straightforward, around the clock and by credit card. We have significant programmes of performance and academic events and this system will help people to make bookings simply, quickly and when they want to.'
School input as volume explores the film score
A new volume focusing on music in film has just appeared and there is a strong contingent of School of Music contributors to report.
CineMusic? Constructing the Film Score, published by Cambridge Scholars Publishing, is co-edited by David Cooper, former Head of the School and currently Dean of the Faculty, Brunel's Christopher Fox and School of Music Research Assistant Ian Sapiro.
The volume features three Leeds-authored chapters by David Cooper and Ian Sapiro, Catherine Haworth and Connie Wallcraft. The book also showcases interviews with film composers Trevor Jones and Michael Nyman from the 2005 and 2006 Bradford International Film Festival Film & Music Conferences, which were co-hosted and organised by the School of Music.
New Scott volume identifies early seeds of popular music
The phrase “popular music revolution” may instantly bring to mind such twentieth-century musical movements as jazz and rock ’n’ roll. However, in his new book, Sounds of the Metropolis: The 19th-Century Popular Music Revolution in London, New York, Paris, and Vienna, the School of Music’s Prof Derek Scott argues that the first popular music revolution actually occurred in the nineteenth century.
Illustrating how a distinct group of popular styles first began to assert their independence and values, Prof Scott focuses on the cities of London, New York, Paris, and Vienna, centres in which the challenge to the classical tradition was strongest, and in which original and influential forms of popular music arose, from Viennese waltz and polka to music hall, vaudeville and cabaret.
He explains the popular music revolution as driven by social changes and the incorporation of music into a system of capitalist enterprise, which ultimately resulted in a polarisation between musical entertainment (or “commercial” music) and “serious” art. He contemplates the key genres and styles that precipitated musical change at that time, and that continued to impact popular music in the next century.
By the end of the nineteenth century, popular music could no longer be viewed as watered down or more easily assimilated art music; it had its own characteristic techniques, forms, and devices. As the author shows, “popular” refers here, for the first time, not only to the music’s reception, but also to the presence of these specific features of style. The shift in meaning of “popular” provided critics with tools to condemn music that bore the signs of the popular - which they regarded as fashionable and facile, rather than progressive and serious.
Autumn publication for Summer of Love
An international essay collection, inspired by the School of Music’s celebration of the 40th anniversary of the release of a seminal Beatles album, will be issued in September 2008.
In June 2007, the School staged “A Day in the Life”, a conference which commemorated the June 1967 appearance of Sgt Pepper’s Lonely Hearts Club Band.
The volume, Summer of Love: The Beatles, Art and Culture in the Sixties, is a collaboration between the department and the University of Klagenfurt in Austria.
Around the time the Beatles anniversary event was staged, Klagenfurt played host to a conference reflecting on the legendary Summer of Love and a joint publishing venture was created.
Simon Warner, Senior Teaching Fellow at Leeds and a popular music specialist, and Joerg Helbig the Director of the Institute of English and American Studies, Klagenfurt University, Austria, the two directors of the conferences, have co-edited the the new edition. It will appear in English through the German publishers WVT .
The essay collection – which features articles by five of the speakers at the Leeds conference – gathers work by academics from Europe and America who contemplate a wide range of topics linked to the happenings – cultural, social and artistic – in the wider Sixties.
At the core of the survey, however, the Beatles recording and the Summer of Love provide the principal fulcrum for the debates addressed. Says Warner: “The Sixties was an extraordinary decade, creatively and politically, but it seems that much of the essence of that time of hope was distilled into the summer months of 1967”.
Summer of Love: The Beatles, Art and Culture in the Sixties contemplates the musical soundtrack and key cinematic expression, the place of radical protest, poetry and youth culture, notions of sex and sexuality, love and permissiveness, the rise of a new musical theatre and the emergence of a new televisual language.
Dave's thirty years of service to brass kings
Dave Barraclough, School of Music technician, was the focus of a significant feature in a recent issue of British Bandsman, the leading publication of the brass band world.
The 4 October, 2008 edition included an interview on Dave's long-running playing career as cornet player with one of the leading ensembles in the field, Grimethorpe Colliery Band. His remarkable 30 years of service to the band was celebrated in the piece.
Dave comments: "I've had a fantastic time with the band, playing all over the world and enjoying every minute of it."
Mike's group sees Official Secrets Act broken
Official Secrets Act, a new London-based band featuring Mike Evans, a Popular and World Musics graduate of 2004, release their debut single, 'So Tomorrow' on the highly-rated One Little Indian label at the end of the year.
They also play the Cockpit in Leeds on December 6th and have plans to release their first album next spring.
Satisfaction rating over 90% in key Music student survey
Leeds Music students gave a big thumbs-up to the department with more than 90% declaring their satisfaction with the School and its courses in a major national survey.
Every year the National Student Survey invites students throughout the UK to rate their universities, their departments and the courses they do.
Aimed at final year students, the survey, organised independently by Ipsos MORI, offers crucial data to the universities themselves about their performance and standing but also to prospective candidates who may be planning to study at an institution.
Students throughout the country were asked to respond under a number of key headings: Teaching, Assessment and Feedback, Academic Support, Organisation and Management, Learning Resources, Personal Support and, finally, their Overall Satisfaction.
More than 84% of Leeds Music students answered the 2007-08 survey, a particularly pleasing aspect, according to Dr Stephen Muir, the School’s Director of Learning and Teaching.
“We are not only thankful to students who took the trouble to respond,” he says, “but the numbers who participated mean that the department, the university and those looking at the figures on the outside can trust the information we’ve gathered to a high degree.”
Teaching, Learning Resources and Assessment and Feedback attracted particularly strong approval from those who were polled.
But the department’s success is the survey is not the end of the story, as Dr Muir stresses. “Obviously, the School is not complacent. We need to sustain our efforts, of course, and even improve our rating. Some areas, Personal Development, for example, we need to do further work on.”
“We do believe though that a number of central University initiatives, such as the Leeds for Life website, will go a long way to address the matter of Personal Development as will a renewed partnership with the University Careers Centre and an exciting new Peer Mentoring scheme to help new students settle into University life,” he states.
Click here for further details of NSS results for the School
Leeds Graduates clinch conservatoire spots
A number of the School of Music’s 2008 graduates have gained places to study at British conservatoires next year.
They include Francesca Reich who will take a Performance Masters in saxophone at Trinity College of Music and Alistair Ollerenshaw who will pursue a Postgraduate Diploma in Vocal and Opera Studies at the Royal Northern College of Music, Manchester.
Laura Tebbutt has been admitted to the Postgraduate Music Theatre course at the Royal Academy of Music while Melissa Hopkins has been offered a place on the Postgraduate Diploma course in Vocal and Opera Studies at the RNCM.
Royal audience for School performers at Harewood
There was a regal air when a group of students from the School of Music, joined by department accompanist Dan Gordon, appeared at a Harewood House fund-raising event for the charity Hearing Dogs for the Deaf, which was attended by the Princess Royal on 17 July, 2008.
The musicians were invited to participate by Delma Tomlin, Director of the National Centre for Early Music (NCEM), via School Concerts Administrator Jillian Johnson, who is also involved with NCEM.
The performers taking part were Caroline Waddington (clarinets); HengChing Fang (viola); Vikki Hoodless (baroque 'cello); Melissa Hopkins (soprano); Sarah Kelly (soprano); Nicola Bain (contralto) and Daniel Gordon (harpsichord and chamber organ).
Says Dan Gordon: “We provided musical entertainment at a pre-dinner reception and performed for around an hour. We were particul;arly pleased when the Princess came over to speak with us during the reception.”
Delma Tomlin was warm in her praise of the musicians’ input. She commented: “It was both beautifully organised and a real treat to hear such talented young musicians at the House. The Chairman of the Hearing Dogs Association - Faith Clark – and the Princess Royal were absolutely delighted and particularly asked that you and the School be thanked for your support.”
Concert hall boost as Radio 3 returns
BBC Radio 3, which recorded a series of performances for broadcast in the School of Music’s Clothworkers’ Centenary Concert Hall during 2007-08, plans a return visit.
It has comissioned a second series of lunchtime recitals in CCCH for the season Oct 2009-May 2010 with specific dates still to be confirmed, Jillian Johnson, the School’s Concerts Administrator, has revealed.
Musical legend graces graduation celebrations
The School of Music held its annual post-graduation celebration on 8 July as a crowd of 300 gathered to toast the success of around a hundred newly-confirmed graduates – and they were joined by a very special visitor.
Dame Fanny Waterman, the legendary figure behind the Leeds International Pianoforte Competition, joined the party as David Mawson, a key organiser of the renowned piano event, was in attendance to receive his doctorate.
Students who have been studying for BAs in Music and in Popular and World Musics and also for the BMus degree took part in the official award ceremony in the Great Hall as graduands were officially confirmed as graduates of Leeds University.
Afterwards, graduates and guests headed for the Clothworkers’ Centenary Concert Hall Foyer, for a glass of bubbly, lunch and conversation with the many members of staff who joined the occasion.
Said Professor Clive Brown, Head of School: “We were delighted to welcome back our graduating students, pleased to share this special event with their families, and especially glad that Fanny Waterman joined a most successful celebration as David Mawson’s guest.”
The event also saw the launch of a new initiative to record memories of departing students. The School of Music Graduate Web-Book 2008 shares the experiences of many graduates and will be available online from August.
Student memories go online as annual Web-Book launches
The School of Music has launched its inaugural Web-Book, a yearbook which gathers student memories and experiences and puts them online.
The Graduate Web-Book 2008 is based on interviews filmed with newly-confirmed graduates at the celebration that followed the official award of degrees on 8 July.
Around 20 new graduates took part in this launch project and their comments will be available to both their friends and families and other website visitors interested in the experiences of students in the School.
The initiative was organised by Senior Teaching Fellow Simon Warner and Dan Merrick, the School’s IT Manager.
Dan Merrick commented: “The idea grew out of the notion of a traditional yearbook where graduates talk about their time in university and their plans for the future. We wanted to give the project a more contemporary feel and filmed clips presented online seemed the ideal option.”
But if the exercise provides a unique personal memento, it also creates a revealing record of how students have found their time in the City, in the University and the School.
Simon Warner added: “We have more than a hundred graduates in the department each year and they represent not only successful products of the system but also a wealth of experience and information.”
“The people who know best how university life works and how a department functions are those who have studied here. The Web-Book will allow those individuals to share their experiences with fellow students, their parents and others who want to find about more about Music at Leeds.”
The Web-Book, available online from August, will aim to expand its scope and coverage in 2009. “A pleasing number of students took part this time and we are sure this idea will grow still further next year,” Warner explained.
Rock band clinch major festival slots after four gigs
Leeds four-piece FF’ers, who feature two School of Music students, have been invited to appear at two major UK festivals – Leeds and Reading – after playing a mere four gigs.
The group, who include guitarist/vocalist Billy Malcolm-Watts recent graduate in Popular and World Musics and bassist Bob Lindop a current member of the PWM course, will appear on the prestigious BBC Introducing stage at both festivals in late August.
The band also have a warm-up concert at the New Roscoe in Leeds on August 20th prior to their appearance on the festival bills.
Read about the band’s BBC invitation here.
New Milton recording features Emeritus Professor
Professor Richard Rastall, Emeritus Professor in the School, has edited the music for a new CD recording A Candle to the Glorious Sun: Sacred songs by John Milton and Martin Peerson. It was released in April 2008 by Regent Records.
The CD represents a ground-breaking recording of music by John Milton. The performances, by the chapel choir of Selwyn College, Cambridge, also contain sacred music by Cambridgeshire composer Martin Peerson.
John Milton senior (1562-1647) was a successful scrivener and composer: his son John, the famous poet, was born in the family home in Bread Street, near St Paul’s Cathedral, London, in 1608. Martin Peerson was born probably at March, Cambridgeshire, in the early 1570s. He rose to become Almoner and Master of the Choristers at St Paul’s from 1625 until his death in 1651.
The two composers must have known each other well. They appeared together in Sir William Leighton’s The Teares or Lamentacions of a Sorrowfull Soule (1614), in Thomas Ravenscroft’s The Whole Booke of Psalmes (1621), and in Thomas Myriell’s manuscript collection Tristitiae Remedium (“The Remedy for Sorrow” – i.e. music – c. 1616).
A Candle to the Glorious Sun includes Milton’s magnificent six-voiced settings of texts from the Lamentations of Jeremiah, a reconstruction of his anthem “If ye love me, keep my commandments”, and the madrigal-motet “When David heard that Absalom was slain” probably written on the death of Henry Prince of Wales in 1612. The CD presents all of Milton’s sacred music, and several pieces by Peerson, on record for the first time.
Selwyn College Chapel Choir, founded in the late nineteenth century, has been a mixed choir since women were first admitted to the College in 1976. Its 28 members sing three services per week during term. The choir has sung concerts and services all over the world, has broadcast services for BBC Radio, and has sung live on television; it has recorded for Priory, Herald and other labels.
Choir director Sarah MacDonald, MA FRCO, came from her native Canada in 1992 to be Organ Scholar at Robinson College, Cambridge. She was appointed Director of Music in Chapel at Selwyn College in 1999, the first woman to hold such a post in an Oxbridge college. A well-known recitalist and conductor, Sarah has broadcast live on BBC Radio and has made over 25 recordings.
Professor Rastall, a graduate of Christ’s College, Cambridge, where John Milton sent his poet son in 1625, is currently editing the complete works of both Martin Peerson and John Milton senior, for the first time in a modern performing edition. His reconstruction of Peerson’sLatin motets is already recorded on the Hyperion label by the Ex Cathedra Consort.
The new CD is available now for trade and promotion, from Regent Records, PO Box 528, Wolverhampton WV3 9YW; tel. 01902 424377, fax 01902 717661. Retail distribution is by RSK Entertainment, Unit 1, 4‑5 Home Farm, Welford, Newbury, Berks RG20 8HR; tel. 01488 608900.
Folk Orchestra are festival victors
A trio of 1997 Popular Music Studies graduates played the celebrated End of the Road Festival in Dorset in September when Timothy Victor's Folk Orchestra closed the Saturday night celebrations in fine style. The nine-piece which features Victor, Rupert Hunt and Matt Hutchinson, also joined by Music graduate Gill Sandell, are in the process of recording a new album.
Meanwhile, Jenny Macro, a Popular Music Studies graduate of 1996, was in action playing with one-time Ash guitarist now solo star Charlotte Hatherley at the same event.
AHRC grant award for 19th-centure performance study
An AHRC research grant for £484,324 has been awarded to Professor Clive Brown (PI), Dr David Milsom and Professor Robin Stowell (University of Cardiff) for a project entitled '19th- and Early 20th-century Editions of String Music: Bibliographical Problems, Editorial Content and Implications for Performance Practice.'
The grant is for a four-year period, beginning in September 2008. It will complement the work of the Leeds University Centre for Historically Informed Performance (LUCHIP) and, when completed, will greatly enhance knowledge of these important sources for 19th-century performance.
Rivalries under the microscope
A pair of 18th Century musical histories were considered by the School of Music’s Prof Peter Holman when Burney & Hawkins: A Tale of Two Histories wasbroadcast by BBC Radio 3 at the end of May 2008.
Prof Holman’s exploration examined the contributions of two very different men who competed for the musical hearts and minds of the English nation in London in the years after 1776.
When Charles Burney published the first volume of his History of Music, the work he believed would open the way into respectable society, another such history had just appeared on the market. Written by Sir John Hawkins, a well-established man of letters, it offered serious competition to Burney's work, and could not be allowed to succeed.
The broadcast piece revealed a tale of personal rivalry, character assassination and ruthless social climbing, bringing to life the characters of Burney and Hawkins, what they thought about music of their time and earlier, and how Burney sabotaged his rival's work.
It featured Simon Callow as Burney, John Fortune as Hawkins and contributions from Alvaro Ribeiro, editor of Burney's letters, social historians Rosemary Sweet and William Weber, and the writer Kate Chisholm.
Singers win TV praises
A significant contingent of choral singers from the School had a small screen date when they appeared in a special edition of the long-running BBC programme
Songs of Praise.
The edition, broadcast on 6 April, 2008 and presented by Pam Rhodes, focused on health and well-being and members of the department made a substantial contribution to the proceedings.
Members of Leeds University Liturgical Choir, LUUMS Chamber Choir and School Project Choir joined local singers to perform a sequence of familiar
hymns.
Filmed at St Wilfrid’s Church in Harrogate, the show featured interviews with various individuals
concerned with health issues with a particular emphasis on matters of the spirit. Steve Muir of LULC explained: “We spent a couple of days travelling back and forth to Harrogate to record and then do visuals, quite time-consuming but an interesting experience for those who took part.”
Edition producer Joanna Malton was highly complimentary of the Leeds contribution, commenting: “We could not have done the recordings without you. Everybody on the team has said so. It was vital that you were all there!”
Rushton guests at Belgian Mozart event
Emeritus Professor Julian Rushton was an invited guest speaker at the international seminar on Mozart's Don Giovanni at the Orpheus Instituut (advanced studies & research in music), Ghent, Belgium, in March 2008.
He read a paper entitled 'By their arias shall ye know them: Don Giovanni and the Nature of Opera'.
Student organises Adorno event in London
Leeds Music research student Roddy Hawkins convened a study day in July 2008 at the Institute of Musical Research in London with the support of the Royal Musical Association.
Entitled ‘What does musical material mean today: developments after Adorno’, the event attracted composers and musicologists from Europe and the US, with keynote addresses from Adorno scholar Max Paddison and Wieland Hoban, a German-based composer and translator of Adorno’s texts.
Roddy Hawkins said he was delighted with the day. ‘The range of perspectives offered, both through the presentations and the ensuing discussion, suggested something of the difficulty that scholars engaging with music after Adorno are presented with,’ he said.
‘There is obviously a huge range of music that exists today which, in theory at least, requires a consideration of what constitutes “the musical material”. In some ways, the study day helped to clarify things for me but in other ways, it only served to highlight the complexity of the arguments involved,’ he added.
Halle role for Music graduate
Leeds Music graduate Emma Scotchmer has been appointed to an internship at the Halle Education Department based in Manchester.
Emma, who attained her BMus degree in 2008, will take on the six month post, starting in September 2008, and she will be involved in several of the Halle's educational outreach projects with local schools.