Ilan is a British film composer who has established himself as an exciting young talent in the world of film music. Born in London into a musical family, Ilan grew up playing violin and later took up playing guitar in bands. He studied Music and English literature at Leeds University, during which time he also worked with film composer Ed Shearmur learning first-hand the technique of film composition. After graduating, he went on to work with other film composers such as Michael Kamen and Hans Zimmer. At this time Ilan began scoring his own projects, and his talent for creating cinematic music on a limited budget soon gained him recognition within the film industry.
Warner fronts birthday tribute to jazz poet
Radio 4 presents a 75th birthday tribute to musical versifier Michael Horovitz in the spring and a department member leads the homage One of the grand old names of British poetry will be celebrated on April 4th, 4:30pm-5:00pm, when BBC Radio 4 broadcasts a birthday tribute to Michael Horovitz.
The Poetry Olympian: Michael Horovitz at 75 will bring together a host of names from the worlds of poetry and music commemorating a career that stretches half a century and more.
The programme, to be presented by the School of Music’s Simon Warner, reflects on Horovitz’s decades of activity from his launch of the poetry and art journal New Departures in 1959, through his highly productive Sixties when he regularly toured with poets and jazz musicians.
In 1965, he was one of the British poets who took part in the celebrated International Poetry Incarnation at the Albert Hall when readers from the US – Allen Ginsberg, Gregory Corso and Lawrence Ferlinghetti – joined home-grown and European writers on stage and 7,000 audience members.
For the last 30 years, Horovitz has masterminded the Poetry Olympics, a rolling celebration of music and verse on the live stage, a project that has seen names from Paul McCartney and Ray Davies to Roger McGough, Carol Ann Duffy and John Hegley participate.
Remarkably, Horovitz will even see one of his poems adapted for the next album by Gorillaz, with band leader Damon Albarn both a fan of the poet’s work and a long-time supporter of his strategy to bring verse to new, young and culturally diverse audiences.
Simon Warner, whose research concerns the relationship between literature and music and particularly the Beat movement of the 1950s, comments: ‘Michael Horovitz has been a fervent campaigner for jazz poetry and live poetry over a life-time. We hope this show shares something of his energy and inspiration, something of the unique vision he has followed with commendable commitment for so long.’
Date Published: 20 February 2010
Keywords: Michael Horovitz, Radio 4, Simon Warner, jazz, Beat poetry
Keywords: Michael Horovitz, Radio 4, Simon Warner, jazz, Beat poetry
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