Tag Archives: At the event

At the event: Hugh Wood memorial concert

Posted on 7 January 2022 by sw508

It falls to me to compose the first post for 2022 and so I must begin by wishing all our devoted readers well for the coming year and to thank you for continuing to read our articles – we much … Continue reading →

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At the event: Haydn Op.20 no.1 Functional Analysis at the Guildhall School of Music and Drama

Posted on 24 March 2016 by sw508

On 11 March, I was delighted to be invited to sit in on Levon Chilingirian’s Professor’s Platform at the Guildhall School of Music and Drama. Its focus was to be a performance of Hans Keller’s Functional Analysis of Haydn’s String … Continue reading →

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At the event: Musical time-travel

Posted on 10 April 2015 by mj263

On Sunday 22nd March I was in Market Bosworth, watching King Richard III’s cortege on its way to his reburial at Leicester Cathedral. It was a wonderful day memorable for many reasons – the skill and dedication of the volunteer … Continue reading →

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At the event: Hans Keller at the 1954 Salzburg Festival

Posted on 3 April 2015 by sw508

When we last explored this most extraordinary of musicians, I was, if you remember, sorting the unsorted materials in his Archive here at the University Library. Well, now I know what’s in the boxes (mostly) and have moved on to … Continue reading →

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At the event: UL Friends talk by Margaret Faultless

Posted on 20 February 2015 by sw508

It’s all in the notes. Or is it?…. On Wednesday February 11th Margaret Faultless gave an absorbing and illuminating lecture-recital to the Friends of the University Library on performance practice at the turn of the 17th and 18th centuries taking … Continue reading →

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At the event: Charles Ives study day @ the Guildhall School of Music

Posted on 5 December 2014 by sw508

“Understanding Charles Ives’s music is no easy task. Its diversity is unrivaled, ranging from band marches to avant-garde experiments and from Victorian church anthems to some of the most complex orchestral music ever written.” So begins Peter Burkholder’s 1986 seminal … Continue reading →

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