HAS IT FLOWN AWAY? on BBC Radio 3
Has it flown away?, a choral setting of words by John Keats and Fujiwara Shunzei commissioned by the St Louis Chamber Chorus in 2005, receives its first broadcast in the UK on Sunday March 14th 2010. A performance given by the BBC Singers under the direction of Nicholas Cleobury will be heard as part of a feature marking the 10th anniversary of the John Armitage Memorial Trust on BBC Radio 3’s ‘The Choir’ - also available via the BBC iPlayer until March 21st.
FEATHER-SMALL AND STILL:
a new song for mezzo-soprano and piano
Tower Poetry, organisers of the UK’s most valuable prize for young poets, have commissioned a new setting of Sophie Stephenson-Wright’s Villanelle, one of 2009’s winning entries. It will be premiered by Heather Uren and Guy Newbury on March 24th, at the Blue Boar Lecture Theatre, Christ Church, Oxford, as part of the 2010 Sunday Times Literary Festival.
Raising expectations:
a forthcoming conference paper on recent works
Jonathan Pitkin will give a paper entitled ‘Raising expectations: patterns, predictability and putting off the inevitable in recent compositions’ at the 2010 ‘Music and Numbers’ conference at Canterbury Christ Church University, presented in association with the Institute for Musical Research and the Society for Music Analysis. The conference takes place on the 14th and 15th May; click on the link below to read an abstract.