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Scottish conductor and composer (1847-1935)
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2024-03-22 12:00:00
Organ Reborn! Norwich Cathedral Organ Festival: A new music festival for Norwich
Norwich Cathedral Organ (Photo: Bill Smith/Norwich Cathedral)From an epic concert featuring three Cathedral Choirs to the ‘Battle of the Organs’, audiences will be able to enjoy a whole week of musical festivities at Norwich Cathedral in July marking the return of the Cathedral’s historic pipe organ as part of the first Norwich Cathedral Organ Festival. Norwich Cathedral Organists (Photo: Bill Smith/Norwich Cathedral)In fact, this special summer festival (generously underwritten by the Statham Society which supports the musical life of Norwich Cathedral) has been carefully planned to coincide with the first anniversary of the organ’s return following its ambitious rebuild by Harrison & Harrison. Therefore, Organ Reborn! Norwich Cathedral Organ Festival, runs from Saturday 6th to Sunday 14th July featuring three headline concerts, six organ recitals, a couple of talks and so much more! ‘We are really excited to be celebrating the return of Norwich Cathedral’s historic pipe organ,’ said Ashley Grote, […]
2024-02-29 07:43:00
One of the oldest-established festivals in the UK, the Norfolk & Norwich comes round in the merry month of May.
[…] year’s Speak Easy, a performance poetry tent pitched in Festival Gardens while Spill Festival director, Robin Deacon, will perform his own work Through the Round Window.Exploring issues surrounding the environment, A Greener World features the world première of three short plays by Steve Waters entitled Phoenix, Dodo and Butterfly while the installation, On Our Doorsteps, explores the relationships between urban communities and the green spaces in their neighbourhood. The work has been created by Zakiya Mackenzie and Tiitu Takalo in collaboration with local people and Norfolk Wildlife Trust. Over at west Norfolk in King’s Lynn, Art for the Environment, showing at the GroundWork Gallery (17 Purfleet Street, King's Lynn, PE30 1ER) features some of the most exciting artists to come from University of the Arts London, drawing one’s attention to our fragile planet. In the City of Literature Weekend (in association with the National Centre for Writing) questions of communication and representation […]
2024-01-16 06:00:00
Today’s piece of freely available music is by British ambient musician Daniel W J Mackenzie, aka (via some partial name reversing) Ekca Liena. November in Flight was originally released over a decade-and-a-half ago, on a bonus CD included in Mackenzie’s 2011 album Slow Music For Rapid Eye Movement. It’s a… The post appeared first on 5:4. 5:4 is on Patreon! Please consider supporting the blog by becoming a Patron from just $2 a month: https://www.patreon.com/5against4
2023-11-23 07:48:00
New appointments at Royal Liverpool Philharmonic & Royal Academy of Music
Nicholas ChalmersThe Royal Liverpool Philharmonic Orchestra has appointed a former Liverpool Philharmonic Youth Company musician as Principal Second Trumpet, whilst the Royal Academy of Music has appointed a new Fernside Chair of Choral Conducting, leading the Academy’s postgraduate Choral Conducting programme.The Royal Liverpool Philharmonic Orchestra has announced the appointment of Hannah Mackenzie as Principal Second Trumpet. Her first performance in the role will be Thursday 30 November 2023. Hannah Mackenzie was raised on the Wirral and joined the Liverpool Philharmonic Youth Company when she was 16. The Youth Company is the largest community of young musicians in the North West created to develop young musical talent. During her time in Youth Company, Hannah won the Youth Orchestra Concerto Competition and performed as a soloist.Hannah MackenzieShe graduated from the Royal Northern College of Music in 2016, where she studied for her Master’s Degree. She is also a passionate educator, teaching in several […]
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