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English composer and conductor
- saxophone, harp, flute, clarinet
- film score
- United Kingdom
- bandleader, composer, conductor, flautist, jazz musician, saxophonist, film score composer
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2024-03-27
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2024-03-26 16:45:17
At this London gig, the guitarist and his band covered songs by Bob Dylan, the Grateful Dead and Jimmy Webb
2024-03-26 08:10:00
A radical new look: full line-up for Nevill Holt's 2024 festival
[…] Ffrench will be performing music from his latest album, Michael Morpurgo will be reading passages from his novel War Horse with musical accompaniment from Ben Murray, Anton Lesser will read excerpts from Hilary Mantel's Wolf Hall with music by Debbie Wiseman played by Katherine Rockhill. Cécile McLorin Salvant and pianist Dan Tepfer will be performing French chanson and there is more French chanson from Jessica Walker and Joseph AtkinsJazz performers include Jalen Ngonda, and Ronnie Scott’s Jazz Orchestra, music director Pete Long, with Liane Carroll. Throughout the festival there will be a display of sculpture by Anthony Caro across the Nevill Holt estate alongside an outdoor sculpture collection including work by Antony Gormley, Rachel Whiteread, Allen Jones, Conrad Shawcross, Marc Quinn and Sean Henry. There will be a screening of Vinny Rawding and Lee Cogswell's BOTY, and there will be conversations with sculptor Andy Goldsworthy, photographer David Yarrow, artist Chila Kumari […]
2024-03-23 09:49:00
Writing Italian-influenced music in the depths of Northamptonshire: organist William Whitehead on the music of English Baroque composer George Jeffreys
[…] covered, but when it comes to publication there are occasional copyright issues, and in some cases, there are multiple works filling a particular gap.There are 118 gaps in all, filled by an eclectic mix of contemporary composers. William regards the collection as an historical marker representing the beginning of the 21st century, featuring all the styles composers are using, along with some viewed retrospectively. There are a couple of Bach imitators, and William cites John Scott Whiteley's contribution as being very close to Bach, and a couple of good Brahms imitators, along with some who are sui generis, and then there are works influenced by Cage, Serialism, Jazz, Reggae and much more, each individual composer's free response to the task.Lost Majesty: Sacred Songs and Anthems by George Jeffreys - Solomon's Knot - PROSPERO Never miss out on future posts by following usThe blog is free, but I'd be delighted if you were to show your appreciation […]
2024-03-22 12:00:00
Organ Reborn! Norwich Cathedral Organ Festival: A new music festival for Norwich
[…] and fulfilling life not just as an organist but also as an improviser and composer as well. Tickets £5. And being a celebrated exponent of the organ music of the 20th-century French tradition, Mr Briggs will also perform a programme of French organ works on the same day at 8pm. Tickets £12. Seating unreserved. And a further event in the Weston Room (Friday, 12 July, 3pm, tickets £5) offers a talk on Organ Reborn! by Andrew Scott, managing director of Harrison & Harrison Organs, who undertook the 2023 rebuild of the organ and Canon Nicholas Thistlewaite, who acted as the independent advisor to the Dean and Chapter. They’ll give a ‘behind-the-scenes’ talk and presentation about this ambitious project which has ensured that the music of Norwich Cathedral’s organ will be enjoyed by future generations. Tickets £6. Norwich Cathedral on air! Choral Evensong (Wednesday, 10 July, 3pm) will be broadcast ‘live’ on BBC […]
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