This Composers Workshop hosts two visitors from Queen’s University Belfast:
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11Feb
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12Feb
How can the act of singing, that most common yet most mysterious of musical emanations, be communicated in words? That is surely the issue facing every author of a singing manual.
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18Feb
Nigel Osborne has been described as “a political composer in a unique sense: critical of all establishments, but benign and humane”.
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19Feb
During the 2022 French Presidential election campaign, the extreme-right candidate Éric Zemmour released a video in which he expounded on the supposed threat posed to the Republic by “le grand remplacement,” underscored by the second movement of Beethoven’s Seventh Symphony.
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25Feb
From tingling spines triggered by tonal patterns to tearful eyes provoked by arrangements of colours and shapes, humans can have remarkable experiences. But what makes individuals susceptible to such aesthetic responses? Here, I present evidence that genetic effects are partly responsible.
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25Feb
Howard Skempton’s music is renowned for the distinctive clarity of its musical language.
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26Feb
This talk focuses on a little-known choral conductor, Elizaveta Nilovna Shniukova, who was born into a peasant family in the village of Ilenskoe, Irbitskii uezd, Permskaia guberniia in 1892, received musical training in Perm’ and Ekaterinburg at the “courses of singing literacy” run by the regional society of sobriety in the 1910s, and went on t
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04Mar
Being a performing musician is rewarding but can also be challenging. Many musicians face various obstacles in their journeys including low confidence, performance anxiety, and performance-related pain, to name a few.
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04Mar
The renowned Fidelio Trio returns for its second visit this year, to workshop pieces composed for them by current students.
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05Mar
This research is situated at the intersection of Ottoman studies, sound reproduction technologies, and the history of the (colonial) sciences. I examine the collections of the Phonogrammarchiv in Vienna and the Berlin Phonogramm-Archiv, with a specific emphasis on the earliest recordings made during ethnographic fieldwork in the Ottoman Empire.
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