02/19/2010

schott aktuell - the journal 2/2010 online

Cityscapes in Music Contents: p 3: Editorial · Contents pp 4-7: World Premieres: Fazil Say: Istanbul Symphony in Dortmund (D) · Victor Kissine: Post-Scriptum in San Francisco, CA · Alvin Singleton: Almost a Boogie in Brookline, MA · Peteris ...

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12/02/2009

Double success at British Composer Awards

Schott Music is today celebrating the success of John Casken and Alexander Goehr who both won British Composer Awards yesterday evening.  The awards, run by the British Academy of Songwriters, Composer and Authors (BASCA) sets out to recognise the very best new music in the UK with wide ...

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10/28/2009

British Composer Awards 2009

BASCA, the British Academy of Songwriters, Composers and Authors recently announced the shortlist for the British Composer Awards which included nominations for Schott composers, Alexander Goehr, John Casken and Kenneth Hesketh. Goehr's masterful fantasy for string quartet and percussion, Since ...

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10/27/2009

Let's celebrate! Music for New Year Concerts

Thema: Let's celebrate! Music for New Year Concerts Contents: p. 3: Editorial · Contents pp. 4-5: World Premieres; Alexander Goehr: Broken Psalms in Cambridge (UK)· Jörg Widmann: Teufel Amor  in Wien (AU)· Detlev Müller-Siemens: Kommos ...

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08/19/2009

David Drew - In Memoriam

The distinguished musicologist David Drew, has died aged 78.   Alexander Goehr has written a moving tribute to his old friend in The Guardian, which we reproduce here. "No job description, whether musicologist, critic, cultural historian, publisher or editor quite fits David Drew, ...

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07/17/2009

BBC Proms 2009

There is a great deal to enjoy in the contemporary music being presented across this year's Summer Festivals. Among many other key events, we would like to recommend the legendary BBC Proms where our composers are particularly strongly featured with works by Casken, Goehr, Holliger, Hookawa, Martland, ...

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03/30/2009

NMC Songbook

The record label NMC celebrates its 20th anniversary this year and to mark the occasion 100, new songs from British composers have been commissioned.  The result of the ambitious project is the NMC songbook which proudly aims to highlight the artistic diversity within the UK’s ...

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10/30/2008

Alexander Goehr - World Premiere

Alexander Goehr’s new work, Overture , which was written for the Countess of Munster Trust to celebrate its 50th anniversary, will receive its world premiere, directed by John Wallace, on Sunday 2nd November at a private concert in Glyndebourne.  The new work, which is scored for two ...

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08/11/2008

"Starry Sky" - Piano Concerto for the Olympic Games 2008

The opening ceremony of the Olympic Games in Beijing was one of the most closely guarded secrets of this mega sports event. What exactly was on the programme was unknown to almost everybody before the ceremony began. Almost 4 billion viewers throughout the world watched the ceremony during which the ...

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08/06/2008

Lang Lang performs Xiaogang Ye's New Piano Concerto at the Olympic Games Opening Ceremony

Celebrated Chinese pianist Lang Lang will perform the world premiere of a new piano concerto by his countryman Xiaogang Ye at the opening ceremony of the Olympic Games in Beijing. The title of the work translates literally as Music of Our Time , though an official translation will be announced during ...

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