New Music 20x12

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Purcell Room
The End of Literacy?
Friday 13 July 2012 Friday 13 July 2012

At the opening of this rich weekend of new music, this debate centres on what to cherish from tradition and what truly represents a brave new world - and how we best cultivate intelligent broad-...

Modern Classical | Music | Talks | Talks & Debate | New Music 20x12
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We live in times of musical plurality, with fast-changing questions of what students know, what audiences want and how best artists articulate their ideas.
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Purcell Room
Conor Mitchell: Our Day
Friday 13 July 2012 Friday 13 July 2012

Alongside their New Music 20x12 commission, Northern Ireland Opera presents four other new opera works by Irish and UK composers and librettists.

Modern Classical | Music | Opera | New Music 20x12
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Our Day is a new opera set against a backdrop of events in Northern Ireland in 1972.
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Weston Pavilion
Third Ear Symposium 2012
Friday 13 July 2012 Friday 13 July 2012

An international line-up of music promoters, programmers, producers, curators, funders, artists and composers join together for a day of talks and discussions to consider models for commissioning...

Modern Classical | Music | Talks | Talks & Debate | New Music 20x12
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An international line-up of music promoters, programmers, producers, curators, funders, artists and composers join together for a day of talks and discussions to consider models for commissioning, including finance, risk, rights, joint ventures and commissioning as a creative process
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The Front Room at QEH
New Composers New Music
Friday 13 July 2012 Friday 13 July 2012

Over the last four years the Sound and Music Summer School has given over 150 young composers and creative musicians the opportunity to learn and develop.

Modern Classics | Jazz & Blues | Music | Electronic | Friday Lunch | New Music 20x12
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Free
Over the last four years the Sound and Music Summer School has given over 150 young composers and creative musicians the opportunity to learn and develop.
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The Front Room at QEH
Composing New Music: Teachers
Friday 13 July 2012 Friday 13 July 2012

If you are a teacher working in music and composition, come and join this session, including join-in practical examples, which uses past Ofsted findings to improve your techniques.

Workshops | Music | Talks | New Music 20x12
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If you are a teacher working in music and composition, come and join this session, including join-in practical examples, which uses past Ofsted findings to improve your techniques.
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Purcell Room
A Painter of Figures in Rooms with EXAUDI
Saturday 14 July 2012 Saturday 14 July 2012

Aaron Cassidy's new work extends his research into performative physicality, choreography and tablature notation, exploring extended vocal techniques developed through a separation of the...

Modern Classical | Visual Arts | Vocal | Music | Visual Arts | New Music 20x12
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Aaron Cassidy's new work extends his research into performative physicality, choreography and tablature notation, exploring extended vocal techniques developed through a separation of the physiological components of singing.
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Purcell Room
Sally Beamish: Spinal Chords
Saturday 14 July 2012 Saturday 14 July 2012

Sally Beamish's new work for the Orchestra of the Age of Enlightenment, 'Spinal Chords', premiered at the Queen Elizabeth Hall in February 2012, and now you can watch a film screening of this...

Orchestral | Residents | Music | New Music 20x12
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Sally Beamish's new work for the Orchestra of the Age of Enlightenment sets a text by Melanie Reid who broke her neck and back in a horse-riding accident in April 2010 which left her paralysed.
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The Front Room at QEH
One-to-One Composer Surgery
Saturday 14 July 2012 Sunday 15 July 2012

Got a piece of music that you have written or are trying to, that you'd like to have looked over by a composer-doctor?

Modern Classical | Workshops | Music | Talks | Talks & Debate | New Music 20x12
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Got a piece of music that you have written or are trying to, that you'd like to have looked over by a composer-doctor?
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Level 5 Function Room
Composing Workshop 1: Composing and folk music
Saturday 14 July 2012 Saturday 14 July 2012

The first of four lively workshops aimed at aspiring and emerging composers and musicians, exploring in more depth some of the themes of the New Music 20x12 commissions.

Folk | Workshops | Music | Folk & World | Talks | Talks & Debate | New Music 20x12
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The first of four lively workshops aimed at aspiring and emerging composers and musicians, exploring in more depth some of the themes of the New Music 20x12 commissions.
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Hayward Lecture Theatre
Joe Cutler: Ping!
Saturday 14 July 2012 Saturday 14 July 2012

Ping!

Modern Classical | Music | New Music 20x12
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Ping! is a collaboration between the Coull String Quartet, composer Joe Cutler, artist Tom Dale, Fusion Table Tennis Club, English Table Tennis Association, Ping London, Warwick Arts Centre and Birmingham Conservatoire.
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Southbank Centre Square
Howard Skempton: Five Rings Triples
Saturday 14 July 2012 Saturday 14 July 2012

Bells proclaim moments of public gathering, of celebration and of important news.

Free | Modern Classical | Chamber | Music | New Music 20x12
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Free
Bells proclaim moments of public gathering, of celebration and of important news. Five Rings Triples is a new work by Howard Skempton for eight church bells to mark the Olympic year.
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Queen Elizabeth Hall
Gavin Higgins: What Wild Ecstacy
Saturday 14 July 2012 Saturday 14 July 2012

To celebrate the centenary of Nijinsky's iconic ballet L'Après-midi d'un faune, Artistic Director Mark Baldwin presents his brand new modern-day take, What Wild Ecstasy.

Dance & Performance | New Music 20x12
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To celebrate the centenary of Nijinsky's iconic ballet L'Après-midi d'un faune, Artistic Director Mark Baldwin presents his brand new modern-day take, What Wild Ecstasy
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Level 5 Function Room
Composing Workshop 2: Composing for voice
Saturday 14 July 2012 Saturday 14 July 2012

The second of four lively workshops aimed at aspiring and emerging composers and musicians, exploring in more depth some of the themes of the New Music 20x12 commissions.

Modern Classical | Vocal | Chamber | Talks & Debate | New Music 20x12
25632
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The second of four lively workshops aimed at aspiring and emerging composers and musicians, exploring in more depth some of the themes of the New Music 20x12 commissions.
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Hayward Lecture Theatre
Liz Liew and Andy Leung: XX/XY
Saturday 14 July 2012 Saturday 14 July 2012

Prepare to be taken into an exciting musical battle inspired by the competition of life - from the battle of the sexes to the competitive spirit of the Olympic and Paralympics - victories and...

China | Modern Classical | Music | New Music 20x12
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Prepare to be taken into an exciting musical battle inspired by the competition of life - from the battle of the sexes to the competitive spirit of the Olympic and Paralympics - victories and defeats, human versus machine, beginning and the end, the UK and the World - all in the space of 12 minutes.
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The Front Room at QEH
Jason Yarde: Skip dash flow
Saturday 14 July 2012 Saturday 14 July 2012

Jazz composer and hip-hop impressario Jason Yarde has created an exciting, dynamic composition that takes audiences and players alike on a cultural voyage, following the Olympics from its previous...

Jazz | Jazz & Blues | Music | New Music 20x12
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Free
Jazz composer and hip-hop impressario Jason Yarde has created an exciting, dynamic composition that takes audiences and players alike on a cultural voyage, following the Olympics from its previous venue in Beijing, through London in 2012 and on to the next port of call, Rio de Janeiro.
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Queen Elizabeth Hall
Imagined Village and An Tobar: Folk double bill
Saturday 14 July 2012 Saturday 14 July 2012

TAT-1 by Aidan O'Rourke starts with the loose theme of bringing the world closer together.

Folk | Music | Folk & World | New Music 20x12
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TAT-1 from Aidan O'Rourke to help celebrate the 2012 Olympics.
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Southbank Centre Square
David Bruce: Fire!
Saturday 14 July 2012 Saturday 14 July 2012

A spirited meditation on humankind's enduring fascination with fire from acclaimed composer David Bruce and renowned pyrotechnic artists The World Famous, performed in Southbank Centre Square.

Brass | Dance & Performance | Free | Music | Opera | New Music 20x12 | Voicelab
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Free
A spirited meditation on humankind's enduring fascination with fire from acclaimed composer David Bruce and renowned pyrotechnic artists The World Famous.
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The Clore Ballroom
Anna Meredith: HandsFree
Sunday 15 July 2012 Sunday 15 July 2012

Anna Meredith's HandsFree showcases the National Youth Orchestra as you've never seen them before - performing with no instruments at all.

Beatboxing | Orchestral | Music | New Music 20x12
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Free
Anna Meredith's HandsFree will enable the NYO, in groups of 16 to 160, to share their thrilling musicianship and creative inventiveness without their instruments, through clapping and beatboxing.
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Purcell Room
Mark-Anthony Turnage: Beyond This
Sunday 15 July 2012 Sunday 15 July 2012

One of Britain's most successful composers, Mark-Anthony Turnage has achieved international stature and is commissioned and performed throughout the world.

Modern Classical | Music | Talks | Talks & Debate | New Music 20x12
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One of Britain's most successful composers, Mark-Anthony Turnage has achieved international stature and is commissioned and performed throughout the world.
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Purcell Room
Emily Howard: Zatopek!
Sunday 15 July 2012 Sunday 15 July 2012

Zátopek! is a 12-minute opera with music by Emily Howard and libretto by Selma Dimitrijevic inspired by the life and times of legendary Czech long distance runner Emil Zátopek.

Modern Classical | Vocal | Choral | Music | Opera | New Music 20x12
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Zátopek! is a 12-minute opera with music by Emily Howard and libretto by Selma Dimitrijevic inspired by the life and times of legendary Czech long distance runner Emil Zátopek.
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