Blogs about: Harrison Birtwistle

Featured Blog

De Anima Animalis: Harrison Birtwistle’s The Minotaur and Anaïs Nin’s The Seduction of the Minotaur

operatica wrote 1 month ago: The Minotaur as performed at the Royal Opera House, London, in January 2013. During my last trip to … more →

Tags: opera 2, Literature, Anais Nin, Literature and Opera, Minotaur, Contemporary Opera, erotic literature, Royal Opera House, John Tomlinson

(canon hate)

J C W wrote 1 month ago: canon hate, list (maybe grasp) : literature beckett joyce heaney celan ponge hate. o'hara carson rya … more →

Tags: Others, real-void, Alain Badiou, Anne Carson, Art, Brian Ferneyhough, canon, Crux, elliott carter

(abstract urold renew)

J C W wrote 1 month ago: again at last abstract urold renew … more →

Tags: real-void, Ezra Pound, Alain Badiou, abstract, new, At last, Again?, old

Tempestuous Thursday I: "Poem as Mask", by Muriel Rukeyser.

Person from Porlock wrote 2 months ago: As you might understand by now, I like the poetry of Muriel Rukeyser, and to no small degree. We … more →

Tags: Rafe's Favorite Poems, Pasatiempos, 20th century contexts, Muriel Rukeyser, Poem as Mask, Sylvia Plath, The Masks of Orpheus

Harrison Birtwistle, August 1987.

richmond2001 wrote 11 months ago: The composer Harrison Birtwiste lived in Twickenham in the 1960s.   … more →

Tags: Visual and Performing Arts, richmond upon thames, Composer

You like potato, I like...2 comments

leapingtracks wrote 11 months ago: How is it best to rate music?  We can say whether we like or dislike something.  But does that make … more →

Tags: Country Music, Music, folk, country, Beautiful, Alison Krauss, Gilbert and Sullivan, W. S. Gilbert, dolly parton

Bow Down Diaries: Benjamin

spitalfieldsmusic wrote 11 months ago: We’ve been speaking to the cast of The Opera Group’s Bow Down about their experiences of … more →

Tags: Festival, contemporary music, Village Underground, Summer Festival 2012, The Opera Group, Bow Down, Music Theatre, Brighton Festival, Norfolk & Norwich Festival

Bow Down Diaries: Mana

spitalfieldsmusic wrote 11 months ago: In the second instalment of our blog post about the upcoming performances of Bow Down in the Summer … more →

Tags: Festival, contemporary music, Village Underground, Summer Festival 2012, Music Theatre, Brighton Festival, Norfolk & Norwich Festival, Tony Harrison, japanese noh theatre

Bow Down Diaries: Rehana1 comment

spitalfieldsmusic wrote 11 months ago: Following two very successful performances at Brighton and Norfolk & Norwich Festivals, the cast … more →

Tags: Festival, Bow Down, Brighton Festival, contemporary music, japanese noh theatre, Medieval, Norfolk & Norwich Festival, rehana browne, Summer Festival 2012

Harrison Birtwistle @ the Queen Elizabeth Hall

Simon wrote 12 months ago: 24 May 2012 To the Queen Elizabeth Hall for an evening with (Sir) Harrison Birtwistle, each piece pr … more →

Tags: contemporary classical music, Classical Music, Concert, contemporary classical music

Listen to our Classical music blog for May Highlights1 comment

southbankcentreblogger wrote 1 year ago: In this month’s podcast members of the Orchestra of the Age of Enlightenment discuss working w … more →

Tags: Resident Orchestras, classical, Southbank Centre, Royal Festival Hall, queen elizabeth hall, Classical, Classical Music, london sinfonietta, orchestra of the age of enlightenment

Listen to our Classical music blog for May Highlights1 comment

elsieburke wrote 1 year ago: In this month’s podcast members of the Orchestra of the Age of Enlightenment discuss working w … more →

Tags: London Philharmonic Orchestra, london sinfonietta, Orchestra of the Age of Enlightenment, Philharmonia Orchestra, queen elizabeth hall, Resident Orchestras, Royal Festival Hall, Classical, Classical Music

Royal Philharmonic Society Music Awards 2012

Robin Gosnall wrote 1 year ago: Presented in association with BBC Radio 3, this year’s RPS Music Awards shortlists, for outstanding … more →

Tags: Music, bbc radio 3, Composers, conductors, Pianists, Royal Philharmonic Society, Violinists, john gilhooly, Donald Runnicles

Booking now open for Summer Festival 2012!

spitalfieldsmusic wrote 1 year ago: So it’s still cold and miserable outside, and too dark in the evenings, but summer is hotting up Spi … more →

Tags: Festival, Spitalfields Music, spitalfields music, the sixteen, la nuova musica, Exaudi, christ church spitalfields, shoreditch church, london sinfonietta

Opportunity: The Opera Group Needs Performers 16-23yrs

participatelondon wrote 1 year ago: A slightly different opportunity here – this one is for young performers looking to gain exper … more →

Tags: Opportunities, Music, theatre, Dance, Literature, Courses, Young-Adult, dance 2, spoken word

Birtwistle: The Minotaur2 comments

listeningatlunch wrote 1 year ago: It’s always nice when I can watch and listen to a piece of music that is performed by the forc … more →

Tags: Opera, John Tomlinson

Search terms for 7 days ending 2011-12-03 11 comments

R.A.D. Stainforth wrote 1 year ago: You have a computer. You have the internet. You type this into a search engine … nigella lawso … more →

Tags: Life, Food & Drink, Music, Women, Culture, Blog Stats, Celebrities, manchester, Nigella Lawson

Harrison Birtwistle, 'Chronometer'

Benjamin Talbott wrote 1 year ago: It is difficult to describe what one feels when listening to this unusual piece. It isn’t by a … more →

Tags: Music Reviews, MUSIC POSTS, Benjamin Talbott, Benjamin, Talbott, federermatthew, Review, electroacoustic, ACOUSMATIC

Christine Rice sings Birtwistle

jamesprimosch wrote 1 year ago: Christine Rice, soloist in yesterday’s Harbison premiere with the Met Orchestra, sings an exce … more →

Tags: John Harbison, Christine Rice


Related Tags
All →

Follow this tag via RSS