Christine Riding was the curator of Tate Britain’s outstanding 2008 exhibition on British Orientalist painting, The Lure of the East. Here, prior to the performance of Delius’ music for the Baghdad romance Hassan, she discusses Orientalism in art within a wide cultural context.
Ends 19:30pm.
Talk preceeds M26 Hassan
In this performance, a narrative précis of Flecker’s play will accompany Delius’ score. More
Just what does it take in the human engineering of the body to sing or play a musical instrument? What kinds of stresses and strains are caused by the 100s and 1000s of hours of practice? And if there are injuries or physical breakdowns, what are the solutions?
Ear, Nose and Throat
Hearing loss, voice injuries and how to breathe properly. What do healthy and unhealthy larynxes look like in action?
M22 The Opera Group Presents Babur in London pre-concert talk.
FREE to M22 ticket holders
Just what does it take in the human engineering of the body to sing or play a musical instrument? What kinds of stresses and strains are caused by the 100s and 1000s of hours of practice? And if there are injuries or physical breakdowns, what are the solutions?
Heads, Shoulders, Knees and…
A look at the musculo-skeletal aspects of the musical body, to include personal testimony from performers who have been to hell and back. What went wrong, and how did they fix it?
Part of our Musical Athletes Series.
Suitable for ages 6+
with James Mayhew illustrator as Sinbad the Sailor
Orchestra of the Music Makers
Chan Tze Law conductor
Join best-selling children’s author & illustrator James Mayhew (creator of Katie and Ella Bella) for this unique and spectacular concert, featuring the superb Singaporean Orchestra of the Music Makers, in a complete performance of Rimsky-Korsakov’s “Scheherazade”.
James will retell the extraordinary tales from the Arabian Nights that inspired the composer. Then, as the orchestra plays, he will create illustrations live on stage for all to see.
Rachel Bowen, director of the Cheltenham and Tewkesbury Youth Choirs, gives the little ones a musical workout of action songs and pre-Olympic warm-ups. Suitable for ages 3+.
Michael Berkeley, the BBC Philharmonic and conductor Yan Pascal Tortelier collaborated in 2002 on a fine BBC film that investigates the origins of Debussy’s masterpiece, and its background of marital infidelity and public scandal.
A selection of composers from M09 BBC Singers concert talk with Christopher Cook.
Prior to M08 Gloucestershire Youth Orchestra concert
Ken Russell’s film traces the last five years of Delius’ life through the eyes of a young composer, Eric Fenby, who helped the blind, paralysed composer set down the unfinished scores he could hear in his head.
Ends approx 18:45pm
"It is completed": From the Old Creation to the New
A talk by the Revd Robin Griffith-Jones
