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Mixing Music's13th Season features composer Liz Johnson
The featured composer for this season is Liz Johnson, a Birmingham-based
composer, who will introduce each concert and encourage discussion between
the musicians, visiting composers and audience members. Liz's own music is prominently
featured in the season, and Mixing Music is commissioning two new works
from her, which will be given their premières by Noszferatu on 19 November
and by the Fitzwilliam Quartet on 10 December. Both commissions are funded by
the Regional Arts Lottery Programme.
All concerts are on Wednesdays. The concert on 31 March 2004 will be in
Spadesbourne Hall; all other concerts will be in the
Guesten Hall.
| Programme: | |
| Liz Johnson | Draco for solo percussion |
| (world première of Bromsgrove Concerts commission) | |
| Finn Peters | Improvisation |
| Laurence Crane | Four Miniatures |
| Andrew Glover | Tsuname 2 (world première) |
| arr. Gerardo Gandini | Nostalgias |
| Jonathan Powell | Drempel |
| Joanna Lee | Three Men and a Lady |
| Lee Chong-Man | Silence (UK première) |
| Jan Podlipny | Softly on the Edge |
| Joe Cutler | Urban Myths |
| Andrew Poppy | More Matter Less |
| After premièring the works by Andrew Poppy, Jonathan Powell and Laurence Crane at the Cheltenham Festival, Noszferatu bring them to Bromsgrove as part of an exciting and eclectic programme, which includes the first of this season’s commissions from Liz Johnson. | |
| Sponsored by Thomas Horton & Sons | |
| Programme: | |
| Liz Johnson | String Quartet no. 1 'Images of Trees' |
| Mat Atkinson | Buried |
| Jeremy Thurlow | Ancient Stone at Twilight |
| Alfred Schnittke | Canon in Memoriam Igor Stravinsky |
| Liz Johnson | String Quartet no. 3 'Intricate Web' |
| (world première of Bromsgrove Concerts commission) | |
| Matthew King | Quartet 2001 |
| The Fitzwilliam Quartet were delighted to be asked to give the first performance of Liz Johnson’s new quartet. However, they were so taken with her first quartet, when they played it in Birmingham last year, that they also wanted to perform that — hence the programme for their concert in Bromsgrove, which includes both. | |
| Programme: | |
| Andrew Toovey | Self-portrait as a Tiger! |
| Morgan Hayes | Snapshots |
| Sadie Harrison | Three Expositions |
| Laurence Crane | See Our Lake |
| Various (see below) | First performance of 'IXION' Concerto (for violin and viola) |
| Matthew Rizzuto | Everybody's Leaving |
| Luke Stoneham | Rictus |
| Morton Feldman | Durations 1 |
| Geoffrey Hannan | Centrifugal Bumblepuppy |
| Liz Johnson | O Vos |
| Andrew Hamilton | Frank O'Hara on the Phone Piece |
| As part of IXION’s ongoing development into new areas of musical thought, artistic director and composer Andrew Toovey has collected together a group of composers to write the first in a projected series of 'IXION' concertos, this one for duo violin and viola together with the IXION Ensemble. The composers taking part with either a movement or a cadenza are: Michael Finnissy, Geoffrey Hannan, Andrew Hamilton, Morgan Hayes, Stephen Montague, Luke Stoneham and Andrew Toovey. To complement this first concerto performance, a selection from these composers’ works and works by Crane, Feldman, Harrison, Johnson and Rizzuto will also be performed. | |
| Formed in 1987, IXION have established themselves as one of the leading contemporary ensembles in the country. They appear regularly at the Brighton Festival and on BBC Radio 3, and have released several critically acclaimed CDs featuring the music of artistic director Andrew Toovey and Michael Finnissy. ‘Burningly committed, rawly emotional, expressively unconstrained, intellectually underpinned’ Financial Times | |
| Programme: | |
| John Casken | Sunrising |
| Liz Johnson | Laetare Cantuaria |
| Timothy Salter | Scintilla for solo cello |
| Howard Skempton | Two Poems of Edward Thomas: Two Pewits / Sowing |
| Paul Patterson | Salvum fac populum tuum domine |
| Anthony Payne | Betwixt Heaven and Charing Cross |
| Elisabeth Lutyens | Prelude and Capriccio for solo cello |
| Elisabeth Lutyens | Verses of Love |
| Timothy Salter | Lacrimae Rerum for cello, organ and chorus |
| The Ionian Singers’ repertoire extends from the 16th century to the present; but contemporary music forms a large part of their programmes, and they have received many awards for their activities in this field. Choral music has also been noticeable by its absence from Mixing Music — until this concert. Please note: this concert will not be held in the Guesten Hall; it will be in Spadesbourne Hall. | |
| Programme to include: | |
| Pete Wyer | Flap |
| Louis Andriessen | Triplum |
| Philip Cashian | Black Venus |
| Töru Takemitsu | Equinox |
| Elliott Carter | Shard |
| Programme: | |
| Liz Johnson | Night-Music |
| Elliott Carter | Esprit Rude/Esprit Doux |
| Laurence Crane | Piano pieces |
| Paolo Boggio | Germogli di Vetro 3 |
| Please note the start time | |
Four Minute Starters
We are planning to include a short piece by a student composer in some of the
concerts.....more
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