BBC Prom Picks
I was going to pick one prom a week that looked particularly exciting, but the programme for the next seven days is so brilliant that it is hard to know where to start, so I’ve gone for three. Follow the links – all can be heard live on the internet or radio and some are on the television too.
Sunday 14th July, 7.30
A programme of ballet music ending with Stravinsky’s revolutionary Rite of Spring played on instruments that would have been used at the time. Listen for the Bassoon straining in its top register at the beginning! The first half is four ballet excerpts from the Baroque to the late nineteenth century
http://www.bbc.co.uk/proms/whats-on/2013/july-14/14556
Tuesday 16th July, 7.00
An old but brilliant warhorse – Rachmaninov’s second piano concerto alongside a new piece by David Matthew’s and the energetic ‘Inextinguishable’ fourth symphony by Nielsen (an early C20 Danish composer of whom I am particularly fond)
http://www.bbc.co.uk/proms/whats-on/2013/july-16/14560
Friday 19th July, 10.00
This is an excerpt from Stockhausen’s opera Wednesday from the cycle Licht. The ‘World Parliament’ performed by Birmingham’s Ex Cathedra was the absolute highlight of a performance of this work in Birmingham last summer. It is totally bonkers but fascinating and there are some gorgeous moment. The rest of the opera (not being done tonight) also involves helicopters and camels …
A2 Summer Homework
Instrumental
Complete the Schumann Summer Homework including answering the essay question on the second page.
Composition
Find three pieces that you can listen to with score (use IMSLP) and complete the Worksheet attached.
Both pieces of work are due in on the first lesson back in September.
Last week of term
What is happening this week (some changes to normal timetabled lessons).
Monday
TASTER day for year 10 students 9.55-12.00. Any help still gratefully received …
G group – anthology ( 1.15)
Tuesday
F group – anthology (10:00)
G group – final composition lesson with sharing of work over cake (11:30)
Wednesday
CHOIR at 10:00 in the lecture theatre
F group – anthology for both lessons (13.50-14:40)
Thursday
F group – final composition lesson with sharing of work over cake (8:45)
Lunchtime concert at 1:00 in the Hall (sing through of choir pieces plus some student items – room for a couple more if anyone is
offering. Do bring your friends if you wish …)
Concert trips 2013-14
We have managed to get tickets for the following concerts for the bargain price of £4.50. All the programmes are really exciting with a mixture of familiar favourites, epic masterpieces and less well known little gems. You can download the forms from the Explorations in Music Moodle or collect them from the music office. I will keep some tickets back for September so that new Year 12s can take advantage of the offer, so you will need to get in quick.
| Thursday 19th Sept. | Andris Nelsons conductor Kristine Opolais soprano Wagner: Tannhäuser Overture Wagner: Wesendonck Lieder Stravinsky: The Rite of Spring |
| Thursday 3rd Oct. | Nikolaj Znaider conductor Ingrid Fliter piano Mendelssohn: Ruy Blas Overture Chopin: Piano Concerto No. 2 Mahler: Symphony No. 1 |
| Thursday 5th December | Andris Nelsons conductor Isabelle Faust violin Wagner: Siegfried Idyll Britten: Violin Concerto Brahms: Symphony No. 3 |
| Wed. 26th Feb. | Karl-Heinz Steffens conductor Renaud Capuçon violin Mozart: Gran Partita (13 Winds) Glazunov: Violin Concerto Stravinsky: Symphony in Three Movements |
| Thursday 8th May | Andrés Orozco-Estrada conductor Simone Lamsma violin Ravel: Alborada del gracioso Shostakovich: Violin Concerto No. 1 Rachmaninov: Symphonic Dances |