Tag / Jonathan Harvey
Sep
22
2014
0This Saturday, 27th September 2014, Jonathan Harvey’s ‘Body Mandala’ will have its Polish debut when it is performed by the Warsaw Philharmonic Orchestra. The concert forms part of the Warsaw Autumn International Festival of Contemporary Music and begins at 7:30pm. It will be conducted by Jacek Kaspszyk and feature:
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Jul
14
2014
0Le Festival de Radio France presents ‘Space Music’ this Thursday 17th July in Montpellier, France. Featuring a range of composers of electronic and classical music, Jonathan Harvey’s piece ‘Mortuos Plango, Vivos Voco’ will be performed along with music by four other composers. The performers will include Raquel...
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Jun
15
2014
0Jonathan Harvey’s ‘Come, Holy Ghost’ will be performed as part of an evening concert on Friday 20th June 2014 at Christ Church, Spitalfields. The Choir of Clare College, Cambridge are putting on ‘God is gone up: Spitalfields Summer Festival’ conducted by Graham Ross.
The evening will include pieces inspired...
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May
30
2014
0Next Wednesday, 4th June 2014, the Chapel Choir and Founder’s Choir at Royal Holloway, University of London celebrate Jonathan Harvey’s life in a concert dedicated to his work entitled 'In Memoriam Jonathan Harvey'.
The concert takes place from 1:15pm – 1:45pm in the Chapel. It is part of Royal Holloway’s ‘Play!...
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May
20
2014
0St John’s Smith Square is hosting a solo recital on Saturday 31st May 2014 which will include Jonathan’s piece ‘Vers’. The early evening concert, starting at 5:00pm, will be performed by pianist Rolf Hind and is part of a weekend series called Occupy the Pianos which takes place from Friday 30th May – Sunday 1st June...
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Jul
22
2013
0There will be a memorial service held on the 19th of October in memory of Jonathan Harvey in the Chapel at St. John’s College Cambridge at 12 noon. Harvey was a music scholar and later an Honorary Fellow of the college and maintained a close relationship with it throughout his life. One of the last pieces he wrote,...
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Jun
11
2013
0Last Thursday was the UK premier of the full stage version of Wagner Dream, put on by the Welsh National Opera. It was a stunning production and provoked some wonderful reviews, which are summed up on Faber's website HERE . If you haven't seen it, you can still catch the final performance in Birmingham tomorrow.
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May
16
2013
02013 is Wagner’s bicentenary year and Wagner operas are everywhere you look, but Welsh National Opera have chosen to mark the occasion in a rather different way with the first fully-staged UK performance of Jonathan Harvey’s Wagner Dream. In Harvey’s opera the dying Wagner reflects on his own unfinished Buddhist opera,...
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May
14
2013
0Saturday the 18th of May will see a full day dedicated to the life work of Jonathan Harvey put on by The Conservatory, the Casa Della Musica and the Casa Del Suono of Parma as part of the project IL SUONO OCCULTO: multi-dimensional interactions between instrumental and electroacoustic composition, meetings between the contemporary...
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May
3
2013
0Jonathan Harvey's musical homage to the French composer Olivier Messiaen, Tombeau De Messiaen, will be performed next week (May 8th) at Amaryllis Fleming Concert Hall as part of the Royal College of Music's From The Soundhouse series of concerts. Also performed will be String Quartet No.4 and Ritual Melodies in a tribute...
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