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| Women in Music and the 13TH London New Wind Festival (Including WiM AGM) |
| Date |
03 November 2010 |
| Description | Silent Films by Women Film-Makers including Tricia McCrae; What Do We See, Helen Petts; Island, Anne Telford; Reflections, Flora Skivington; A New Way to Fly, Patricia Videl Delgado; Videoscope, Patricia Walsh ; Beyond the Trail, Patti-Gaal Holmes ; Correspondance for Lovers. And improvised Music by Ensemble Trip-Tik Catherine Pluygers (oboes), Adrian Northover (Saxes), Adam Bohman (Found Objects), Alison Blunt (Violin) Guest Artist, Caroline Kraable (Sax, Voice) Guest Artist. Guest Speaker: Debbie Golt from Outerglobe and Resonance Radio
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| Location | October Gallery, 24 Old Gloucester Street, Bloomsbury, London WC1N 3AL |
| Contact details | Enquiries London New Wind Festival, 119 Woolstone Rd, Forest Hill, London SE23 2TQ |
| Email | catherinepluygers@hotmail.com |
| Web | www.londonnewwindfestival.co.uk |
| Time | 6 - 7.30pm Women in Music AGM. Show 7.30 - 8.45pm, followed by Reception |
| Price | £8 (£5) |
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| juice vocal ensemble / Errollyn Wallen, Anna Meredith, Mica Levi, Roxanna Panufnik and E.Laine |
| Date |
10 August 2010 to 10 September 2010 |
| Description | Laid Bare: 10 Love Songs - World Premiere
Laid Bare: Love Songs is a set of punchy a cappella songs commissioned by juice in collaboration with Arts Council England, the PRS Foundation and the Vale of Glamorgan Festival. Touching on the irreverent, soulful and unsettling, the songs are composed by an enticingly eclectic collection of artists - Anna Meredith, avant-soul improviser E Laine, Roxanna Panufnik, Errollyn Wallen, Mica Levi from artpop band Micachu and the Shapes, percussionist Damien Harron, Dai Fujikura, Phillip Neil Martin, award-winning folk artist Jim Moray and Gavin Bryars. Songs are inspired by everything from the Boswell Sisters and En Vogue, to lulling settings of contemporary poetry and traditional folk.
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| Location | Vale of Glamorgan Festival of Music - Acapela, Pentyrch, CF15 9QD |
| Contact details | Call the St Donats Arts Centre on 01446 799100, the BBC National Orchestra of Wales Audience Line on 03700 10 10 51 |
| Email | juicevocalensemble@googlemail.com |
| Web | http://valeofglamorganfestival.org.uk/concerts/cold-hands-warm-heart-juice/ |
| Time | 7.30pm with pre-concert talk at 6.15pm |
| Price | £12 (£10 concessions) |
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| Weir/Musgrave - choral works |
| Date |
04 September 2010 |
| Description | The fifth Proms Saturday Matinee concert, given by the BBC Singers, the Arditti Quartet and Endymion, features Weir's All the Ends of the Earth and the world premiere of Musgrave's Ithaca, a BBC commission. This concert also includes works by Taverner, Harvey and Ferneyhough. |
| Location | Cadogan Hall |
| Web | http://www.bbc.co.uk/proms |
| Time | 3.00pm |
| Price | £10/12 |
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| Dorothy Howell - Lamia |
| Date |
05 September 2010 |
| Description | Prom 68 features Howell's symphonic poem Lamia, along with other orchestral works premiered by or associated with the founder of the Proms, Henry Wood. The concert also includes works by Bliss, Bax, Rachmaninov, Sibelius, Parry and Tchaikovsky. |
| Location | Royal Albert Hall, London |
| Web | http://www.bbc.co.uk/proms |
| Time | 8.00pm |
| Price | £7-£35 |
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| Dorothy Forster - Mifanwy |
| Date |
05 September 2010 |
| Description | Prom 67 is a recreation of the Last Night of Henry Wood's 1910 Proms season. It includes a number of short popular classics, one of which is the song Mifanwy by the then very popular composer Dorothy Forster. |
| Location | Royal Albert Hall, London |
| Web | http://www.bbc.co.uk/proms |
| Time | 2.30pm |
| Price | Free |
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| Tansy Davies - Wild Card |
| Date |
08 September 2010 |
| Description | Prom 72. The BBC Symphony Orchestra conducted by Jiří Bělohlávek give the world premiere of Davies' new work Wild Card, a journey through the Tarot pack, along with orchestral works by Wagner and Bruckner. The Prom is preceded at 5.15pm by a Composer Portrait in which Davies will discuss her new work, a BBC commission, and introduce some of her chamber music. The Composer Portrait event will take place at the Royal College of Music. |
| Location | Royal Albert Hall, London |
| Web | http://www.bbc.co.uk/proms |
| Time | 7.00pm |
| Price | £7-£35 |
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| Dafina Zeqiri - Dream |
| Date |
23 September 2010 |
| Description | The third of "Four Late Evenings at the British Museum" with violinist Peter Sheppard Skærved. Dafina Zequiri is one of eight composers featured in a programme entitled "Trade and Travel", (part of "History of the World in 100 Objects")
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| Location | Great Court, The British Museum, Great Russell Street, London, WC1B 3DG, |
| Web | http://www.peter-sheppard-skaerved.com/projects/british-museum-photos-by-richard-bram/ |
| Time | Check times |
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| Jean Hasse - Collections Considered |
| Date |
14 October 2010 |
| Description | The last of "Four Late Evenings at the British Museum" with violinist Peter Sheppard Skærved . Jean Hasse is one of six composers featured in a programme entitled "Objects and Today's World", (part of "History of the World in 100 Objects")
"The tally sticks in the Enlightenment gallery are a powerful symbol of our times, dominated by invoices and receipts. Alongside these, composers respond to the original translation programme, the Rosetta stone, to the idea of a modern collection of objects, and to the astounding modern notion of our place in the universe." |
| Location | Great Court, The British Museum, Great Russell Street, London, WC1B 3DG, |
| Web | http://www.peter-sheppard-skaerved.com/projects/british-museum-photos-by-richard-bram/ |
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| Coggeshall Camerata |
| Date |
16 October 2010 |
| Description | Coggeshall Camerata perform works by Henry Purcell including Dido & Aeneas, Rejoice in the Lord Alway & O Sing unto the Lord accompanied by the Ad Lib String Quartet & conducted by Janette Ruocco. |
| Location | St Peter ad Vincula, Coggeshall CO6 1UD |
| Contact details | Beverley on 07786 125 703 |
| Email | coggeshallcamerata@janette-ruocco.co.uk |
| Web | http://www.janette-ruocco.co.uk/--Coggeshall-Camerata.html |
| Time | 19:30 |
| Price | £10, £8 conc |
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| Dorothy Howell - Piano Concerto |
| Date |
11 November 2010 |
| Description | The first professional performance in over 70 odd years with the Orion Symphony Orchestra as part of a 'Remembrance & Revival' concert at London's Cadagon Hall. The sololist will be the outstanding Bulgarian - British concert pianist Valentina Seferinova. |
| Location | Cadagon Hall, London |
| Contact details | http://www.cadoganhall.com/contact.php |
| Web | http://www.cadoganhall.com/showpage.php?pid=1346 |
| Time | 19-30hrs |
| Price | £30, £22, £15 |
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| IAWM Congress 2011 |
| Date |
15 September 2011 to 18 September 2011 |
| Description | The International Alliance for Women in Music (IAWM) and Northern Arizona University School of Music, in cooperation with the Flagstaff Symphony Orchestra are pleased to announce the IAWM Congress 2011 to be held September 15-18 in Flagstaff, AZ. The theme of our congress is "In Beauty We Walk: Changing Women and the New Musical Landscape." The four-day congress will be held on the campus of Northern Arizona University and will feature established and upcoming women composers as well as students, musicologists, music theorists and ethnomusicologists, educators, performers and conductors who will contribute their knowledge and expertise in concerts, workshops, papers and panel discussions.
The title of this conference illuminates the rich history of the region and is meant to represent cultures and histories throughout many nations. The story of Navajo creation figure Changing Woman contains images and metaphors with which many women today can identify. The overarching principle of walking in beauty is easily experienced in one of the most strikingly spectacular landscapes of the United States, including one of the seven natural wonders of the world, The Grand Canyon.
Information about how, when and where to submit papers and compositions will be available by August 1, 2010.
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| Location | Flagstaff, AZ |
| Contact details | Judith Cloud, Professor of Music, Northern Arizona University |
| Email | judith.cloud@nau.edu |
| Web | http://www.iawm.org/events.htm |
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| smart womens recording club workshops |
| Date |
04 September 2010 |
| Description | Studio based workshops for singers, musicians and electronic artists. Ongoing free taster session and full day workshops visit site for more more details.
Theses workshops are based at TIgersonic Studio and led by experienced female engineer, producer Felix Macintosh. |
| Location | London N7 |
| Email | info@smartwomensrecordingclubworkshops.co.uk |
| Web | http://www.smartwomensrecordingclubworkshops.co.uk |
| Time | saturday 4th September |
| Price | £65 |
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| Million Women Rise Manchester |
| Date |
18 September 2010 |
| Description | We are looking for women who would like to share their culture either by doing a cultural performance, having a stall to show pictures and traditions, wearing traditional clothes or any other ideas that you might have. |
| Location | Manchester |
| Contact details | 07872015114 |
| Email | mwrmanchester@gmail.com |
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| The Brilliant & The Dark |
| Date |
23 September 2010 |
| Description | The Brilliant & The Dark is an opera for women's voices that looks at history through the eyes of the crusaders' wives, plague stricken women, witch hunters and war workers. It was first performed by 1000 women volunteers in 1969.
Join this special live event with artists Eileen Simpson and Ben White (Open Music Archive) as they present their re-interpretation of this musical adventure in collaboration with their female choir Gaggle
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| Location | The Women's Library, Old Castle Street, London E1 7NT |
| Email | moreinfo@thewomenslibrary.ac.uk |
| Web | http://www.thewomenslibrary.ac.uk |
| Time | 7pm - 8.30pm |
| Price | £6, £4 concessions |
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