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The digital ‘turn’ in music education (editorial)
No full textThe global COVID-19 pandemic has disrupted music education across the world, resulting in radical changes to the field of practice, accelerating a ‘turn’ toward online digital musical experiences. This digital ‘turn’ is likely to influence the future of music education in a variety of complex and inter-connected ways. In this special issue, we explore the implications of such a ‘turn’ for music educators and their students / participants, and highlight some of the ways in which music researchers and educators have responded to the crisis. We hope these narratives will help illuminate some of the ways in which music education might recover its equilibrium, as well as make a contribution more generally to the complex business of human recovery in a post-COVID world
BBC Radio 3 record review: building a library: Tchaikovsky's Fifth Symphony
No full textIn a programme broadcast on 3 April 2021, William Mival discusses recordings of Tchaikovsky's Fifth Symphony, from historic versions by Mravinsky and Karajan to recent performances by Dudamel, Gergiev and Nelsons. This discussion is also available (UK only) on the Radio 3 Record Review Podcast, see https://www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/p09crsp5
The effects of COVID-19 lockdown 1.0 on performing arts professionals
No full textRead the full report: Spiro N, Perkins R, Kaye S, Tymoszuk U, Mason-Bertrand A, Cossette I, Glasser S, and Williamon A (2020), The effects of COVID-19 Lockdown 1.0 on working patterns, income, and wellbeing among performing arts professionals in the United Kingdom (April-June 2020), Frontiers in Psychology, 11 (594086), pp. 1-17. https://www.frontiersin.org/articles/10.3389/fpsyg.2020.594086/full, see also https://researchonline.rcm.ac.uk/id/eprint/1765/
Along dark paths (Per opaca viarum)
Get PDFFor wind orchestra and six solo celli. Along Dark Paths (Per Opaca Viarum) was commissioned by the Koninklijk Harmonieorkest Vooruit Harelbeke, and is dedicated to them and Mr. Erik Desimpelaere in friendship. Grateful thanks to co-commissioners Landesblasorchester Baden-Württemberg (conductor Bjorn Bus). Skyline Communications, Nationale Loterij - Loterie Nationale, and the city of Harelbeke are acknowledged with gratitude for their support in the commissioning of this work
Introduction: making music matter in historic houses
No full textThe London cartoonist Tom Gauld's “Soundtrack to Spring” illustrates a domestic scene in today's New York City. The concept of the historic house is capacious and embraces a diverse range of former dwellings. A much smaller number of historic houses have been used to display musical instrument collections. House museums provide a compelling context for instruments and repertoires that were primarily devised for or consumed in domestic settings, furnishing the opportunity to see, and sometimes hear, historical music in acoustic and visual surroundings that are something like historical conditions. Music exists as sound in time, as performance and listening, and as a process in the ears, minds and memories of people. The material traces of musical activity in historic houses vary widely, and as Eric de Visscher and Mimi S. Waitzman observe, questions of provenance and completeness play a role in assessing their significance and potential for interpretation today
An inconvenient Black history of British musical theatre 1900-1950, lecture concert, Wigmore Hall, 21 September 2021
No full textThis concert celebrated the heritage and importance of Black music and performance to Wigmore Hall and the wider British musical theatre industries. At the invitation of John Gilhooly, Sean Mayes and Sarah K. Whitfield also launched their new book An Inconvenient Black History of British Musical Theatre 1900-1950 (Methuen Drama). Through innovative hybrid concert and discussion form, Mayes and Whitfield discussed the hidden history the book uncovers, the urgency of uncovering the work of Black creative practitioners, and what it means for the future.
West End performer Jonathan Andrew Hume (Come from Away, The Lion King) and emerging soprano Esme Sears joined Mayes in performances of songs and repertoire that re-centre Black musical experience. The concert was directed by Shanté Campbell
Between two worlds: discovering the music of Robert Kahn (1865-1951)
No full textAlmost 70 years ago, in May 1951, the late Romantic composer Robert Kahn died in Biddenden, Kent. He was one of about 400 mostly Jewish musicians who found refuge in Britain from Nazi persecution. Since 2012, our ‘Singing a Song in a Foreign Land’ project at the Royal College of Music has been researching their legacies, discovering some wonderful music along the way. *** This article is available open access at the 'Official URL' link given below. **
Key performance dimensions of the 'well-tempered musician’: a framework for artist management
No full textArtist management or mentoring is generally recognized as a fundamental challenge and as a contributing element in an artist’s success. This article takes the position that artist management should go well beyond the confines of standard business practice focused on traditional management, marketing, accounting and finance, extending into multiple dimensions of artist identity. That is, although the managerial tendency might be to focus only on
matters related to what are identified as career skills, broadening the managerial vision by implementing our holistic perspective enables artists and managers to gain a better understanding of
strengths and weaknesses. In this article, the requirements of artist management are broadened and deepened. We identify
seven dimensions, or touch points, of artist identity as captured in the Performance Profiling Framework (Williamon et al. 2017). The rationale and definitions for the seven skill types investigated in our survey and the focus on reporting data from five currently active professional musicians are summarized in the third section of the article. The analysis illustrates individual perspectives
on the skills described in the Performance Profiling Framework, as well as, for context, general descriptive statistics for our
sample of 85 professionals
Mapping historic house music collections in the United Kingdom
No full textThis chapter explores how historic house collections have been represented in music bibliographies to date. The significance of music to any given property might be more or less obvious. A tendency to focus on standout and eye-catching collections, or even just individual, unique, items within them, has precluded a bigger picture based in a wider socio-historical frame to fully reveal items' importance. Resources for understanding English Heritage's musical objects were less extensive than those available for the National Trust: there is no comparable database for their estimated 500,000 objects. Information about instruments was mostly sourced from National Trust Collections, which offers the ability to search by property for “Musical instruments, devices, and recordings”. The wide variety of objects in these collections is of interest to scholars of music-making in historic houses, but many catalogues include more concise and general descriptions of physical objects, and therefore lack the intricacies of detail that may contribute to scholarly study
