COMPOSER MICHAEL FINNISSY’S CAREER has been a lifelong rejection of the divisions drawn up in and around the world of classical music. Growing up in London in the 1960s, Finnissy did not pursue academic training in composition until the age of eighteen, and was influenced as much by Hockney, Rauschenberg, Ginsberg, Genet, and Godard as by the wide range of music that he absorbed from public libraries, from family and friends, and from the radio. In the years since, his large body of compositions has referenced folk, jazz, spirituals, and the European avant-garde, his approach to music at once
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Carillon composition contest results
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Leuven Bell and Carillon Society Campanae Lovanienses competition 2021 July 20, 2021
The campanile of Tienen, Belgium
The Leuven (Belgium) Bell and Carillon Society Campanae Lovanienses organized an international contest for carillon composition and arrangement marking the 300th anniversary of the birth of organist, carillonneur, and composer Matthias Vanden Gheyn (Tienen, 1721–Leuven, 1785). There were two categories: carillon compositions inspired by the concept of cosmology and carillon arrangements of a work of the Baroque period. (See the January 2021 issue of The Diapason, pages 6–7.)
In the first category, 32 submissions were received from twelve countries; in the second category, thirty submissions were received from eight countries. The submissions in category 1 were judged by an international jury of four composers/pianists and four carillonneurs. The submissions in category 2 were evaluated by the four carillonneurs in the jury. The results
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A look back to the West End before social distancing: this was the spectacular Moses musical The Prince of Egypt which opened at the Dominion Theatre on the eve of the pandemic
A look back to the West End before social distancing: this was the spectacular Moses musical The Prince of Egypt which opened at the Dominion Theatre .
IN A year that was disastrous for many people, the pandemic was a sudden blow to those who made their living as musicians and other performing artists, as well as the support staff for live events, particularly freelancers. Concerts were generally cancelled, though a few went online; opera houses and theatres were darkened; even church and cathedral choirs were silenced for much of the year. Regular events were either cancelled (Edinburgh Fringe) or reimagined (the Proms and the Three Choirs).