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Celebrating the choral music of Morfydd Owen in her anniversary year

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Celebrating the choral music of Morfydd Owen in her anniversary year

Posted on 12 December 2018 by Lauren Sourbutts

On Friday 14 December at Eglwys Dewi Sant, Cardiff University Chamber Choir, under the direction of Peter Leech, will present rarely heard choral works by Welsh composer Morfydd Owen, marking […]

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Object #17. The Joly Braga Santos Piano Concerto: from Nearly-Forgotten to Object of Research

Posted on 4 October 2018 by Lauren Sourbutts

By Ana Beatriz Ferreira (PhD in Performance) Ever since organising and performing at the UK premiere of Joly Braga Santos’s Piano Concerto, in London in 2015, I have developed a […]

100 Objects

Object #16. Ralph: Life and Adventures of an Enemy Alien. An interdisciplinary workshop extravaganza!

Posted on 11 May 2018 by Lauren Sourbutts

By Ben Davis (PhD in Music) The object for this blog entry is the extract of a scene from a newly written play by Sophie Rashbrook about the life of […]

100 Objects

Object #15. Promoting Classical Music Today: Making a Video for a New CD of Piano Transcriptions

Posted on 23 March 2018 by Lauren Sourbutts

By David Aijon Bruno (MA Music Studies) When I volunteered to give this rather improvised presentation for Cardiff University’s Postgraduate Forum, little did I know that the platform came with […]

 
Object #14. Poulenc’s Organ Concerto: Allusions and Receptions

Object #14. Poulenc’s Organ Concerto: Allusions and Receptions

Posted on 9 February 2018 by Lauren Sourbutts

By Thomas Pitt (MA in Music Studies) Francis Poulenc (1899-1963) was never shy of borrowing (or, more accurately, stealing) materials from other composers’ works, whether by direct quotation or by […]

CoMa Music for All 2018

CoMa Music for All 2018

Posted on 11 January 2018 by Lauren Sourbutts

Martin Humphries (PhD in Composition) CoMA (Contemporary Music for All) is a UK-wide organisation promoting new music at an amateur level. This chimes perfectly with my own views, with the […]

Object #13. GFRIEND’s ‘Me Gustas Tu’ (오늘부터 우리는) and the South Korean wall of loudspeakers

Object #13. GFRIEND’s ‘Me Gustas Tu’ (오늘부터 우리는) and the South Korean wall of loudspeakers

Posted on 9 January 2018 by Lauren Sourbutts

By Andrew Goddard (MA Music) Being a fan of K-pop – that is, pop music from South Korea – I decided to present at the Postgraduate Forum the music video […]