Reviving the modern harpsichord
Harpsichordist Christopher Lewis is working on a PhD as part of our ‘Making of the Modern Harpsichord’ project in collaboration with the National Trust.
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Year of Jubilee
Lecturer Rachel van Besouw, who in her day job does research on music for cochlear implantees, has been singing with the university’s community choir.
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Excellence in Teaching Awards
Congratulations to our colleague Andy Fisher, Senior Lecturer in Music and Head of Commercial Composition, who was the winner for the Faculty of Humanities for ‘Best Feedback’ in this year’s Excellence in Teaching Awards. These awards are sponsored by the Students’ Union, and Andy was nominated by the SUSU Faculty Officer, Academic Presidents and Course Reps from the Faculty of Humanities.
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Nuffield launch
Andy Fisher and David Owen Norris (channeling Billy Mayerl, stripey jacket and all)
Last Wednesday we had an event to mark the opening of the newly-refurbished Nuffield theatre Kitchen, a café space that is housing the lovely Brinsmead baby grand that was given to us in the autumn. Andy Fisher, our head of commercial composition, played Gershwin and accompanied postgraduate singer Lizzie Rogers in a sneak preview of some of the songs from his new one-woman show, Girl in a Crisis.
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Singing success
Now back in term after the Easter break, we have heard some very good news from Hannah Woodhouse (year 3), who has been accepted onto The Sixteen’s prestigious apprentice scheme:
Singers on the current Genesis Sixteen programme
A couple of weeks back I learned the exciting news that I had been accepted onto the 2014/2015 Genesis Sixteen choral scheme for young singers.
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Fauré in Winchester
Undergraduate singer and pianist Anna Stonehouse tells us about recording in Winchester cathedral for an upcoming Easter season broadcast by BBC 2:
On Tuesday 25th March I took part in the ‘Passiontide Concert’, singing Faure’s Requiem with the outstanding Winchester Waynflete Singers, teamed with the BBC Concert Orchestra. Recorded by BBC Radio 2, the concert will be aired on Good Friday, 18 April at 8pm.
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Why ‘Happy’ makes us happy
Yesterday’s Guardian featured an article asking the experts why Pharell Williams’s single ‘Happy’ works so well. Southampton’s own Andy Fisher, Head of Commercial Composition, provided
an analysis of the musical basis of the song’s appeal – check it out here.
And here’s the video of ‘Happy’ for anyone who needs cheering up today.
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Sea Slugs at School
Sax player Rob Kitney (year 3) tells us what Southampton-based band The Sea Slugs were up to just before the break:
On Friday 7th March, The Sea Slugs made their way to Crawley to lead a workshop in afrobeat music with the year 9s at Hazelwick School. As a brief introduction to The Sea Slugs, we are a 15-piece afrobeat band, many of whom are currently studying at the University or have graduated in recent years.
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Spring break
We’re now on spring break until 28 April. We have a few things going on during the vacation and we hope to make some posts about them when we get back. Until then happy spring break from the staff and students of Music at Southampton.
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Meter in the Midwest
Reader in Music Danuta Mirka has just returned from Indiana, where she was a distinguished guest at one of the largest faculties of music in America:
The Jacobs School of Music
Last week I stayed in the US, guest lecturing and teaching in the Music Theory Department of the Jacobs School of Music at Indiana University, Bloomington.
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