Jane Austen’s music online (for free!)
Anyone who has read a Jane Austen novel, or seen one of the many adaptations of her work for film, knows that music plays a significant role.
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The Trembling Line – closing this week
If you haven’t yet had a chance to go over to the university’s John Hansard Gallery to experience Aura Satz’s wonderful show, The Trembling Line, now is the moment! The show closes on 23 January.
The centrepiece of the show is The Trembling Line, which Aura Satz completed during her Leverhulme Trust-funded residency at Southampton.
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What a Performance!
Our British Academy Postdoctoral Fellow Kate Guthrie consulted on a documentary for BBC 4, broadcasting this month. She writes about her experience:
Vera Lynn
In early September, I received out-of-the-blue an invitation to consult on a BBC 4 documentary. The producers were in the middle of filming a three-part series tracing the evolution of music hall in Britain, from its mid-19th-century roots, through the Golden Age of variety entertainment, to the working men’s clubs of the 1950s.
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Miss Sara Burgerhart’s English guittar
Congratulations to postgraduate researcher Jelma van Amersfoort on her article, “Miss Sara Burgerhart’s English guittar: The ‘guitarre Angloise’ in Enlightenment Holland,” published in the most recent issue of the Tijdschrift van de Vereniging voor Nederlandse Muziekgeschiedenis (TVNM), the journal of the Royal Society for Music History of the Netherlands.
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Cosmopolitan operetta
On the 24 and 25 November, we were privileged to welcome Derek Scott as the first guest speaker for this year’s programme of Hartley Residencies in Music. Master’s student Catherine Garry reports:
Professor Derek Scott
Launched in February 2015, the Hartley Residencies are a series of two-day events during which an eminent scholar is invited to share and discuss their current research.
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Launching Sound Heritage
A couple of weeks ago heritage professionals, historical performance experts and music academics came to Southampton for the inaugural meeting of Sound Heritage, a new project on music in English country houses of the 18th and 19th centuries.
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Cantores Carols
Just in time for the holidays: The University of Southampton Choral Scholars – Cantores Michaelis – have just released their first commercial recording. Christmas Carols 1500-2000 is issued by the Herald label and is now on sale in record shops, at Turner Sims Concert Hall on campus, and through Amazon, and will shortly be available on iTunes.
The carols are an eclectic mix.
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Coming soon – The Trembling Line
We are looking forward to the opening of Aura Satz’s new show at the University’s John Hansard Gallery, running from 3 December 2015 – 23 January 2016. The show, The Trembling Line, is the result of Aura’s year as Artist in Residence at the university, sponsored by The Leverhulme Trust, and featuring collaboration between the artist, the Department of Music, and the Institute of Sound and Vibration Research.
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Awakening Sleeping Beauty
Dr Kate Guthrie, who is British Academy Postdoctoral Research Fellow in the Department, tells us about a new article that has just come out:
Margot Fonteyn as Princess Aurora and Robert Helpmann as Prince Florimund in the Awakening scene (Act III) of the Sadler’s Wells Ballet production of ‘The Sleeping Beauty’ (1946) at the Royal Opera House, Covent Garden
Last week, my article ‘Awakening The Sleeping Beauty: The Creation of National Ballet in Britain’ came out in Music...
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New recording of modern harpsichord
Photo: Drew Kelly
We’re delighted to congratulate Southampton postgraduate research student Christopher Lewis on the release of his new CD on the Naxos label. Christopher specialises in music for the revival harpsichord, and his PhD work is part of the “Making of the Modern Harpsichord” project sponsored by the Arts and Humanities Research Council and the National Trust.
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