{"id":1593,"date":"2016-01-25T11:30:39","date_gmt":"2016-01-25T11:30:39","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.soton.ac.uk\/music\/?p=1593"},"modified":"2016-01-25T11:30:39","modified_gmt":"2016-01-25T11:30:39","slug":"week-david-owen-norris","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.soton.ac.uk\/music\/2016\/01\/25\/week-david-owen-norris\/","title":{"rendered":"A week with David Owen Norris"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em>David Owen Norris, Professor of Music and Head of Keyboard and Percussion Studies, \u00a0gives us a round up of a week&#8217;s wide-ranging\u00a0activities&#8230;<\/em><\/p>\n<p>Some interesting coaching this week &#8211; the Banks String Quartet at the\u00a0Royal College of Music in Frank Bridge&#8217;s 1907 student piece, the quartet\u00a0in B flat, for the Bridge Study Day, where my fellow contributors included\u00a0Fabian Huss, Lewis Foreman, Anthony Payne and Stephen Banfield. Then,\u00a0radically different, our own two-piano-and-percussion ensemble, working\u00a0towards its Friday concert in Turner Sims, performing works by student\u00a0composers Harry Matthews and Christian Drew, with all the wonderful\u00a0sound-world of bowed vibraphones, plucked pianos, sampled birdsong and the\u00a0madly humming E-Bow. And tonight, with Peter Savidge, I shall rehearse\u00a0folksong settings by Butterworth, Vaughan Williams, Percy Grainger, Cecil\u00a0Sharp and Britten for Radio 3&#8217;s In Tune next Friday &#8211; a special folk\u00a0edition from Cecil Sharp House.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_1594\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-1594\" style=\"width: 3071px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><a href=\"http:\/\/blog.soton.ac.uk\/music\/files\/2016\/01\/120913_0181-prayerbook-adj.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-1594\" src=\"http:\/\/blog.soton.ac.uk\/music\/files\/2016\/01\/120913_0181-prayerbook-adj.jpg\" alt=\"David Owen Norris and Peter Savidge often work together. Here they're recording Norris\u2019s oratorio \u2018Prayerbook\u2019. Photo Clive Barda.\" width=\"3071\" height=\"1902\" srcset=\"https:\/\/blog.soton.ac.uk\/music\/files\/2016\/01\/120913_0181-prayerbook-adj.jpg 3071w, https:\/\/blog.soton.ac.uk\/music\/files\/2016\/01\/120913_0181-prayerbook-adj-300x186.jpg 300w, https:\/\/blog.soton.ac.uk\/music\/files\/2016\/01\/120913_0181-prayerbook-adj-1024x634.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/blog.soton.ac.uk\/music\/files\/2016\/01\/120913_0181-prayerbook-adj-332x205.jpg 332w, https:\/\/blog.soton.ac.uk\/music\/files\/2016\/01\/120913_0181-prayerbook-adj-700x434.jpg 700w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 3071px) 100vw, 3071px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-1594\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">David Owen Norris and Peter Savidge often work together. Here they&#8217;re<br \/>recording Norris\u2019s oratorio \u2018Prayerbook\u2019. Photo Clive Barda.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>David Owen Norris, Professor of Music and Head of Keyboard and Percussion Studies, \u00a0gives us a round up of a week&#8217;s wide-ranging\u00a0activities&#8230; Some interesting coaching this week &#8211; the Banks String Quartet at the\u00a0Royal College of Music in Frank Bridge&#8217;s 1907 student piece, the quartet\u00a0in B flat, for the Bridge Study Day, where my fellow contributors included\u00a0Fabian Huss, Lewis Foreman, &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":57407,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[207,66718,307208],"tags":[611778,1049463,1049462,643703],"class_list":["post-1593","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-performance","category-staff","category-undergraduate","tag-david-owen-norris","tag-in-tune","tag-radio-3","tag-royal-college-of-music","column","threecol"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p3YgXZ-pH","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.soton.ac.uk\/music\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1593","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.soton.ac.uk\/music\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.soton.ac.uk\/music\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.soton.ac.uk\/music\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/57407"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.soton.ac.uk\/music\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1593"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/blog.soton.ac.uk\/music\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1593\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1597,"href":"https:\/\/blog.soton.ac.uk\/music\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1593\/revisions\/1597"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.soton.ac.uk\/music\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1593"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.soton.ac.uk\/music\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1593"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.soton.ac.uk\/music\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1593"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}