{"id":553,"date":"2014-05-08T21:14:35","date_gmt":"2014-05-08T21:14:35","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.soton.ac.uk\/music\/?p=553"},"modified":"2014-05-08T21:16:25","modified_gmt":"2014-05-08T21:16:25","slug":"nuffield-launch","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.soton.ac.uk\/music\/2014\/05\/08\/nuffield-launch\/","title":{"rendered":"Nuffield launch"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_555\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-555\" style=\"width: 225px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><a href=\"http:\/\/blog.soton.ac.uk\/music\/files\/2014\/05\/NuffieldPianoLaunch2.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-555 \" alt=\"NuffieldPianoLaunch2\" src=\"http:\/\/blog.soton.ac.uk\/music\/files\/2014\/05\/NuffieldPianoLaunch2-225x300.jpg\" width=\"225\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/blog.soton.ac.uk\/music\/files\/2014\/05\/NuffieldPianoLaunch2-225x300.jpg 225w, https:\/\/blog.soton.ac.uk\/music\/files\/2014\/05\/NuffieldPianoLaunch2-768x1024.jpg 768w, https:\/\/blog.soton.ac.uk\/music\/files\/2014\/05\/NuffieldPianoLaunch2-700x933.jpg 700w, https:\/\/blog.soton.ac.uk\/music\/files\/2014\/05\/NuffieldPianoLaunch2.jpg 1944w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 225px) 100vw, 225px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-555\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Andy Fisher and David Owen Norris (channeling Billy Mayerl, stripey jacket and all)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>Last Wednesday we had an event to mark the opening of the newly-refurbished Nuffield theatre Kitchen, a caf\u00e9 space that is housing the lovely <a title=\"Musical offerings\" href=\"http:\/\/blog.soton.ac.uk\/music\/2013\/11\/13\/musical-offerings\/\" target=\"_blank\">Brinsmead baby grand<\/a> that was given to us in the autumn.\u00a0 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, <em><a title=\"Andy Fisher personal site\" href=\"http:\/\/www.andrewfishermusic.com\/en\/musical-theatre-credits\/\" target=\"_blank\">Girl in a Crisis<\/a><\/em>.\u00a0 And head of keyboard David Owen Norris provided a stunning tour of the music of Billy Mayerl, who turns out to have spent some time in Southampton in the 1920s learning his trade in a hotel band. \u00a0 We hope this will be the first of a new series of informal performances in the Kitchen &#8211; 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