Abstract
Premiered at Snape Maltings, Aldeburgh and recorded at Britten Studio for CD (2015)
Composed, with Guildhall research finding, for the Guildhall Vocal Department and Jane Manning
Librettist: Alasdair Middleton
Premiered and filmed at Guildhall Reflective Conservatoire conference 2015 with round-table discussion afterwards.
A work that was first performed with Jane Manning and Guildhall students, this piece is a dramatic meditation (part-comedic-part-melodramatic) on Schoenberg’s final days in Hollywood, with a somewhat mischievous exploration of Schoenberg’s music, dodecaphony, numerology, film and popular musical idioms of the 1940s Alasdair Middleton and I hope to expand this piece in the future – a topic that was discussed in the round-table presentation after the premiere.
RESEARCH AREAS: Life and work of Arnold Schoenberg; dodecaphony; film music and popular idioms of the 1940s; comedic elements in contemporary opera.
Composed, with Guildhall research finding, for the Guildhall Vocal Department and Jane Manning
Librettist: Alasdair Middleton
Premiered and filmed at Guildhall Reflective Conservatoire conference 2015 with round-table discussion afterwards.
A work that was first performed with Jane Manning and Guildhall students, this piece is a dramatic meditation (part-comedic-part-melodramatic) on Schoenberg’s final days in Hollywood, with a somewhat mischievous exploration of Schoenberg’s music, dodecaphony, numerology, film and popular musical idioms of the 1940s Alasdair Middleton and I hope to expand this piece in the future – a topic that was discussed in the round-table presentation after the premiere.
RESEARCH AREAS: Life and work of Arnold Schoenberg; dodecaphony; film music and popular idioms of the 1940s; comedic elements in contemporary opera.
| Original language | English |
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| Publication status | Published - 2015 |