miércoles, 19 de agosto de 2015
CURSO SOBRE WAGNER EN ESCOCIA
'The Young Wagner: his first three operas' - Residential Course 14-17 September 2015
Following his excellent study course on Wagner’s last opera, Parsifal, in September 2014, Derek Watson B.Mus. LRAM will return to the beginning of Wagner’s operatic career in a residential course on The Young Wagner in the pleasant and comfortable surroundings of Gartmore House.
This course will consider the early life and music of Richard Wagner, taking his story to 1842 when the 29-year-old had his first success with Rienzi, the Last of the Tribunes [after Bulwer-Lytton]. Along the way we'll look at highlights of Die Feen [The Fairies, after Gozzi] and Das Liebesverbot [The Ban on Love, after Shakespeare]. The influences of German Romantic, Italian, and French grand opera, together with literature, history and fairy tales, all combine in the melting pot from which the composer continued to draw in all his later dramas. For this reason each of the first three operas is of fascination in itself, and all contain much enjoyable and beautiful music. Sessions will be illustrated with visual material, musical examples and recorded extracts.
Course description
The course will start at 4pm on Monday 14th September 2015 with the first teaching session, followed by dinner and a second teaching session, and finish on Thursday 17th September 2015 after lunch at 13.00 (with two teaching sessions that morning). This is a new pattern for the course to maximise our time at Gartmore and minimise your costs.
The detailed programme and information about reading material, etc. will be sent out nearer the time but please book now to ensure your place.
Mas información sobre el curso:
http://www.wagnerscotland.net/young-wagner-his-first-three-operas-residential-course-14-17-september-2015
FESTIVAL DE BAYREUTH 2015
Sa 22.08.2015 20:05 - 00:00 Uhr
ARD RADIOFESTIVAL
Bayreuther Festspiele
Richard Wagner: Rheingold
Nach drei Jahren hat er auf dem Grünen Hügel genug von der Tetralogie um einen verfluchten Nibelungenring: Der Generalmusikdirektor der Bayerischen Staatsoper, Kirill Petrenko, ist an seinem Stammhaus in München derart ausgelastet, dass er Wagners vierteiliges Monumentalwerk in Bayreuth ab 2016 dem erfahrenen Kollegen Marek Janowski überlässt - wodurch es ein weiteres interessantes Hügeldebüt geben wird. Petrenko steht dieses Jahr also zum vorerst letzten Mal im mystischen Abgrund, dessen akustische Tücken er auf Anhieb so souverän in den Griff bekam wie wenige vor ihm. Die heiß umstrittene Inszenierung von Frank Castorf gibt sich mit den vielsagenden Bühnenbildern von Aleksandar Denic sicher auch im dritten Jahr teils nostalgisch, teils trashig: als Machtkampf um Erdöl statt um märchenhaftes Gold.
Wolfgang Koch, Wotan
Daniel Schmutzhard, Donner
Lothar Odinius, Froh
John Daszak, Loge
Claudia Mahnke, Fricka
Allison Oakes, Freia
Nadine Weissmann, Erda
Albert Dohmen, Alberich
Andreas Conrad, Mime
Wilhelm Schwinghammer, Fasolt
Andreas Hörl, Fafner
Mirella Hagen, Woglinde
Julia Rutigliano, Wellgunde
Anna Lapkovskaja, Floßhilde
Chor und Orchester der Bayreuther Festspiele
Leitung: Kirill Petrenko
martes, 18 de agosto de 2015
jueves, 6 de agosto de 2015
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| Leiths School of Food and Wine celebrates 40 years in style! |
By way of celebration Leiths are hosting a series of conversations with key players in the food industry; chefs, food writers, stylists and pioneers to reminisce about the last 40 years, discuss and even predict the next phase of the nation’s fascinating food journey.
Having designed a logo for the 40th birthday celebrations, they asked us to design and build a website to both promote the events and sell tickets. The solution was an elegant and simple one-page site (technically speaking it is a Craft CMS and Shopify integration). From conception to first ticket sale we had 48 hours but delivered with no problems!
If you are interested in food take a look at the first event, legends Pru Leith, Rick Stein and Yotam Ottolenghi are all speaking!
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| Special Design Studio, Gallery 95, 93-95 King Street, Norwich, NR1 1PH, UK. 01603 631107 info@specialdesignstudio.co.uk |
miércoles, 29 de julio de 2015
CONCURSO DE COMPOSICIÓN NOTEFLIGHT
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July 2015 Newsletter
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Big Band Jazz Composition Contest Winners!
Our judges have listened carefully to each submission, and they have selected the grand prize winner: Haley Woodrow, and two runners-up: Anthony Branca and Colby Barham. Congratulations to these fine composers, and a big thank you to everyone who participated! As with our Video Game Music contest, we were amazed - but not surprised - by the consistently high level of the submissions, and the judging was a tough job. We are grateful to our wonderful judges, Paul Murtha and Rick Stitzel, for the effort and care they put into this contest. And be sure to check out our next contest! Read the Rest
Summer Composition Contest: Write Music for Our Daily 7-Minute Workout!
Instead of leaving you with a bleak, contest-free summer, we decided to offer something light-hearted as a break from our more serious-minded competitions. Watch the Noteflight team work out to your music! It's a little known fact that every afternoon, we here at Noteflight engage in a healthy ritual known as the "Seven-minute workout". We want YOU to write music for us to accompany our workout! As your reward, we will post a video of the entire team doing the full workout to your music, and we will use the music in our daily routine. Follow the link for details. Read the Rest | |
lunes, 27 de julio de 2015
viernes, 24 de julio de 2015
SPECIAL DESIGN STUDIO
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| RSPB campaign to attract visitors to local reserves launched |
We worked closely with the team at Eastern England RSPB to design a hyper-local community engagement programme. The purpose of the project is to increase people’s engagement with both wildlife and their local reserve.
Hyper-local is a key element in the project, this campaign is targeted at just two different postcodes with a piece of highly actionable direct mail given to each child in the catchment school of that postcode.
The postcard tells the family exactly how far they are from their local reserve and gives them free entry for the children. The idea is that they visit the reserve, learn about how to create homes for nature and then go home and put some of those things into practice and put the window sticker in the window.
Gradually postcodes will fill up with window stickers and the bug hotels etc in the gardens will start to create green corridors! In essence we want to mobilise people to extend their local reserve into their own garden, school or community space.
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| See what we've been up to on the London Underground! |
| Special Design Studio, Gallery 95, 93-95 King Street, Norwich, NR1 1PH, UK. 01603 631107 info@specialdesignstudio.co.uk |
martes, 21 de julio de 2015
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