Music of Our Time (MOOT) – communal listening, contemporary music, creative discussion

 

 

 

 

PREVIOUS EVENTS:

MOOT 1 - March 16th: Musical allusions and illusions...

In the first meeting, we focus on a rollercoaster ride of a piece by Luciano Berio which steers through many of the great innovations of 20th century music, from its start up to the avant-garde and experimentalism of the 1960s.

 

 

 

  

  

  

 

 

MOOT 2 - April 20th: Revolutionaries and Imperialists Stravinsky, Schoenberg and Shostakovich

 

 

 

 

 

 

MOOT 3 - May 11th: Experimental minimalism and the return of tonality - 1960s & 70s

Reich, Glass, Ligeti, Mike Oldfield, Part, Riley 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

MOOT 4 - June 8th: Maximal minimalism - 1980s to the present

Adams, Reich, Glass, Nyman

 

 

 

**MOOT members: Please e-mail me with a piece of your own choice which you would like to present, or be presented, in the second half of this meeting.

 

 

MOOT 5 - July 20th: Surreal sounds

Schnittke, Rzewski, Unsuk Chin, Saariaho, Denyer

 

 

**MOOT members: Please e-mail me with a piece of your own choice which you would like to present, or be presented, at this meeting.

 

 





 

 

 

 

 

 

 

  

Wednesday, September 14th

Sarah Angliss: Travels with my Theremin + Musical Robots

 

Sarah Angliss introduces us to Leon Theremin's electronic instrument, designed in 1919 and used to great effect in Bernard Herrmann's score for The Day the Earth Stood Still and by Miklos Rozsa in Hitchcock's Spellbound.

 

  Wednesday, October 12th

Dr. Harry Witchel: You Are What You Hear: How Music and Territory Make Us Who We Are

 

Have you ever wondered why music makes you feel so good? Why did we evolve to have music, and what does music do to us? Dr. Harry Witchel, a specialist in music, pleasure and the brain, explains all this and more.

 

Wednesday, November 9th

   

 

An introduction to Philip Glass's opera Satyagraha

 

A background to the minimalist composer’s second 'portrait opera', focusing on the life of Gandhi during his time in South Africa . The Duke of York's cinema showing production broadcast live from the New York Met on November 19th.

 

  

Wednesday, December 14th

 

Helen Burford's Performance Lab: Exploring Contemporary Piano Music

 

Critically acclaimed pianist Helen Burford will lead a discussion on contemporary masterworks for piano, performing modern classics by Milton Babbitt, Jonathan Harvey, and Karlheinz Stockhausen.

 

Wednesday, January 18th, 2012   

Towards and beyond: An introduction to the music of Jonathan Harvey

 

In anticipation of the celebration of the life and work of Jonathan Harvey in its Total Immersion series at London 's Barbican Centre, we survey Harvey 's exploration into the mysteries of Christianity and Buddhism through electronic and traditional musical media.

MOOT meetings are held at the Friends Meeting House, Ship Street, Brighton on the following Wednesdays between 7-9pm:

 

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