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Two Moors Festival
The 'Two Moors Festival'' is an annual classical music festival based in Devon and Somerset, England. It covers the largest geographic area of any U.K. festival, and is based in the towns and villages of Dartmoor and Exmoor. History The festival was started in 2001 after the UK critical outbreak of Foot-and-mouth disease closed access to large part of the English countryside. The festival was held to bring some light relief and encourage people to return to the rural areas in Devon. It has become an annual event, with a concerts being staged at venues across Dartmoor and Exmoor. During the preparations for the 2007 festival, on 10 April 2007 a £45,000 Bösendorfer piano being delivered to the home of John and Penny Adie, the organisers of the festival, was dropped by delivery company G&R. A replacement piano was given by the makers for the following years festival. In 2016 the festival programme included the Carducci String Quartet, Opus Anglicanum with reader Zeb Soanes, and t ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Classical Music
Classical music generally refers to the art music of the Western world, considered to be distinct from Western folk music or popular music traditions. It is sometimes distinguished as Western classical music, as the term "classical music" also applies to non-Western art music. Classical music is often characterized by formality and complexity in its musical form and harmonic organization, particularly with the use of polyphony. Since at least the ninth century it has been primarily a written tradition, spawning a sophisticated notational system, as well as accompanying literature in analytical, critical, historiographical, musicological and philosophical practices. A foundational component of Western Culture, classical music is frequently seen from the perspective of individual or groups of composers, whose compositions, personalities and beliefs have fundamentally shaped its history. Rooted in the patronage of churches and royal courts in Western Europe, surviving earl ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Private Eye
''Private Eye'' is a British fortnightly satire, satirical and current affairs (news format), current affairs news magazine, founded in 1961. It is published in London and has been edited by Ian Hislop since 1986. The publication is widely recognised for its prominent criticism and Parody, lampooning of public figures. It is also known for its in-depth investigative journalism into under-reported scandals and cover-ups. ''Private Eye'' is Britain's best-selling current affairs magazine, and such is its long-term popularity and impact that many of recurring in-jokes in Private Eye, its recurring in-jokes have entered popular culture in the United Kingdom. The magazine bucks the trend of declining circulation for print media, having recorded its highest ever circulation in the second half of 2016. It is privately owned and highly profitable. With a "deeply conservative resistance to change", it has resisted moves to online content or glossy format: it has always been printed o ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Music Festivals Established In 2001
Music is generally defined as the art of arranging sound to create some combination of form, harmony, melody, rhythm or otherwise expressive content. Exact definitions of music vary considerably around the world, though it is an aspect of all human societies, a cultural universal. While scholars agree that music is defined by a few specific elements, there is no consensus on their precise definitions. The creation of music is commonly divided into musical composition, musical improvisation, and musical performance, though the topic itself extends into academic disciplines, criticism, philosophy, and psychology. Music may be performed or improvised using a vast range of instruments, including the human voice. In some musical contexts, a performance or composition may be to some extent improvised. For instance, in Hindustani classical music, the performer plays spontaneously while following a partially defined structure and using characteristic motifs. In modal jazz th ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Stephen Waley-Cohen
Sir Stephen Harry Waley-Cohen, 2nd Baronet (born 22 June 1946 in Westminster, London)"Sir Stephen Waley-Cohen, Bt Authorised Biography" ''Debrett's People of Today''. Retrieved 1 December 2012. is an English theatre owner-manager and producer, following a career as a businessman and financial journalist. He manages the St. Martin's Theatre in London's West End and is the current producer of the world's longest running play ''''. [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Bishop Of Exeter
The Bishop of Exeter is the ordinary of the Church of England Diocese of Exeter in the Province of Canterbury. Since 30 April 2014 the ordinary has been Robert Atwell.Diocese of Exeter – Election of new Bishop of Exeter formally confirmed (Accessed 9 May 2014) From the first until the sixteenth century the Bishops of Exeter were in full communion with the |
Sophie, Countess Of Wessex
Sophie, Countess of Wessex and Forfar, (born Sophie Helen Rhys-Jones, 20 January 1965) is a member of the British royal family. She is married to Prince Edward, Earl of Wessex and Forfar, the youngest brother of King Charles III. She grew up in Brenchley, Kent, and later attended West Kent College, training as a secretary. She then worked in public relations, representing firms across the UK, Switzerland and Australia before opening her own agency in 1996. She met Edward in 1987 while working for Capital Radio; they began dating in 1993. Their engagement was announced in January 1999 and they were married on 19 June at St George's Chapel at Windsor Castle. The couple have two children: Lady Louise Mountbatten-Windsor and James Mountbatten-Windsor, Viscount Severn, who are respectively fifteenth and fourteenth in line to the British throne. In 2002, Sophie closed her business interests and began full-time work as a member of the royal family. She is the patron of over 70 c ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Julian Perkins
Julian Perkins is a British conductor and keyboard player ( harpsichord, fortepiano and clavichord). Shortlisted for the Gramophone Award in 2021, he is Artistic Director of the Portland Baroque Orchestra in the USA. He lives in London, England and is also Founder Director of the early music ensemble Sounds Baroque and Artistic Director of Cambridge Handel Opera Company. As a conductor, Julian Perkins has been praised for his 'heartening dramatic energy' and 'dynamic direction', while his harpsichord playing has been described as 'superbly creative' and 'wonderfully adept and stylish'. He conducted the first professional recording of Eccles's ''Semele'' with the Academy of Ancient Music, and the world première recordings of Daniel Purcell's opera-oratorio ''The Judgment of Paris'' and Stephen Dodgson's opera ''Margaret Catchpole''. His solo discography includes world premières of virtuosic harpsichord suites by James Nares, John Christopher Smith and John Worgan, clavichord w ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Andreas Haefliger
Andreas Haefliger (born September 11, 1962) is a German-born Switzerland, Swiss pianist. Early life and education Born in Berlin on September 11, 1962, Haefliger is the youngest son of famed tenor Ernst Haefliger and interior designer and architect Anna Golin. He grew up in Berlin until the age of eight, when the family relocated to Munich, Germany. At the age of 15, Haefliger moved to New York City. A musically precocious child, Andreas began playing the piano before his fourth birthday, studying with Elisabeth Dounias-Sindermann and started performing publicly at age six. At age 12 he was accepted as the only non-college-aged student in the class of Hans Leygraf at the Mozarteum University Salzburg, Mozarteum Salzburg. Since an early age he was surrounded by intense vocal artistry, being required to accompany his father’s students, thereby acquiring the beginnings of what would become a highly individual vocal piano sound, and a sense of natural lyricism in his music-making. ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
New London Chamber Ensemble
The New London Chamber Ensemble is a wind quintet formed in 2001. The ensemble performs works such as Berio's ''Opus Number Zoo'', Saint-Saëns' ''Carnival of the Animals'' and new commissions by Edward Longstaff and John Woolrich. The group often introduces theatrical elements into its performances and has trained with the actor and writer Danny Scheinmann and the theatre directors Phillip Parr and Peta Lily. Since 2001, the New London Chamber Ensemble has been Quintet in Residence to the National Youth Chamber Orchestra of Great Britain, a youth chamber orchestra for highly talented young musicians which performs without conductor. The Ensemble’s work involves coaching orchestral and chamber music repertoire in preparation for bi-annual concerts. In 2003 it also worked with Nuphonics Young Composers in an education project with the East Sussex Wind Orchestra. The current members of the quintet are Robert Manasse (flute), Melanie Ragge (oboe), Neyire Ashworth (clarinet), St ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Julian Lloyd Webber
Julian Lloyd Webber (born 14 April 1951) is a British solo cellist, conductor and broadcaster, a former principal of Royal Birmingham Conservatoire and the founder of the In Harmony music education programme. Early years and education Julian Lloyd Webber is the second son of the composer and music educator William Lloyd Webber and his wife, Jean Johnstone (a piano teacher). He is the younger brother of the composer Andrew Lloyd Webber. The composer Herbert Howells was his godfather. He won a scholarship to the Royal College of Music in 1968 and completed his studies with Pierre Fournier in Geneva in 1973. Career Lloyd Webber made his professional debut as a cellist at the Queen Elizabeth Hall, London, in September 1972 when he gave the first London performance of the cello concerto by Sir Arthur Bliss. Throughout his career, he has collaborated with a wide variety of musicians, including conductors Yehudi Menuhin, Lorin Maazel, Neville Marriner, Georg Solti, Yevgeny Svetl ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Wolfgang Holzmair
Wolfgang Holzmair (born 1952 in Vöcklabruck) is an Austrian baritone. Holzmair studied at the Vienna Academy of Music and Dramatic Art. He won 2nd prize in the baritone class of the 's-Hertogenbosch International Vocal Competition in 1981, and a year later 1st prize in the Musikverein International Lieder Competition, Vienna. Opera Holzmair spent about six years with opera companies in Bern ( Bern Theatre) and Gelsenkirchen (Musiktheater im Revier) before successes in Udo Zimmermann's ''The White Rose'' and Claude Debussy's '' Pelléas et Mélisande'' brought him to general attention. His repertoire includes rarely performed works such as Henze's '' Boulevard Solitude'', Nigel Osborne’s ''The Electrification of the Soviet Union'', Hindemith's ''Neues vom Tage'' and Poulenc's ''Les mamelles de Tirésias''. More standard works include Richard Strauss's '' Capriccio'' (the Count), ''Ariadne auf Naxos'' (Harlequin and the Music Master), ''Der Rosenkavalier'' (Faninal); Mo ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Thomas Allen (singer)
Sir Thomas Boaz Allen (born 10 September 1944) is an English operatic baritone. He is widely admired in the opera world for his voice, the versatility of his repertoire, and his acting—leading many to regard him as one of the best lyric baritones of the late 20th century. In October 2011, he was appointed Chancellor of Durham University, succeeding Bill Bryson. Early years Born to Florence and Thomas Allen in the mining village of Seaham Harbour, County Durham, in 1944, Thomas Allen studied at Ryhope Grammar School from 1955 to 1964, becoming captain of his house and later head boy while also doing well in sports, such as in athletics, rugby and especially golf. It was during his time at school that his singing voice was first observed by the then Physics master, Denis Weatherley, himself a well-known baritone in the county and especially renowned for Northumberland songs. Weatherley would then go on to be Allen's first tutor, training the young baritone during lunch b ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
