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M&V On-line News
Barbican Screen (Cinemas 1 and 2 at the Barbican
in London, England) shows the best of the latest releases from the West
End opening date.
Anand Tucker's film Hilary and Jackie about the
life of the outstanding cellist Jacqueline du Pré opens on 22 January.
It is based on the book A Genius in the Family written by du Pré's
brother and sister. Starring Emily Watson, Rachel Griffiths, Charles Dance
and James Frain as Daniel Barenboim, the film contains musical sequences
and concert footage.
The Life of Anton Bruckner directed by Hans Conrad
Fischer will be screened at 3.30pm on 28 February. Introduced by Andrew
Youdell of the Bruckner Society and British Film Institute, it presents
a portrait of the composer using previously unknown pictorial material,
letters and personal documents.
Bruckner's 7th Symphony will be performed at the evening
concert in the Barbican Hall at 7.30pm on the same day. The LSO will be
under Lorin Maazel. Cinema Hotline: +44 (0)171 382 7000; Box Office: +44
(0)171 638 8891.
International Trumpet
Virtuoso Håkan Hardenburger will act as teacher and performer
in Birmingham Symphony Hall on 3 February.
At 10am he will instruct students from the Birmingham
Conservatoire on performance and presentation techniques as part of the
Angela Mortimer Masterclass Series. Admission free.
The City of Birmingham
Symphony Orchestra's evening concert will feature Hardenberger in Zimmerman's
inventive Trumpet Concerto Nobody Knows de Trouble I See. Box Office:
+44 (0)121 212 3333.
In his new biography, Richard Strauss: Man,
Musician, Enigma Michael Kennedy offers a logical explanation for the
seeming paradox of the composer's settled - some might say mundane - emotional
life compared to that of his passionate outpourings of ardent music.
Confronting Strauss's relationship with the Third Reich,
Kennedy explodes the myth that the composer was anti-Semitic.
Using recent scholarship, he evaluates newly-discovered
manuscripts and re-issues of early recordings which, combined with access
to important family documents kept in Bavaria, promises to make this the
most definitive study of the composer to date.
Published by Cambridge
University Press, £25, 451pp.
DO
YOU WANT TO SING CHANT?
Then come to the 'Choir and Organ' Choral Open Day on 20 March in Trinity
College Chapel, Cambridge.
Alan and Rebecca Tavener, directors of Scotland's foremost
early music group Cappella Nova will lead a workshop to study Symphonia
Virginum by Hildegard von Bingen.
Composer Ruth Byrchmore has written a set of canticles,
in honour of Hildegard, for girls' voices. They will be premièred
by the Chapel Choir of Harrogate Ladies College as part of a programme of
a cappella works.
Douglas Hollick will perform a selection of chant-based
music on the Chapel's renowned Metzler organ.
Registration, including workshop participation, tea, special
edition of Symphonia Virginum, concert and evening reception, costs
£25. Parties of 10 or more will receive a 10% discount.
Full details from Matthew Power, Choir & Organ, Orpheus
Publications, 7 St. John's Road, Harrow HA1 2EE, United Kingdom.
Shirley Ratcliffe, 18 January 1999
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