Music Journal - May 08

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Editorial - THE NEW PRESIDENT WRITES… by Roderick Swanston
This year Weidenfeld and Nicholson is publishing a superb new book: The Triumph of Music in the Modern World by Cambridge Professor T C W Blanning. (I say ‘superb’ from experience as I read the book prior to publication). In this lively study Blanning traces the change of status both of musicians and music over several centuries, especially since the mid-18th century. His overall thesis is that music has never had it so good... more

Annual Conference 2008 Keynote Speech: STATE OF THE ARTS; ARTS OF THE STATE by Sir John Tusa
Read Sir John Tusa's keynote speech at ism.org/annualconference… more

Feature - TAFAHUM: EAST MEETS WEST by Benjamin Ellin
Monday 7 July 2008 at St John’s, Smith Square, London, will be a special night. The concert that evening, entitled Tafahum (Arabic for understanding), will see the results of a collaborative cross-cultural music project. Music by Holst (Hammersmith) and Vaughan Williams (Overture: The Wasps) will be heard against traditional Middle Eastern folk pieces, some of which will be performed by the Al-farabi ensemble alone and others adapted for the full forces of orchestra, Sufi band and Youth Academy. One last addition to this broad offering of music from East and West will be the world première of my own Concerto for Ney and Orchestra, entitled – appropriately – Tafahum… more

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