A decision has been made to move the 2020 festival to a virtual platform, it will run for an extended period from Thursday 5th to Wednesday 11th November and for 24hrs a day. A chance to explore workshops, concerts, makers’ demonstrations, Q&A’s and a virtual exhibition hall. Concerts will be streamed as live from the church of St Michael & All Angels Church, Blackheath.
All events will be streamed through the festival website – lifem.org
2020 LONDON INTERNATIONAL FESTIVAL OF EARLY MUSIC
THE 36th ANNUAL CONFERENCE ON MUSIC IN 18TH-CENTURY BRITAIN
TheStudy Day will take place on Friday 27th November 2020 at the Foundling Museum, London, or virtually if necessary. Offers of contributions to the programme are invited. We encourage proposals for presentations focusing on all aspects of music in 18th-century Britain. As well as formal papers we can accommodate formats such as round tables, reports on work-in-progress, lecture-recitals and performance. Proposals should be approximately 250 words. The length of the paper or presentation is normally 30 minutes, although shorter formats will be considered. Collaborative or related topic papers are also welcomed.
Please submit your abstract by e-mail to handel@foundlingmuseum.org.uk ; be sure to include your name, address or institution, telephone, and email address in the body of the message. Closing date for submissions is Thursday 24 September 2020. .
A Handbook for Studies in 18th-century English music, vol.XXIV. Offers of articles and reports, between 500 and 5,000 words, are welcomed. We aim to produce this in time for the Study Day (as above) if anyone has something they wish to commit to submitting around the beginning of October.
SOUNDING BOARD No 14 published
We are pleased to announce that the 14th edition of our e-magazine has been posted on the ‘Sounding Board’ page of our website, see https://www.harpsichord.org.uk/sounding-board/ where you will find links to the files ready for you to read on screen or print out as you wish. This edition, edited by Dan McHugh and Elaine Funaro, includes articles on the harpsichord in America both now and in the past, on Bach’s Cadence patterns and on the writing of contempoary music for the harpsichord. Our ‘ In Memoriam’ section honours the lives of Mark Ransom, Elizabeth de la Porte and Kenneth Gilbert.
READ ABOUT THE BHS’s CD
‘SHADOW JOURNEY’ the BHS recording of 21st Century Music for Harpsichord which includes the prize-winning pieces from our 10th Birthday Composition Competition. Full report in the ninth edition of SOUNDING BOARD. The CD has been released and can be purchased from Prima Facie via the following link: …..