Just in time to let the MCMListers near London know about the Ronald
Stevenson day on 23 Feb. The details that follow are supplied by Charles
Wiffen, who has organised the day. Ronald Stevenson is travelling down
from Scotland to be there; I hope as many of you as can make it will turn
up too.
RONALD STEVENSON: A CELEBRATION
When: Tuesday 23 February 1999 from 2.00pm until 8.00pm
Where: Durrington Room and Recital Hall, Royal College of Music, Prince
Consort Road, London SW7
Admission Free!
Contact Kathy Heald for more information (0171 591 4366)
The Royal College of Music adds to the recent celebrations of Ronald
Stevenson's 70th year with a day of events presenting the composer's own
music and some of his influences: he has kindly agreed to be present and to
discuss his music in public.
Events include:
· 2.00pm: Welcome and introduction by Charles Wiffen (Grove Junior Research
Fellow)
· 2.30pm: Busoni Forum
Busoni: mentor in absentia: a Busoni forum and recital by Karl Lutchmayer
(Constant & Kit Lambert Fellow)
· 4.00pm: tea
· 4.30pm: Transcription Forum
Plaited like the generations of men: a transcription forum and recital of
C20 operatic fantasies, given by Charles Wiffen
· 6.00pm: refreshments
· 6.30pm: Pre-Concert Discussion
chaired by Dr Paul Banks (RCM Research Development Fellow)
· 7.00pm: Concert
a recital of Stevenson's vocal and chamber music by current and former RCM
students in the Recital Hall
We hope to:
· introduce the music of Ronald Stevenson to a wider audience;
· provide Stevenson's public with an opportunity to hear his views on his
own creative intentions and sensibilities - both as composer and performer;
· pay tribute to an enduring force in British musical life in his seventieth
year.
Programmes:
Busoni: 'mentor in absentia'
a Busoni forum and recital by Karl Lutchmayer (Constant & Kit Lambert
Fellow), with Dr Paul Banks (RCM Research Development Fellow)
Chopin Variations (1924 version)
Sonatina Seconda
Indianisches Tagebuch
Indianische Erntelied (premiere)
Toccata
Operatic Fantasies: 'Plaited like the generations of men'
a transcription forum and recital by Charles Wiffen - Grove Junior Research
Fellow) of C20 operatic fantasies
Chamber Fantasy on Carmen Busoni
Ramble on the last love-duet from Der Rosenkavalier Strauss/Grainger
Peter Grimes Fantasy Britten/Stevenson
Evening Concert: 'L'art nouveau du chant'
a concert of Ronald Stevenson's vocal and chamber music preceded by a
discussion of the music chaired by Dr Paul Banks (RCM Research Development
Fellow)
Bergstimmung for horn and piano (1985)
(Oliver Green, horn; Charles Wiffen, piano)
Dedication
Master and Pupil
Spring
(from Nine Haiku)
(Andrew Locke Nicholson, tenor; Jakob Rothoff, piano)
Dedication
When the golden day is done
(from A Child's Garden of Verses)
(Laura Mitchell, soprano)
Rain
Summer Sun
(from A Child's Garden of Verses)
(Nicholas Watts, tenor)
>From Factories and Fields
Oh it's nonsense
(from Factories and Fields)
(Mark Wood, baritone, James Young, piano)
The Source
(From Two Tagore Songs)
(Hannah Garner, soprano; Michael Mizgailo-Cayton, piano)
Blows the wind today
I saw rain falling
(from Hills of Home)
(Leandros Taliotis, baritone; Michael Mizgailo-Cayton, piano)
Recitative and Air in Memoriam Shostakovich for viola and piano (1976)
(Linda Fredericksson, viola; Charles Wiffen, piano)
Fantasy Quartet Alma Alba (1985)
(The London Archduke Trio with Linda Fredericksson)
Cheers
Martin Anderson
Toccata Press
http://www.classical.net/music/books/toccata/
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