Two days of Music and Talks around the work of our late colleague and friend
City University London, 1st & 2nd March 2016
and
A Night of Irish Music
at Café OTO, 2nd March 2016
Tuesday 1st March 2016
11.30 Welcome
11.40 Concert 1: Preface
Harry Partch Archytas’ Enharmonic arr. by Bob Gilmore
Harry Partch The Rose
Marc Sabat Gioseffo Zarlino
Harry Partch By the Rivers of Babylon
SCORDATURA: Alfrun Schmid voice, harp, Reinier van Houdt Chromelodeon/keyboard, Elisabeth Smalt viola, Adapted Viola, Lucas van Helsdingen bass clarinet, Samuel Vriezen Kithara I, with special guest John Schneider voice and Adapted Guitar I
12.00 Paper Session 1: Performance Space
Chair: Catherine Laws
Christopher Fox: The Climate since Bob Gilmore
Jennifer Walshe: Hacking History and Re-Imagining Ireland
14.00 Concert 2: Frank Denyer: the hidden voice
Viola, Woman and Crow (2004)… Whispers 1–7 (2010)… A Fragile Thread 1 (1979)… Whispers 10–12 (2010)… A Fragile Thread 2 (1979)… Woman with Jinashi Shakuhachi (2008) with a new Epilogue for Bob (2016)
Elisabeth Smalt viola, Kiku Day shakuhachi, Benjamin Marquise Gilmore violin, Frank Denyer voice
15.00 Paper Session 2: Lecture Theatre AG21
Chair: Frank Denyer
John Schneider: Partch: ReGenesis of a Music
Sam Richards: The Global and the Local Based on personal conversations with Bob Gilmore,
16.00 Concert 3: Intermezzo
Christopher Fox The Dark Road
Anton Lukoszevieze Score Lexicon
Anton Lukoszevieze, cello
16.30 Paper Session 3: Lecture Theatre AG21
Chair: Trevor Wiggins
Marc Sabat: Composing with tuneable intervals
Kevin Volans: Art begins where Craftsmanship Ends
Paul Griffiths: A Little of What We Lost
19.00 Concert 4: Nicola Vicentino: a second life
Nicola Vicentino Madonna il poco dolce
Yannis Kyriakides Poco dolce, molto amaro
Harald Muenz allo studio con Nicola
John Croft Soav’e dolc’ardore
Nicola Vicentino Soav’e dolc’ardore
hans w. koch iI poco dolce
Anne La Berge Languid sighs
Lucia D’Errico Madonna il poco dolce
Scott Mc Laughlin Untitled (for Bob)
Christopher Fox Dolce…pianto
Linda Buckley Musica prisca caput
Nicola Vicentino Musica prisca caput
Excepting the Vicentino—all UK premières, composed 2014 or 2015
SCORDATURA & guests: Alfrun Schmid voice, Elisabeth Smalt viola, Reinier van Houdt keyboard, Benjamin Marquise Gilmore violin, Lucas van Helsdingen bass clarinet, coffee grinder
19.45 Interval
20.00 Concert 4 (cont.): Gilmore String Quartet with Alfrun Schmid voice
Claude Vivier Quatuor à cordes no.1 (1968)
Walter Zimmermann Novalis Fragment ‘for Bob’ (2015)
Kevin Volans Movement for String Quartet (1987)
John Cage String Quartet in Four Parts (1950)
Benjamin Marquise Gilmore violin, Sijie Chen violin, Hannah Shaw viola, Christian Elliott cello
Wednesday 2nd March 2016
11.00 Concert 5: Preface
Marc Sabat Bob Gilmore, Elisabeth Smalt (2015)
François-Bernard Mâche Kubatum from the songcycle Kengir, chants d’amour sumériens
Claude Vivier Tao Tao Tao
Benjamin Marquise Gilmore violin, Hannah Shaw viola (Sabat)
Scordatura: Alfrun Schmid voice, tubular bells, Elisabeth Smalt Adapted Viola, Reinier van Houdt keyboard, Lucas van Helsdingen bass clarinet, Samuel Vriezen glockenspiel
11.15 Paper Session 4: Performance Space
Chair: Trevor Wiggins
Frank Denyer: Some Questions that Remain
John Croft: Spectral Music and the Taming of Sonority Spectral music
12.10 Concert 6: Harry Partch: the Truth about Tune
Harry Partch December 1942
Harry Partch Two Psalms
Harry Partch Barstow
Harry Partch Li Po Songs
Harry Partch Dark Brother
John Schneider voice, Adapted Guitar I, Adapted Viola; Alfrun Schmid voice; Elisabeth Smalt Adapted Viola; Reinier van Houdt Chromelodeon (keyboard version); Samuel Vriezen, Kithara; Lucas van Helsdingen, indian drum
14.00 Paper Session 5: Lecture Theatre AG21
Chair: Catherine Laws
Scott Mc Claughlin: All Young Composers need a Bob in their Lives
Linda Buckley: Bob Gilmore as Guiding Light for New Music in Ireland
14.40 Concert 7: Intermezzo
Claude Vivier Pièce pour Violon et Piano (1975)
Patrick Ozzard-Low Four Piano Pieces (2013-16)
Benjamin Marquise-Gilmore (violin), Andrew Zolinsky (piano), Patrick Ozzard-Low (piano)
15.05 Round Table Discussion
Chair: Christopher Fox
16.00 Concert 8: Horatiu Radulescu
Radulescu Lux Animae for solo cello (1996)
Radulescu Piano Sonata No 2 op. 82 (1990-91)
Rădulescu Exil Intérieur op.98 Sonata for cello and piano (1997)
Catherine Tunnell cello, Ian Pace piano
The programme continues with ‘A Night of Irish Music’ at Café OTO from 8pm
Deirdre McKay For Bob
Elisabeth Smalt viola
Kevin Volans For Bob
Elisabeth Smalt viola, Kevin Volans piano
Ailís Ní Riain Into The Sea of Waking Dreams
Ailís Ní Riain piano & voice
Linda Buckley fridur
Andrew Zolinsky piano
Scott Mc Laughlin Blues for Horatiu
Reinier van Houdt piano
Jennifer Walshe Historical Documents of the Irish Avant-Garde Vol. 1: Dada
Jennifer Walshe voice
interval
Karen Power (electronics) & John Godfrey (guitar)
duo improvisation
Garrett Sholdice I remember Bob
Michelle O’Rourke voice, Garrett Sholdice piano,
Benedict Schlepper-Connolly synthesizer
Benedict Schlepper-Connolly Cyan
Benedict Schlepper-Connolly violin
Donnacha Dennehy Bulb
Elizabeth Cooney violin, Kate Ellis cello, Andrew Zolinsky piano
with texts by Bob Gilmore read by Bernard Clarke and Toner Quinn
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