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ROYAL OPERA HOUSE
This Thursday Digital Theatre Plus
launches its first selection of content from this iconic production house.
"The Visually-impaired musicians' lives project provides an investigation into the musical practices, participation and learning experiences of blind and partially-sighted people. It is a research project based at the Institute of Education, University of London, in partnership with the Royal National Institute of Blind People (RNIB) and the Royal Academy of Music funded by the Arts and Humanities Research Council (AHRC). Further information can be found on the project website at http://vimusicians.ioe.ac.u
"The project is still running a survey for all types of visually-impaired musicians, including instrumentalists, singers, composers, music teachers and others; whether top professionals, amateurs or beginners. If you have any contacts or know anyone with contacts to visually-impaired musicians you’d be very welcome to forward information about the project and the survey to them.
"The online version of the survey can be accessed at https://www.surveymonkey.com/s/RJHBGNH
or via the link on our project homepage. It is also possible to arrange to complete the survey via telephone or Skype.
… a portrait of Sydney Owenson, Lady Morganon The Lyric Feature25 July 2014 RTÉ Lyric fm 7-8pm 96-99fmA portrait of the extraordinary celebrity cult figure - Sydney Owenson, later Lady Morgan, who penned the once-famous novel - The Wild Irish Girl (1806). In addition to her writing, she also enjoyed a flourishing career as a drawing-room singer and performer on the Royal Portable Irish harp built by John Egan. Sydney Owenson styled herself on Glorvina, the harp-playing princess from her novel, thereby initiating a fashion for her own brand of pseudo-Celtic dress, and she also composed some quite influential songs, a fact that is no longer recognised.Music on the programme includes specially recorded world-premiere recordings of Owenson’s Hibernian Melodies performed by Laura Murphy, mezzo soprano and Una Hunt, piano, along with harp airs played by Boston-based Nancy Hurrell on John Egan’s harps. Contributors include Nancy Hurrell, Claire Connolly (Professor of Modern English, University College Cork) and Julie Donovan (George Washington University, Washington D.C.). Engineering by Ben Rawlins.Presented and produced by Una Hunt.A Heritage Music Production for RTÉ Lyric fm. This programme is made with the support of the Broadcasting Authority of Ireland's Sound and Vision Funding Scheme.LISTEN BACKThe Wild Irish Girl can be heard live on the internet through the RTÉ lyric fm website and can be accessed at any time for a week after broadcast. Just go to http://www.rte.ie/lyricfm/features/ and click the 'LISTEN BACK' icon to hear the current feature. Thereafter, the programme is available on the Lyric fm Archive."
""The most expensive and most disastrous project this city has ever seen in its history." So said Leicester's mayor of the city's Curve theatre in 2012. A curveball for the Curve certainly, but one the venue has managed to turn into a home run, as its chief executive Fiona Allan revealed to us yesterday in a refreshingly honest blog for Culture Pros. The theatre has since increased ticket sales by 130% and has been accepting awards left, right and centre." Read the post HERE.
Technology has changed art, and this is what it looks like: A major new exhibition looks at technology's effect on the creative arts, by Aaron Souppouris on July 3, 2014 10:09 am Email @AaronIsSocial Here's the link!
