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The Slade Lecture viii. Concert:
The Sound of My Life
The Composers Ensemble with Mary
Wiegold (soprano) and Omar Ebrahim (baritone)
A concert of new works, presented
by Professor Tom Phillips, Slade Professor of Fine Art 2005-2006
Wednesday 8th March 2006
The Holywell Music Room, 5.30pm
Admission free
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In 2006 renowned artist, Tom Phillips
was invited to be the guest lecturer of the Slade Lecture
Series at Oxford University. In what some deemed to be a controversial
move, Tom Phillips turned the eighth and final lecture into
a concert, reflecting his passion for new music. In the 1970s,
Phillips was a member of the Scratch Orchestra at the same
time as developing his career as a painter. The event featured
12 new commissions by friends and collaborators, and a piece
by Phillips himself. The collection covered a huge range of
styles from the simple and immediate Running Away by Brian
Eno (which Eno performed with the Composers Ensemble) to Tarik
O’Regan’s dramatic excerpts from this new opera
based on Conrad’s Heart of Darkness. The concert was
a very warm and special occasion and had a 4 star review by
critic Andrew Clements in the Guardian.
The eighth and final event of the University
of Oxford’s Slade Lecture Series is a concert at the
historic Holywell Music Rooms on 8th March 2006. The event
wasintroduced by Tom Phillips and featured a staggering number
of world premieres based on his texts, including a substantial
work by Harrison Birtwistle “Song of Myself” for
viola and baritone and other specially commissioned pieces
by Michael Nyman, Julian Anderson, John Woolrich, Robert Saxton,
Howard Skempton, Joby Talbot, Brian Eno, Robin Holloway, Gerard
McBurney and Tarik O’Regan.
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