Seminar McMordie Hall
13 April 2016 1pm Seminar McMordie Hall Bax’s In Memoriam: Memory, Martyrdom and Modalities of Irishness Aidan Thomson, Queen’s University Belfast
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Concert Sonic Lab
12 April 2016 1.10pm Concert Sonic Lab Arnold Bax and 1916: A Concert of Chamber Music for Flute, Viola and Harp Jennifer Sturgeon (fute), Ruth Bebb (viola), Tanya Houghton (harp)
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RTÉ National Symphony Orchestra National Concert Hall, Dublin Friday 19 February 2016, 8 pm BAX In memoriam (1916) [15′] LUTOSLAWSKI Cello Concerto [24′] BEETHOVEN Symphony No. 3 in E flat, ‘Eroica’ [50′] Conductor: Duncan Ward Narek Hakhnazaryan cello
Continue reading →“When Arnold met Patrick” – Harry White writes about Bax.
Harry White, Professor of Music at University College Dublin and a Fellow of the Royal Irish Academy of Music, has written an article for the Independent.IE on Sir Arnold Bax’s meeting with Patrick Pearse, who was executed 100 years ago … Continue reading →
WORLD PREMIERE Performance of piano-version of Nympholept on YouTube.
The pianist Philip Mead gave the world-premiere performance of Bax’s Nympholept in its original arrangement for piano solo at a concert that took place in the Mumford Theatre, Anglia Ruskin University, at 1:10pm on Friday, 6th November 2015. The recital, … Continue reading →
FAND MUSIC PRESS publishes two Bax Piano Arrangements.
Fand Music Press has published Bax’s Scherzo for Piano and Dance in the Sun, the latter in an arrangement by John Mitchell. Dance in the Sun is the second of Four Orchestral Pieces that Bax wrote in 1912–13 and Mitchell’s … Continue reading →
“Bax, Ireland and 1916” on RTÉ Lyric fm
RTÉ Lyric fm will be broadcasting ‘Bax, Ireland and 1916’ on 19 February as part of their weekly ‘Lyric Feature’ programme. The programme runs from 7 to 8 p.m., and will be followed immediately afterwards by a live broadcast of … Continue reading →
A Tribute to Sir Arnold
Orchesterhaus des Mozarteumorchesters Salzburg Erzbischof-Gebhard-Straße 10 Salzburg/Austria Sunday November 22, 19.30 Members of Mozarteumorchester Ingrid Hasse, Flöte; Doris Rehm, Harfe; Rudi Hollinetz, Violine; Barnaba Poprawski, Viola; Marcus Pouget, Cello Arnold Bax, Sonata for flute and harp Arnold Bax, Rhapsodic Ballad … Continue reading →
Bax and Sibelius letters donated to British Library
Clifford Gillam, the founder of the original Arnold Bax Society, has recently donated to the British Library two very interesting letters that were addressed to him—one from Bax, the other from Sibelius. The first of these was in response to … Continue reading →
Historic Bax from Boyd Neel on Lyrita
Lyrita issue the 1961 premiere of Bax’s Fauré Variations Benjamin: Ballade for String Orchestra Stevens: Sinfonietta for Strings Panufnik: Lullaby ‘Kolysanka’ for 29 strings and 2 harps Bax: Variations on the name Gabriel Fauré for harp and string orchestra The … Continue reading →