Location: UEA, Norwich

Date: 8 Mar 2013  – 9 Mar 2013

Speaker: Professor Arnold Whittall

Organiser: Dr Sharon Choa

Institution: University of East Anglia

Scallop imageBritten 100 Symposium at UEA

Benjamin Britten's centenary is being celebrated world-wide in the year 2013. This anniversary is particularly pertinent to UEA, as East Anglia was Britten's place of residence for the main part of his life, and in fact he was the chief advisor to the founding of the School of Music at UEA. Moreover, 2013 is also UEA's own 50th Anniversary. 

As part of the celebrations, UEA School of Music will be hosting a two day Symposium on Friday 8 March and Saturday 9 March 2013

Keynote speaker: Prof. Arnold Whittall

Arnold Whittall is Professor Emeritus of Music Theory & Analysis at King's College London. His books include The Music of Britten and Tippett, Musical Composition in the Twentieth Century, Exploring Twentieth-Century Music and The Cambridge Introduction to Serialism. A contributor to The Cambridge Companion to Benjamin Britten, his essays range from one of the earliest accounts of War Requiem to ‘"Twisted relations": method and meaning in Britten's Billy Budd' and ‘"Along the knife-edge": the topic of transcendence in Britten's musical aesthetic'. He is currently preparing a collection of articles, British Music after Britten, and continues to edit the Cambridge University Press series Music Since 1900.

Themes to be explored during the Symposium:

  1. Research on any aspect of the works we are performing throughout the season
  2. Britten and music for children;
  3. Britten and education;
  4. Britten the Performer (a session to include live performance is welcomed);
  5. Britten the ‘entrepreneur'
  6. Britten and his legacy

The Symposium will coincide with a performance of Sword in the Stone, participants and delegates are encouraged to attend the evening performance on Friday 8 March at the UEA Drama Studio.

Download a programme for the Britten Symposium [PDF 13KB]

If you are interested in attending the Symposium, please download the Britten Symposium Registration form [PDF 72.81KB]. 

The deadline for submission of registration forms is Thursday 14 February 2013. 

Please submit registration forms either by email to musicevents@uea.ac.uk or by post to Britten 100 Symposium, Registry 3.15, University of East Anglia, Norwich Research Park, Norwich, NR4 7TJ.

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