Jeremy Summerly and the Choir of London give three performances
in and around Jerusalem of my setting of 'There is a green hill',
and the world première of 'The Peace of Jerusalem', an
unaccompanied choral coda to the oratorio 'Jerusalem', which
tells the biblical story of Jerusalem-Yerushalayim in twelve
movements. This extra thirteenth movement was commissioned
anonymously and completed earlier this week. The first quarter
of the oratorio is also now complete, and the plan is to finish
it all by September of this year, and for the Hineni Orchestra to
record it in the autumn. Texts & more details at:
http://shop.thewelcomestranger.org/index.asp?function=DISPLAYPRODUCT&productid=92
SATURDAY 31 MARCH *Dormition Church, Jerusalem*
'There is a green hill' (first Israel performance)
The Choir of London conducted by Jeremy Summerly
To buy the score of 'There is a green hill':
http://shop.thewelcomestranger.org/index.asp?function=CART&mode=ADD&productid=37
To watch a video of 'There is a green hill' on YouTube:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=39pFiDzTQUo
MARCH 2007 *The RAM: rewriting musical history*
In my new rôle as Senior Lecturer in Creative Technology, I
brought to the Royal Academy of Music a web-based project called
the RAMline, and in late 2006 - with funding from HEIF3 and the
University of London's Centre for Distance Education - we began
to build it. The RAMline is a unique index of digitized archives
and online resources, together with a specialized tool that will
allow this index to be browsed and searched intuitively by
students, staff and visitors. As well as an ever-expanding
catalogue of musicians and of musical works, the RAMline links to
manuscript sources and published editions, live performances and
recordings, musical criticism and comment. The RAMline
simultaneously displays a timeline of musical history and the
life-cycle of any piece of music, from antiquity to the present,
and will be used to chart each student's musical profile at the
Academy and beyond. In March 2007 the first working model of the
RAMline was made available to Academy staff, and over the coming
months it is projected to grow and grow.
This long-term research project is outlined at: www.cd.tp/RAMline.html
"The full range of more conventional musical activity is all
there, of course, but the Academy is embracing the new technology
and new musical directions to be found in the worlds both of
education and the music profession... the developments at the
Academy are many, and would probably have horrified a lot of its
denizens of 30 years ago." (Classical Music)
www.ram.ac.uk
Antony Pitts
www.tonusperegrinus.co.uk
