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First Performances

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  04 February 2010

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Extract

  • Birtwistle's Nomos (Roger Smalley)

  • Williamson's The Growing Castle (Stephen Walsh)

  • Smalley's The Song of the Highest Tower (Tim Souster)

  • Goehr's Naboth's Vineyard (Michael Nyman)

  • Cardew's The Great Digest and Gilbert's Missa Brevis (Justin Connolly)

  • Bennett's Piano Concerto (Norman Kay)

  • Tavener's In Alium and Gerhard's Epithalamion (Anthony Payne)

  • Four Crosse premieres (Stephen Walsh)

Type
First Performances
Information
Tempo , Issue 86 , Autumn 1968 , pp. 7 - 26
Copyright
Copyright © Cambridge University Press 1968

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page 7 note 1 Commissioned by the BBC and first performed at the Promenade Concert at the Albert Hall on 13 August by the BBC Symphony Orchestra conducted by Colin Davis. The music examples are reproduced by permission of Universal Fdition.

page 10 note 1 Commissioned for the Dynevor Centre and first performed there on 13 August by Jennifer Vyvyan, Nancy Evans, Geoffrey Chard, Benjamin Luxon, and the composer, who was also the producer.

page 12 note 1 Commissioned for the City of London Festival and first performed on 11 July at the Mansion House under the direction of John Tobin.

page 14 note 1 Commissioned for the City of London Festival and first performed on 16 July at the Cripplegate Theatre by the Music Theatre Ensemble under the direction of the composer.

page 16 note 1 Both received their first performance in the Macnaghten Concert at the Cheltenham Festival, given in the Town Hall on 9 July by the Louis Halsey Singers, conducted by Louis Halsey, with Michael Chant as organist in the Cardew. This work was commissioned by the Macnaghten Concerts.

page 17 note 1 Commissioned by the Feeney Trust and first performed at the Town Hall, Birmingham on 19 September by Stephen Bishop with City of Birmingham Symphony Orchestra conducted by Hugo Rignold, as part of the bicentenary celebrations of the Birmingham Triennial Musical Festival.

page 21 note 1 Commissioned by the BBC and first performed at the Promenade Concert at the Albert Hall on 12 August by the BBC Symphony Orchestra conducted by David Athcrton, with June Barton as the soprano soloist.

page 22 note 1 This work, written in 1965–66, received its first performance in England on 12 July at the Cheltenham Festival, given in the Town Hall by the BBC Symphony Orchestra conducted by Norman Del Mar.

page 23 note 1 First performed on 16 July at Carpenters’ Hall, by the Academy of St. Martin-in-the-Fields, directed by Neville Marriner.

page 23 note 2 First performed on 3 July in the Town Hall, Cheltenham, by the Budapest Symphony Orchestra, conducted by Gyorgy Lehel.

page 23 note 3 First performed on 17 September at the Philharmonic Hall, Liverpool, by Gerald English, Alan Civil and the Royal Liverpool Philharmonic Orchestra, conducted by Charles Groves.

page 25 note 1 Commissioned for St. Matthew's Church, Northampton, for their 75th Anniversary Festival, and first performed there on 2 0 September.