> Trinity College of Music
> Jerwood Library Seminars in the Performing Arts
> Autumn 2004
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> Supported by the Jerwood Charity
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> Trinity College of Music, King Charles Court, Old Royal Naval College, Greenwich, London, SE10 9JF
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> All seminars will take place at 6.15pm in the Peacock Room on the ground floor of the East Wing. They are scheduled to last one hour, followed by fifteen minutes for questions and discussion. Wine will be served at the end.
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> Admission is free.
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> 'Virtual Concerts': the BBC's Transmutation of Public Performances
> Dr Jenny Doctor 
> Tuesday 28 September 2004 6.15pm
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> As we observe the effects of the latest technologies - the internet, interactive digital television - on BBC music broadcasts, our comprehension of what comprises a > '> concert> '>  is constantly redefined. This process occurred no less momentously in the 1920s, with the advent of the BBC itself. Buoyed by its conviction that broadcasting served as > '> the next logical step in the democratisation of music> '> , the BBC adopted the concept and format of > '> concerts> '>  in general, and public concerts in particular, as a conduit for disseminating certain music programmes and signifying their perceived cultural significance.
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> This seminar considers the > '> logic behind> '>  BBC decisions to feature broadcasts of public concerts. As charter renewal approaches and technological, arts funding and political developments threaten not only the purpose and means of broadcasting music but the foundations of the BBC itself, it is instructive to recall the issues that characterized the first assault of technology on > '> established> '>  music practices of the day.
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> The seminar will be illustrated with extracts from broadcast recordings, including some from the Music Preserved collection, which can currently be heard only at the Jerwood Library or the Barbican Library, London.
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> Jenny Doctor> '> s extensive work on the history of BBC music broadcasting has contributed to two books: The BBC and Ultra-Modern Music, 1922-36: Shaping a Nation> '> s Tastes (CUP, 1999) and Humphrey Carpenter> '> s The Envy of the World: Fifty Years of the BBC Third Programme and Radio 3 (Weidenfeld and Nicholson, 1996). She has recently contributed a chapter to The Cambridge Companion to Elgar and is preparing an edition of letters exchanged by British composers Elizabeth Maconchy and Grace Williams. With Nicholas Kenyon and David Wright, she is co-editing a book investigating the social history of the London Promenade Concerts. She is currently a lecturer at Trinity College of Music.
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> From 'Hearts of Oak' to HMS Peculiar: the Royal Navy and the Stage
> (The Third Annual Mander & Mitchenson Theatre Collection Lecture)
> Iain Mackintosh and Mary Jane Walsh
> Tuesday 26 October 2004 6.15pm
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> On 29 November 1758 both the Theatres Royal (Drury Lane and Covent Garden) were dark as a nation celebrated yet another victory over the French. At Drury Lane David Garrick, the great actor manager, was preparing Harlequin's Invasion  - a ridiculous story during which Harlequin is defeated by Shakespeare - with a hit song, 'Hearts of Oak'. The Navy preferred this show stopper to the more ponderous 'Rule Britannia' and Garrick> '> s song was a favourite from Lower to Quarter deck. The audiences at Drury Lane sang it with equal fervour. The indisputable link between the stage and the Royal Navy had been forged.
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> In 1935 Noël Coward presented Tonight at 8.30, in which, as a seedy music hall duo, Coward and Gertrude Lawrence play jolly tars from HMS Peculiar.
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> What came between will be explained in words and music by a double act: Iain Mackintosh, theatre historian and designer of theatre space, and Mary Jane Walsh, for many years in film and television, who now runs a university programme for actors, film makers and writers.
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> Shura Cherkassky Remembered
> Philip Fowke> 
> Tuesday 30 November 2004 6.15pm
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> Shura Cherkassky (1911-1995), born in Odessa, was one of the legendary pianists of his time. A child prodigy, his age was adjusted by his mother to take advantage of his small stature and prodigious talent. It was not until his 80th birthday that he discovered he was 82. In a career spanning seventy years, he developed a reputation for individuality, even eccentricity, but this was allied to rigorous intellectual and personal discipline. This presentation considers both his earlier life and his influences, and endeavours to reveal something of the complexity and contradiction of this great performer.
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> The Shura Cherkassky Collection in the Jerwood Library contains about 300 pieces of printed piano music from Cherkassky's personal music library.
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> Philip Fowke is Senior Fellow of Keyboard at Trinity College of Music. He made his 12th appearance at the Proms last year and in 2005 appears at the Royal Festival Hall on 14 February playing Rachmaninov's Second Piano Concerto. A concert in Belfast on 30 April 2005 will be broadcast on Radio 3. 2005 also marks the 10th anniversary of his arrival at Trinity College of Music as Head of Keyboard. '> ...>  that co-existence of a high musical intellect with elegance, wit and unashamedly joyful showmanship, marks out Philip Fowke among his own generation of pianists > ...>  '.  The Times.
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> The Jerwood Library of the Performing Arts, incorporating the Mander & Mitchenson Theatre Collection, is the working library of Trinity College of Music, and supports learning, teaching, performance and research within the College. It also holds special collections of international significance, which are open for reference to those engaged in research at all levels.
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> The Mander & Mitchenson Theatre Collection is one of the finest collections of theatre memorabilia in the world. Based on the personal collection of two actors, Raymond Mander and Joe Mitchenson, it contains a wide-range of primary sources for the study of theatre history and music in all its connections with the theatre, and also functions as a picture library.
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> Other major collections are the Antonio de Almeida Collection of orchestral and vocal scores, the Sir Frederick Bridge Library of early printed music and books, the British Music Society Archive and the Music Preserved collection of historic live sound recordings, which may only be heard in two centres at present: the Jerwood Library and the Barbican Library.
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> The Jerwood Library also holds autograph manuscripts of the following composers: Richard Arnell, Malcolm Arnold, Stanley Black, Frank Cordell, William Lovelock, Charles Procter, Margaret Purcell, Kaikhosru Shapurji Sorabji, Lionel Tertis, Mike Westbrook and Christopher Wood.
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> The Jerwood Library manages the Centre for Young Musicians Library, which, in addition to sets of orchestral and vocal music available for hire to amateur choirs and orchestras, includes the Alan Cave Collection of wind music. 
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> The bringing together of all these collections in 2001 to form the Jerwood Library of the Performing Arts was enabled by a generous donation from the Jerwood Charitable Foundation, which continues its association with Trinity through its support of the present seminar series. 
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> For further information about access to the Jerwood Library and its holdings, see the Library's website at www.tcm.ac.uk, or contact
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> Rosemary Firman, Chief Librarian
> Jerwood Library of the Performing Arts
> Trinity College of Music
> King Charles Court
> Old Royal Naval College
> Greenwich
> London
> SE10 9JF
> Telephone 020 8305 4425
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