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2022 In British Music
This is a summary of the year 2022 in British music. Events * 19 January – English Touring Opera announces that James Conway is to stand down as its artistic director at the close of 2022, and to serve in a part-time capacity in the post for the remainder of the calendar year. * 8 February ** The BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra announces the appointment of Ryan Wigglesworth as its next chief conductor, effective September 2022. ** The 2022 Brit Awards are the first to be held without gender-related categories. ** Adele makes a rare live appearance at the 2022 Brit Awards. * 9 February – The Barbican Centre announces the appointment of Claire Spencer as its first-ever chief executive officer, effective May 2022. * 29 March – Concert for Ukraine, a two-hour fundraising event organised by ITV, Livewire Pictures, Global Radio and the Disasters Emergency Committee, takes place in Birmingham. * 25 April – The Philharmonia Orchestra announces the appointment of ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Music Of The United Kingdom
Throughout the history of the British Isles, the land that is now the United Kingdom has been a major music producer, drawing inspiration from church music and traditional folk music, using instruments from England, Scotland, Northern Ireland, and Wales. Each of the four countries of the United Kingdom has its own diverse and distinctive folk music forms, which flourished until the era of industrialisation when they began to be replaced by new forms of popular music, including music hall and brass bands. Many British musicians have influenced modern music on a global scale, and the UK has one of the world's largest music industry, music industries. English folk music, English, Scottish folk music, Scottish, Irish folk music, Irish, and Welsh folk music as well as other British styles of music heavily influenced Music of the United States, American music such as American folk music, American march music, old-time music, old-time, ragtime, blues, country music, country, and Blue ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
14 May
Events Pre-1600 *1027 – Robert II of France names his son Henry I of France, Henry I as junior King of the Franks. *1097 – The Siege of Nicaea begins during the First Crusade. *1264 – Battle of Lewes: Henry III of England is captured and forced to sign the Mise of Lewes, making Simon de Montfort, 6th Earl of Leicester, Simon de Montfort the effective ruler of England. *1465 – During the 1465 Moroccan revolution which overthrows the Marinid dynasty, the Jewish mellah is attacked by the population of Fez, though the extent of the massacre is debated. *1509 – Battle of Agnadello: In northern Italy, French forces defeat the Republic of Venice. 1601–1900 *1607 – English colonists establish "James Fort", which would become Jamestown, Virginia, the earliest permanent English settlement in the Americas. *1608 – The Protestant Union, a coalition of Protestant Germany, German states, is founded to defend the rights, land and safety of each mem ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Stephen Hough
Sir Stephen Andrew Gill Hough (; born 22 November 1961) is a British-Australian classical pianist, composer and writer. Biography Hough was born in Heswall (then in Cheshire) on the Wirral Peninsula, and grew up in Thelwall, where he began piano lessons at the age of five. His father, who was born in Australia, worked as a technical representative for British Steel Corporation, British Steel before his death at the age of 54. At an early age, Hough was able to memorise approximately 100 nursery rhymes. After much pleading, his parents agreed to buy a second-hand piano for £5 from a local antique shop. At the age of 12 he suffered what he has described as a "mini-nervous breakdown", triggered by a Robbery, mugging incident, which resulted in him taking almost a year off school. Hough studied at Chetham's School of Music, which he later called "not a wonderful place while I was there", and at the Royal Northern College of Music. In 1978, he was a finalist in the BBC Young Musi ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
1 June
Events Pre-1600 *1252 – Alfonso X is proclaimed king of Castile and León. *1298 – Residents of Riga and the Grand Duchy of Lithuania defeat the Livonian Order in the Battle of Turaida. * 1495 – A monk, John Cor, records the first known batch of Scotch whisky. *1533 – Anne Boleyn is crowned Queen of England. *1535 – Combined forces loyal to Charles V attack and expel the Ottomans from Tunis during the Conquest of Tunis. 1601–1900 *1648 – The Roundheads defeat the Cavaliers at the Battle of Maidstone in the Second English Civil War. *1649 – Start of the Sumuroy Revolt: Filipinos in Northern Samar led by Agustin Sumuroy revolt against Spanish colonial authorities. *1670 – In Dover, England, Charles II of England and Louis XIV of France sign the Secret Treaty of Dover, which will force England into the Third Anglo-Dutch War. *1676 – Battle of Öland: allied Danish-Dutch forces defeat the Swedish navy in the Baltic Sea, d ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
31 May
Events Pre-1600 * 455 – Emperor Petronius Maximus is stoned to death by an angry mob while fleeing Rome. * 1215 – Zhongdu (now Beijing), then under the control of the Jurchen ruler Emperor Xuanzong of Jin, is captured by the Mongols under Genghis Khan, ending the Battle of Zhongdu. *1223 – Mongol invasion of the Cumans: Battle of the Kalka River: Mongol armies of Genghis Khan led by Subutai defeat Kievan Rus' and Cumans. *1293 – Mongols depart Java after the failed Mongol invasion against King Kertanegara of Singhasari. * 1578 – King Henry III lays the first stone of the Pont Neuf (''New Bridge''), the oldest bridge of Paris, France. 1601–1900 * 1610 – The pageant '' London's Love to Prince Henry'' on the River Thames celebrates the creation of Prince Henry as Prince of Wales. * 1669 – Citing poor eyesight as a reason, Samuel Pepys records the last event in his diary. *1775 – American Revolution: The Mecklenburg Resol ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Fergus McCreadie
Fergus McCreadie (born 12 July 1997) is a Scottish jazz pianist and composer. His style revolves around a fusion of contemporary jazz with Scottish folk music. He has released four albums as leader of a jazz trio, piano trio and two EPs to date. His third album, ''Forest Floor'', was shortlisted for the 2022 Mercury Prize, and won the Scottish Album of the Year Award and the Scottish Jazz Award for Best Album. Early life Fergus McCreadie was born 12 July 1997 in Jamestown, Easter Ross, Scotland, and grew up in Dollar, Clackmannanshire. McCreadie's first experience playing music was on the bagpipes, though he concedes he "was not good at that at all." He saw a jazz piano performance around age 12, and said it "changed my life. It looked so fun, so free and so creative in the way that everyone interacted with each other." McCreadie's parents paid Pound sterling, £20 for a broken-down piano; however, he mostly practiced with a Yamaha Corporation, Yamaha electric piano through head ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
23 May
Events Pre-1600 *1430 – Joan of Arc is captured at the Siege of Compiègne by troops from the Burgundian faction. * 1498 – Girolamo Savonarola is burned at the stake in Florence, Italy. *1533 – The marriage of King Henry VIII to Catherine of Aragon is declared null and void. *1568 – Dutch rebels led by Louis of Nassau, defeat Jean de Ligne, Duke of Arenberg, and his loyalist troops in the Battle of Heiligerlee, opening the Eighty Years' War. 1601–1900 *1609 – Official ratification of the Second Virginia Charter takes place. *1618 – The Third Defenestration of Prague precipitates the Thirty Years' War. *1706 – John Churchill, 1st Duke of Marlborough, defeats a French army under Marshal François de Neufville, duc de Villeroy at the Battle of Ramillies. *1788 – South Carolina became the eighth state to ratify the United States Constitution. *1793 – Battle of Famars during the Flanders Campaign of the War of the First Coa ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The Wreckers (opera)
''Les naufrageurs'' is a French-language opera in three acts composed by Dame Ethel Smyth to a libretto by Henry Brewster, telling of the plundering of ships by Cornish villagers. Completed in 1904, it was premiered in 1906 in Leipzig in a German translation, with cuts, before being championed by Sir Thomas Beecham and given performances in 1909 in London, now in an English translation as ''The Wreckers'' prepared by the composer herself. ''Les naufrageurs'' was not performed in the language for which its music was composed until 2022, at Glyndebourne and in Berlin. Background Tales of Cornish villagers who on stormy nights lured passing sailing ships onto their rugged coast were commonplace in the nineteenth century. The cargoes they plundered were regarded as legitimate reward for the hardships endured in this isolated and barren part of England. Therefore, when looking for a suitable theme for her third opera, it is little wonder that Smyth's thoughts should turn to this d ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Glyndebourne Festival Opera
Glyndebourne Festival Opera is an annual opera festival held at Glyndebourne, an English country house near Lewes, in East Sussex, England. History Under the supervision of the Christie family, the festival has been held annually since 1934, except in 1941–45 during World War II and 1993 when the theatre was being rebuilt, for a 1994 reopening. Gus Christie, son of Sir George Christie and grandson of festival founder John Christie, became festival chairman in 2000. Since the company's inception, Glyndebourne has been particularly celebrated for its productions of Mozart operas. Recordings of Glyndebourne's past historic Mozart productions have been reissued. Other notable productions included their 1980s production of George Gershwin's ''Porgy and Bess'', directed by Trevor Nunn, and later expanded from the Glyndebourne stage and videotaped in 1993 for television, with Nunn again directing. While Mozart operas have continued to be the mainstay of its repertory, the comp ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
21 May
Events Pre-1600 * 293 – Roman Emperors Diocletian and Maximian appoint Galerius as ''Caesar'' to Diocletian, beginning the period of four rulers known as the Tetrarchy. * 878 – Syracuse, Sicily, is captured by the Muslim Aghlabids after a nine-month siege. * 879 – Pope John VIII gives blessings to Branimir of Croatia and to the Croatian people, considered to be international recognition of the Croatian state. * 996 – Sixteen-year-old Otto III is crowned Holy Roman Emperor. * 1349 – Dušan's Code, the constitution of the Serbian Empire, is enacted by Dušan the Mighty. * 1403 – Henry III of Castile sends Ruy González de Clavijo as ambassador to Timur to discuss the possibility of an alliance between Timur and Castile against the Ottoman Empire. * 1554 – Queen Mary I grants a royal charter to Derby School, as a grammar school for boys in Derby, England. 1601–1900 *1659 – In the Concert of The Hague, the Dutch Republic, the ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Academy Of St Martin In The Fields
The Academy of St Martin in the Fields (ASMF) is an English orchestra, based in London. John Churchill, then Master of Music at the London church of St Martin-in-the-Fields, and Neville Marriner founded the orchestra as "The Academy of St. Martin-in-the-Fields", a small, conductorless string group. The ASMF gave its first concert on 13 November 1959, in the church after which it was named. In 1988, the orchestra dropped the hyphens from its full name. History The initial performances as a string orchestra at St Martin-in-the-Fields played a key role in the revival of Baroque performances in England. The orchestra has since expanded to include winds. It remains flexible in size, changing its make-up to suit its repertoire, which ranges from the Baroque to contemporary works. Neville Marriner continued to perform obbligatos and concertino solos with the orchestra until 1969, and led the orchestra on recordings until the autumn of 1970, when he switched to conducting fro ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
19 May
Events Pre-1600 * 639 – Ashina Jiesheshuai and his tribesmen assaulted Emperor Taizong at Jiucheng Palace. * 715 – Pope Gregory II is elected. * 934 – The Byzantine Empire reconquers Melitene under the leadership of John Kourkouas. * 1051 – Henry I of France marries the Rus' princess, Anne of Kiev. * 1445 – John II of Castile defeats the Infantes of Aragon at the First Battle of Olmedo. * 1499 – Catherine of Aragon is married by proxy to Arthur, Prince of Wales. Catherine is 13 and Arthur is 12. * 1535 – French explorer Jacques Cartier sets sail on his second voyage to North America with three ships, 110 men, and Chief Donnacona's two sons (whom Cartier had kidnapped during his first voyage). *1536 – Anne Boleyn, the second wife of Henry VIII of England, is beheaded for adultery, treason, and incest. * 1542 – The Prome Kingdom falls to the Taungoo Dynasty in present-day Myanmar. 1601–1900 * 1643 – Th ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
