Events at the Martin Harris Centre for Music and Drama
02 Mar 2011
Celebrate World Book Night (4 March) * MANTIS Sonic Meta-ontology (5-6 March) * Free lunchtime concert by Quatuor Danel (10 March)
Celebrate World Book Night: RNCM Wind Collective
Friday 4 March 2011, 7.30pm
Tickets: £6/£5/£3
Join us at The Martin Harris Centre on Friday 4 March for a celebration of Literature and Music.
The Royal Northern College of Music Wind Collective will perform two exceptional pieces of music which were both influenced by literary sources; Professor Philip Grange’s Cloud Atlas and Professor John Casken’s Distant Variations.
Grange’s work is based on David Mitchell’s eponymous novel Cloud Atlas. It premiered at the Cheltenham Festival in 2009 and recently won the prestigious Wind Band/Brass Band category at the British Composer Awards 2010.
World Book Night is a UK-wide celebration of books and reading happening on 5 March 2011, two days after World Book Day. Volunteers from World Book Night are pleased to attend The Martin Harris Centre as a prelude to the national event and will be giving out free copies of David Mitchell’s Cloud Atlas to those attending the concert on a first come, first served basis.
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For tickets:
- Contact Box Office on tel: 0161 275 8951 or email boxoffice@manchester.ac.uk
or - Book online at Quaytickets
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MANTIS COMES OF AGE: 15th EDITION OF THE MANTIS FESTIVAL
MANTIS Sonic Meta-ontology: 5-6 March 2011 and 10-12 June 2011
This series of events encapsulates a number or newly created compositions, sonic events and ambisonics field recording trips across the City of Manchester and the North West.
The project will be showcased in two parts (5-6 March 2011 and 10-12 June 2011) in the form of concert events and experimental laboratories at The University of Manchester. It will also have alternative outcomes in other venues in town.
'Manchester's Sonic Meta-ontology' will explore whether there is really such thing as a 'Manchester sound' and if so, what is it, can we experience it, and can we understand it? Substantive empirical investigation will be in partnership will local agents and artists in the region, which will look into the creation, identity, and survival of the real truth of Manchester's Sound.
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Thursday 10 March 2011, 1.10pm
The Cosmo Rodewald Concert Hall
Free lunchtime concert: Quatuor Danel With Oliver Triendl (piano)
- Enesco Concertstück
- Richard Whalley Ad infinitum
- Milhaud La creation du monde
A luxuriantly romantic viola/piano duo, followed by the solo violin suggestions of infinity from the University’s Richard Whalley, and a slimline version of one of the catchiest crossover scores from the Parisian 1920s.
No need to book, just turn up.
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