Kontakion of the Dead

Thoughtfully planned and beautifully sung concert by the Cathedral Consort directed by David McKee in Norwich Cathedral last night. Here is the programme:

Kontakion of the Dead - Traditional Kiev Hymn
Crossing the bar - Hubert Parry
A Prayer of St Thomas Aquinas - David McKee
Elegy (organ solo) - George Thomas Thalben-Ball
The Souls of the Righteous - Geraint Lewis
For the Fallen - Mark Blatchley
Greater Love - John Ireland
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Requiem - Herbert Howells
Sleep - Eric Whitacre

Photo taken by me in Hagia Sophia, Istanbul. See more of that wonderful church, and read about Russian Orthodox music here.
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Artworks on internet radio

This is the sculpture installation Homage to Sir Thomas Browne created by French artists Anne and Patrick Poirier for Norwich city centre which I wrote about here last month. Tomorrow (Aug 10), at 10.00am British Summer Time I'll be talking to the cultural developement officer of Norwich City Council, who commissioned the artwork, on Future Radio.

On Sunday (Aug 12) at 5.00pm I'll be playing William Alwyn's Symphony No, 5 'Hydriotaphia', which is dedicated to Sir Thomas Browne, on my Overgrown Path contemporary classical music programme also on Future Radio.

Both programmes are available as real-time webcasts, click here for the audio stream, see below for more details. This is the future of radio.
Convert on-air times to your local time zone using this link. Windows Media Player doesn't like the stream very much and takes ages to buffer, WinAmp or iTunes handle it best. Unfortunately the royalty license doesn't permit on-demand replay, so you have to listen in real time. If you happen to be in the Norwich, UK area tune to 96.9FM.

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Towards an era of objective art

The photographs here were all taken by me at the 2007 EASTinternational. This is an open submission biennial exhibition held at Norwich Gallery and the Norwich School of Art and Design.


Each EASTinternational is selected by invited curators and artists, and the exhibition has provided a launch pad for many new artists to emerge onto the national and international stage. This year's exhibition is selected by British artist and curator Matthew Higgs and French performance artist Marc Camille Chaimowicz, and shows the work of twenty-seven artists from Europe, North America and Britain.


The main part of the exhibition is presented in Norwich School of Art and Design. This riverside building dates from 1899, and teaching rooms are cleared at the end of the academic year to create the impressive presentation spaces seen in the photos. EASTinternational is part of Contemporary Art Norwich which runs until August 31 2007.

Other Contemporary Art Norwich projects include a new temporary light and sound installation by Simon Fenoulhet at Wymondham Abbey. The ambient sounds are by John Hardy Music, and a microphone in the Abbey's ruined East Tower allows the listeners to interact with the lighting in a similar way to Helen Ottoway's sound installation at last year's Norwich Festival. Full event details from the CAN website.

The curators of this year's EASTinternational provide food for thought when they suggest we are entering a period where history and documentary are replacing art as fiction. Their quote from Eckermann’s Conversations with Goethe applies just as much to contemporary music as it does to the visual arts: “All eras in a state of decline and dissolution are subjective; on the other hand all progressive eras have an objective tendency.”


Take this path to see art in a public space in Norwich, and this one to see performance art in Suffolk.
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