Thursday, 24 June 2010

Martin Amis on Literature and Violence and LGBT composers

The summer is in full swing and Manchester has some great events in July and August. The Martin Harris Centre at Manchester University has a series of events over the summer months.

Thursday 1st July 2010, 6.30pm
Martin Amis Public Events: Literature and Violence
with guests Blake Morrison and John Gray

World famous novelist Martin Amis will be discussing the relationship between Literature and Violence at his next University of Manchester debate on Thursday 1st July 2010. The writer will be joined by high profile guests Blake Morrison and John Gray for the evening event at the University’s Martin Harris Centre. The event will offer a unique chance to hear Professor Amis and his guests discuss the psychological and cultural roots of violent acts, and consider the ways in which writers from Shakespeare to JG Ballard depict and respond to violence.

Tickets: £7 (£5 concessions)
Tickets are available from the Martin Harris Centre box office on 0161 275 8951 or e-mail boxoffice@manchester.ac.uk. You can also contact Quay Tickets on www.quaytickets.com or 0870 428 0785.

Monday 23rd August 2010 - Friday 27th August 2010, 1pm
Manchester Pride Chamber Music
A series of lunchtime recitals celebrating music by LGBT composers past and present.

Monday 23rd August, 1pm
David Maxwell Anderson (tenor) with Ditlev Rindom (piano)
Tchaikovsky - At the ball / None but the lonely heart / To forget so soon / Mezza notte
Hahn - Chansons en dialecte Vénitien Nos 1, 2, 4
Hahn - L’allée est sans fin / L’heure exquise
Poulenc - Air Champêtre / Air Grave / Voyage à Paris / Hotel
Barber - Mélodies Passagères, Op.27
Tchaikovsky - Rondel / Déception / Again, as before, alone / Don Juan’s Serenade

Tuesday 24th August
, 1pm
"Nocturnes, Ballades & Mazurkas" – a PianoFest, with performances by Alasdair Beatson, Philip Fowke, Ian Jones, Leon McCawley, Ditlev Rindom, Emmanuel Vass and Ashley Wass

Wednesday 25th August, 1pm
Nicholas Daniel (oboe) with David Quigley (piano)
Poulenc - Sonata for oboe & piano
Berkeley - Sonatina for oboe & piano, Op.61
Britten - 6 Metamorphoses after Ovid for solo oboe
Barber - Canzonetta for oboe & piano

Thursday 26th August, 1pm
John Myerscough (cello) with Alasdair Beatson (piano)
Barber - Sonata for cello & piano, Op.6
Henze - Capriccio per Paul Sacher

Friday 27th August
, 1pm
CHROMA: Marcus Barcham-Stevens (violin), Stuart King (clarinet) & Martin Cousin (piano)
Menotti - Trio for clarinet, violin & piano
Rorem - End of Summer
Marc Yeats - schlick's approximation (World Première - Manchester Pride Commission.

The Martin Harris Centre, The University of Manchester, Oxford Road, Manchester, M13 9PL
Tel: 0161 275 8951
www.manchester.ac.uk/martinharriscentre
boxoffice@manchester.ac.uk

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