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Projects | Michael Blake
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South African new music composer and performer. The Bow Project was launched in 2002 by Michael Blake as a project of NewMusicSA. Rsquo;s annual New Music Indaba at the National Arts Festival, Grahamstown. The original artistic objective of the project was to encourage South African composers to engage with traditional music as a compositional resource. Site by Albert Sapsford.
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Resources | Michael Blake
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South African new music composer and performer. Articles by Michael Blake. Articles on Michael Blake’s Music. Site by Albert Sapsford.
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News | Michael Blake
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South African new music composer and performer. Michael Blake in Conversation with Michael Finnissy. Raquo; Thursday 5 May 2016, 14h00. Colloquium: Michael Blake (Africa Open, Stellenbosch University). Raquo; Wednesday 4 May 2016, 17h00. Composing in South Africa Today: Business as Usual? Composers Workshop: Michael Blake. Raquo; Tuesday 3 May 2016. Michael Blake's FRENCH SUITE is 21 Years Old. Submitted by Michael Blake on November 12, 2015 - 16:11. Calendar 2016 – 2017. À b (2016) for solo piano. Leaf ...
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Biography | Michael Blake
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South African new music composer and performer. Alternative shorter version, PDF format:. Michael Blake — Short Biography. Summer 2009). Famous (or unknown) to whom? And influential and perhaps even infamous to whom? It was the former quality that enabled colleague Grant Olwage to single Blake out as one of the ideas-men of the South African music scene (in the Preface to the book Composing Apartheid. 1986) and French Suite. 1994) Martin Scherzinger, in the Cambridge History of Twentieth-century Music.
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Tombeau de Mosoeu Moerane | Michael Blake
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South African new music composer and performer. Tombeau de Mosoeu Moerane. Tombeau de Mosoeu Moerane (2011). For soprano birbyne and 5-track (or 2-track) tape. Written for Darius Klysis. Tape made at Alpha Studio, Visby, Sweden. First performance: Tuesday 29 September 2015. Mdash; performance details. Tombeau de Mosoeu Moerane. The work was requested by birbyne player Darius Klysis, who I first met in 2008 in Cuba when we both performed at ‘Spring in Havana’. The five-track tape was creat...Was one of th...
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Trends in Open Source - developed.be
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Developed.be, my IT-blog. Trends in Open Source. Trends in Open Source. February 15th, 2014. These are some wild thoughts about Open Source, what it is, and what is should be. Open source is the new demo. Companies used to make private software, but now they tend to create more open source. Though the open source product is only maintained by the company and is used as a step-up to the paying version. Open source is company karma. Companies get popular by releasing. I hear you thinking, if private compan...
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Performances | Michael Blake
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South African new music composer and performer. Performances may be sorted by Date. By clicking the relevant heading. Shirley Hoffmann, Michael Blake. Shirley Hoffmann, Michael Blake. Two Centenaries: Canon on Arnold Schönberg's Name and Quodlibet for Charles Ives. Orion Ensemble, Michael Blake. Stravinsky Collage, after Larry Scully. Kálmán Richter, Michael Blake. Prelude and Fugue in B-flat minor BWV867 (from The 48, Book 1). Moonchild, Michael Blake. Moonchild, Michael Blake. Spring in New X.
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Performing | Michael Blake
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South African new music composer and performer. Michael Blake took piano lessons from the age of 9 at the South African College of Music, Cape Town. His teachers included Sheila Rossouw and Ashley Hartley. At Wits University, and subsequently, he studied with Adolph Hallis, a former pupil of Leschetitzky. In Europe he attended masterclasses with Aloys Kontarsky and Charles Rosen, and at various time had lessons with Katarina Wolpe and John Tilbury. As well as playing keyboard in his own new music groups ...
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Works | Michael Blake
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South African new music composer and performer. Any number of players. Two or more pianos. Organ and other keyboard works. Site by Albert Sapsford.
