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Letty Stott at Britten Pears Arts Festival of New, Snape Maltings - Credit: Britten Pears Arts From ancient horns to ‘fractured punk’, Britten Pears Arts is offering audiences a lockdown mini-festival of music this weekend. Festival of New is a whirlwind annual showcase of new projects in development, created on residencies at Snape Maltings by musicians representing a large breadth of musical genres. Usually, it takes the form of a live weekend at Snape in September but, because of Covid, this year it will be broadcast online. It takes place on Saturday, February 27 on YouTube Live and tickets are free. ....
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TsukuBlog Some Musings on the History of Japan`s National Foundation Day (Kenkoku Kinenbi, 建国記念日) 11 February, 2021
Before 1872 and the adoption of the Western Gregorian Calendar, the Japanese kept track of the passage of the years in one way – the NENGO system, in which a new ERA (年号) was proclaimed with the accession of each new emperor, with each successive year of rule during that reign numbered, advancing by one on each (Lunar) New Year`s Day (which usually fell in February). In fact, this system is STILL used in everyday Japanese life, with this year being the 3rd year REIWA (零和) – the name of the current NENGO – in addition to it being 2021. ....
Last modified on Fri 19 Feb 2021 16.42 EST Osian Ellis, who has died aged 92, delighted in playing the harp in every available lineup. Among his many fine recordings, his account of Handel’s Harp Concerto directed by Thurston Dart (1959) won a Grand Prix du Disque, and that of Ravel’s Introduction and Allegro with the Melos Ensemble (1962) remains a classic. But he was particularly associated with the music of Benjamin Britten. The composer first heard him in 1959, in a performance of A Ceremony of Carols. When the premiere of Britten’s opera A Midsummer Night’s Dream was performed at his festival in Aldeburgh, Suffolk, the following year, the second harpist baled out, but the day was saved by Osian, who devised a way of playing very nearly all the notes himself. ....