New Music 20x12 – Commissions Announced:
20 new works celebrate the talent and imagination of UK’s musical community as part of the London 2012 Cultural Olympiad.....
New Music 20x12 is a UK-wide commissioning programme initiated by Jillian Barker and David Cohen, and delivered by PRS for Music Foundation in partnership with BBC Radio 3, London 2012 and NMC Recordings. See www.prsformusicfoundation.com for more information.
An Tobar, the Tobermory Arts Centre, is a participant of New Music 20x12. We will be working with one of Scotland's foremost musicians, Aidan O'Rourke (Lau, Blazin' Fiddles), who will be composing a new piece called TAT-1, inspired by the first transatlantic telephone cable which ran from Oban, Aidan's home town, to Newfoundland. For many years this cable carried the "Hotline" between Washington and Moscow.
The modern Olympics is made possible by our complex communications systems and many of the audience for this sporting event will be following the action virtually, either Online or by TV or Radio. In the first half of the last century this would have been impossible but we now take this kind of sophisticated communication for granted. This project will celebrate that early step in bringing the world together as well as putting Argyll on the international stage at a time when the world is looking towards the UK. Performance date is the 8th June.
PRS for Music Foundation’s New Music 20x12 is a UK-wide commissioning programme initiated by Jillian Barker and David Cohen, and delivered in partnership with the BBC, LOCOG and NMC Recordings.
New Music 20x12 is generously supported by the following committed patrons and funders: Arts Council England, Creative Scotland, John S. Cohen Foundation, PRS for Music Foundation, Arts Council of Northern Ireland, Arts Council of Wales, Columbia Foundation Fund of the Capital Community Foundation, Incorporated Society of Musicians, Musicians Benevolent Fund, Jerwood Charitable Foundation, RVW Trust, Charlotte and Dennis Stevenson, Tolkien Trust, The Leche Trust, The Bliss Trust, Finzi Trust, The Worshipful Company of Musicians, Lilian Slowe, John and Ann Tusa, John Wates Charitable Trust, Richard Walduck, Honeymead Arts Trust, and Sir Anthony Cleaver.
Click here for a link to the online programme here
