A concert of new works, presented by Professor Tom Phillips, Slade Professor of Fine Art 2005-2006
Wednesday 8th March 2006
The Holywell Music Room, 5.30pm
Admission free
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In 2006 renowned artist, Tom Phillips was invited to be the guest lecturer of the Slade Lecture Series at Oxford University. In what some deemed to be a controversial move, Tom Phillips turned the eighth and final lecture into a concert, reflecting his passion for new music. In the 1970s, Phillips was a member of the Scratch Orchestra at the same time as developing his career as a painter. The event featured 12 new commissions by friends and collaborators, and a piece by Phillips himself. The collection covered a huge range of styles from the simple and immediate Running Away by Brian Eno (which Eno performed with the Composers Ensemble) to Tarik O’Regan’s dramatic excerpts from this new opera based on Conrad’s Heart of Darkness. The concert was a very warm and special occasion and had a 4 star review by critic Andrew Clements in the Guardian.
The eighth and final event of the University of Oxford’s Slade Lecture Series is a concert at the historic Holywell Music Rooms on 8th March 2006. The event wasintroduced by Tom Phillips and featured a staggering number of world premieres based on his texts, including a substantial work by Harrison Birtwistle “Song of Myself” for viola and baritone and other specially commissioned pieces by Michael Nyman, Julian Anderson, John Woolrich, Robert Saxton, Howard Skempton, Joby Talbot, Brian Eno, Robin Holloway, Gerard McBurney and Tarik O’Regan.
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