MSt tutor Roopa Farooki has been long listed for the Commonword Children’s Diverse Writing Prize, 2016.
Category: Tutor News
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MSt tutor Ben Brown’s play “Three Days in May/3 Dias en Mayo” in Mexico City
MSt tutor Ben Brown’s play 3 Dias En Mayo (Three Days in May) will be performed from 29 July to 25 September 2016 at the Teatro Helenico in Mexico City. -
MSt tutor Anna Beer’s “Sounds and Sweet Airs” a Financial Times “Summer Read”
“Why is it, asks Anna Beer, that male composers have consistently eclipsed their female counterparts? The solution, she admits, is more complicated than simply rewriting music history “on the principle of add women and stir”. In probing deeper, she has given us a compelling account of eight women composers’ lives and the many and various difficulties they encountered.” -
MSt tutor Alice Jolly’s “Dead Babies and Seaside Towns” shortlisted for the Pen / Ackerley Prize 2016
MSt tutor Alice Jolly’s Dead Babies and Seaside Towns has been shortlisted for the Pen / Ackerley Prize 2016 -
MSt tutor Roopa Farooki’s podcast for the Royal Literary fund, on life changing literature
MSt tutor Roopa Farooki’s podcast for the Royal Literary Fund Fellowship, “4 minutes on life changing literature”, is now online.
Listen to it here: “When I finally fell asleep it was to the thundering of hooves”.
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MSt tutor Jenny Lewis wins Goldsmiths’ Warden’s Award for Public Engagement in Doctoral Research
MSt tutor Jenny Lewis has won the Warden’s Award for Public Engagement in Doctoral Research for her work “sharing the findings of research at Goldsmiths with the broadest possible audience and involving a wide range of partners and stakeholders in our research as collaborators and participants” -
MSt tutor Helen Marshall’s novel “Everything that is born” to be published by Random House, Canada
MSt tutor Helen Marshall’s debut novel, Everything that is born, “the story of a girl who, after her younger sister drowns in a terrible storm, is determined to steal the body so she can discover for herself what dying means in a time of extraordinary transformation” is to be published by Random House Canada.
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MSt tutor Anna Beer to give Fulbright Frontier Lecture, “Right Place, Right Time? Women Composers and Their Creative Communities”, 17 May 2016.
MSt tutor Anna Beer will be speaking on Right Place, Right Time? Women Composers and Their Creative Communities
The lecture, a Fulbright Frontiers Lecture, will take place in Rewley House, 1 Wellington Square, Oxford OX1 2JA.
Join Anna and attendees at 5 pm for tea and coffee. The bar will be open after the lecture concludes at 6:30 pm.
Anna’s book, Sounds and Sweet Airs, has been described by The Guardian as ” a timely bulwark against forgetting, and proffers a number of reasons for the fading of female artists’ reputations … This book helps show why a narrative that insists that the good stuff will naturally and always rise to the surface is simplistic. It is important for us all, composers, musicians, audiences, men, women, society at large, that we seek out the best and most exciting creative voices, from wherever they may come”.
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MSt tutor Anna Beer in the Guardian on “The sound of silence: classical music’s forgotten women”
The first ‘opera’ written by a woman … Caccini’s La Liberazione di Ruggiero dall’Isola d’Alcina in Brighton, 2015. Photograph: Robert Piwko/BREMF , published in The Guardian, 2 April 2016. MSt tutor Anna Beer’s article on “Felix Mendelssohn and Robert Schumann are familiar names, but what of Fanny and Clara? Anna Beer on why we should be listening to Caccini and Strozzi as well as Mozart and Beethoven” appeared in The Guardian.
Read the article online: “The sound of silence: classical music’s forgotten women“
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MSt tutor Anna Beer on BBC Radio 6
MSt tutor Anna Beer’s conversation with Jo Frost, about Anna’s new book , Sounds and Sweet Airs, is now available to listen to on Radio 6. More information here, and you can listen to the programme online.
