{"id":2099,"date":"2016-05-11T11:24:11","date_gmt":"2016-05-11T11:24:11","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/smfa-news\/?p=2099"},"modified":"2016-05-11T12:48:05","modified_gmt":"2016-05-11T12:48:05","slug":"orchestral-commission-for-ma-music-student-amy-morgan","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/smfa-news\/2016\/05\/11\/orchestral-commission-for-ma-music-student-amy-morgan\/","title":{"rendered":"Orchestral commission for MA music student Amy Morgan"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_2100\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-2100\" style=\"width: 474px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/smfa-news\/files\/2016\/05\/amypic.jpg\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-2100\"><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"wp-image-2100 size-large\" src=\"http:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/smfa-news\/files\/2016\/05\/amypic-1024x683.jpg\" alt=\"amypic\" width=\"474\" height=\"316\" srcset=\"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/smfa-news\/files\/2016\/05\/amypic-1024x683.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/smfa-news\/files\/2016\/05\/amypic-300x200.jpg 300w, https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/smfa-news\/files\/2016\/05\/amypic-768x512.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 474px) 100vw, 474px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-2100\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Amy Morgan, 2016.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>School of Music and Fine Art MA music student <em>Amy Morgan<\/em> will hear her new work, commissioned by the City of Rochester Symphony Orchestra, performed \u00a0in a concert on <strong>Saturday 28th May 2016 at The Central Theatre, Chatham at 7.30pm.\u00a0 <\/strong>Her piece for the orchestra, called <em>Stranger Things Have Happened<\/em> shares a programme with works by <strong>Rimsky-Korsakov, Prokofiev<\/strong>\u00a0and <strong>Tchaikovsky. <\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Says Amy: <em>\u201cThe commission was facilitated by Duncan MacLeod, who is my Specialist Project supervisor. After getting the idea down on paper, or computer \u2013 and sometimes they are sung \u2013 I then put them onto music software programme Sibelius. The last stage takes the longest as I tweak the ideas to fit the mood of the composition. In Stranger Things Have Happened, I purposely make some parts dissonant and try to make use of a wide range of extended techniques. This is something new for me, as I normally stick within the boundaries of the instruments. The inspiration for this piece comes from retro game music (such as Super Mario), film music (particularly composer John Williams) and rock music. \u00a0The orchestra is really friendly and helpful, and it is even more exciting when I hear the orchestra playing the piece in rehearsals.\u00a0 After my Masters, I hope to continue composing for a wide range of instruments.\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n<p>For tickets, go to:\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/crso.org.uk\/concerts\/\">http:\/\/crso.org.uk\/concerts\/<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp; School of Music and Fine Art MA music student Amy Morgan will hear her new work, commissioned by the City of Rochester Symphony Orchestra, performed \u00a0in a concert on Saturday 28th May 2016 at The Central Theatre, Chatham at 7.30pm.\u00a0 Her piece for the orchestra, called Stranger Things Have Happened shares a programme with &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/smfa-news\/2016\/05\/11\/orchestral-commission-for-ma-music-student-amy-morgan\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Orchestral commission for MA music student Amy Morgan<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":22922,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[807,1252,124],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/smfa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2099"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/smfa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/smfa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/smfa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/22922"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/smfa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2099"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/smfa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2099\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2103,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/smfa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2099\/revisions\/2103"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/smfa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2099"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/smfa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2099"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/smfa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2099"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}