News
A Buried Flame has been selected for performance by the international jury at the International Society for Contemporary Music's World Music Days in 2012.
A Buried Flame is a choral setting of poems from the volume 'Poems from Guantanamo' ed Marc Falkoff (Indiana University Press, 2007). Further information, including a sample and a preview article by David Wordsworth, here.
The Israel Contemporary Players, conducted by Ilan Volkov, are to perform Ed's 'Strike' score in concert in Tel Aviv on Saturday 17 December 2011. Hateiva Concert Hall, Tel Aviv.
Oxford Girls' Choir recorded Ascention by Ed - written in memory of priest and scholar David Nicholls.
Oxford Girls' Choir, directed by Penelope Martin-Smith with Richard Vendome (organ), sings "Ascention" (John Donne "Corona" part 7). The recording can be found on youtube:
Ed's original music to Eisenstein's 'Battleship Potemkin' (1925) was featured in sequences from the famous 'Odessa Steps' scenes on the More 4 documentary 'The Story of Film: An Odyssey', broadcast 2100 on Saturday 17 September 2011. See the extract here. Written and directed by Mark Cousins. Hopscotch Films. The complete score by Ed Hughes is still available in DTS and Dolby Digital 5.1 on the Eisenstein Silents' Box Set Vol 1 (Tartan Video, 2007) - second hand copies available via Amazon, or contact Ed directly via the Contact page.
Photoworks have announced the launch of the book documenting the Glyndebourne and Photoworks joint project 'Auditorium' (Sophy Rickett - film; Ed Hughes - music). The book contains colour plates, interviews with the artists and essays by David Chandler and Nicholas Till. It is available here.
This music theatre work is now included in the portfolio of the University of Sussex's Centre for Research in Opera and Music Theatre, here.
Private View for Sophy Rickett's new solo exhibition which features AUDITORIUM in its first London installation. It's on at Brancolini-Grimaldi, 43-44 Albemarle Street, London, W1S 4JJ from 7 July to 27 August 2011.