The composer Thea Musgrave CBE has been made an honorary member of the Royal Philharmonic Society in recognition of her excellent companies to music.
The composer was offered along with her RPS honorary membership at her house in New York. The event was filmed, and yow will discover the footage on YouTube:
The RPS first launched its honorary membership in 1826, in search of to recognise ‘those that commit their lives to music and uplifting others with it’. The primary recipient was the composer Carl Maria von Weber.
The roster of subsequent honorary members contains composers similar to Mendelssohn, Berlioz, Liszt, Wagner, Brahms, Verdi, Dvorák and Clara Schumann, in addition to performers (Yehudi Menuhin, Janet Baker, Evelyn Glennie) and conductors (Pierre Boulez, Marin Alsop).
On the presentation, the next quotation was learn by Vanessa Reed, on behalf of the RPS Board and Council:
‘Born in 1928, and nonetheless laborious at work writing music 94 years later, Thea is a musical icon. Over a outstanding worldwide profession, Thea has created a physique of labor bursting with power, able to leap off the web page and seize our creativeness.
‘Her music abounds with such fashion and class, always asking contemporary and daring questions of musical kinds and traditions. She lures us in by suffusing her music with a lot of the world we all know, drawing specifically on work, poems, myths and her Scottish heritage as the place to begin for thus a lot of her musical voyages.’
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Born in Scotland, Thea Musgrave studied on the College of Edinburgh and the Paris Conservatoire underneath Nadia Boulanger. She later studied underneath Aaron Copland on the Boston Symphony Orchestra’s Tanglewood Music Heart.
Over seven many years of composing, Musgrave has produced works for numerous BBC choirs and orchestras, in addition to for the Royal Scottish Nationwide Orchestra, Scottish Chamber Orchestra, Metropolis of Birmingham Symphony Orchestra and others.
Notable works embrace her Concerto for Orchestra (1967), House Play (1974), the opera Mary, Queen of Scots (1977), and Songs for a Winter’s Night (1995).
Oboists, specifically, have Musgrave to thank for a variety of latest work. Her lengthy friendship with the oboist Nicholas Daniel has resulted in a big physique of recent works for that instrument.
Thea Musgrave has additionally acquired a number of fellowships, awards and honours, together with IVORs Award, a CBE (2002) and the Queen’s Medal for Music.
