David Owen Norris is unsurpassed as a musical communicator. His analysis of Sir Hubert Parry’s song Jerusalem, for instance, in the Prince of Wales’s programme on the composer, drew forth ecstatic reviews.
Click here for full details of the following presentations:
• Parrots & Nightingales: the Limits of Notation
• The Severity of Time: a Lost Tradition
• The Real Thing? Questions of Authenticity (BBC2TV 1990)
Click here for full details of the Pre-Raphaelite Song Project.
Lecture-recitals of general interest to musicians and non-specialists alike
Through the Looking-Glass – A Theory of Performance
What’s the Point of Classical Music?
David Owen Norris often gives tailor-made presentations: What’s the Point of Classical Music? for the Swaledale Festival; Building Jerusalem at Parry’s family home, Highnam Court.
Some other notable highlights: his film on Elgar’s Enigma Variations on the LSO website, and two podcasts on Haydn’s String Quartets for Wigmore Hall, and A Beginner’s Guide to Classical Music for the Royal Philharmonic Society and the South Bank.