Charles Hazlewood
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Charles Matthew Egerton Hazlewood (born 14 November 1966) is a British conductor
and advocate for broadening access to orchestral music
. Renowned for his widespread presence across the BBC
, he conducts orchestras around the world, making his debut with the Royal Concertgebouw
in Amsterdam and the Orchestra of the Age of Enlightenment
in London. Hazlewood lives on a farm in Somerset
from where he hosts his own music festival "Orchestra in a Field".
School in West Sussex where he was a chorister and organist. He later gained an organ scholarship to Keble College, Oxford
in 1986, graduating in 1989. He made his London debut with his own chamber orchestra EOS in January 1991. Hazlewood's follow-up concert at the Queen Elizabeth Hall
and its controversial presentation caused The Times
reviewer to leave during the interval, exclaiming "I could take no more." Hazlewood has persisted to expose orchestral music to a wider audience, and continued to cause some controversy in the British press.
He was nominated by the BBC in 1995 as the UK's sole representative in the European Broadcasting Union
conducting competition in Lisbon, where he won first prize.
for the first time in 2003, conducting the Orchestra of St. Luke's
. In 2009 he made his debut with the Royal Concertgebouw Orchestra in Amsterdam, the Orchestra of the Age of Enlightenment in London and the Malmo Symphony Orchestra
in Sweden.
From 2005 to 2009 Hazlewood was Principal Guest Conductor of the BBC Concert Orchestra
with whom he has appeared several times at the BBC Proms
in the Royal Albert Hall
in London; in August 2006, he simultaneously presented live from the stage for TV.
Hazlewood is music director of the contemporary music ensemble Excellent Device! (formerly EOS), formed in 1991, and its period instrument sister orchestra, Army of Generals. http://www.armyofgenerals.co.uk/ The latter was formed by Hazlewood to record with him all the music for his BBC films.
Described by the BBC as "passionate about new work", in the past six years he has conducted over 50 world premieres. Known for his eclecticism, he has also initiated several projects which explore common ground between different musical disciplines, such as Urban Classic, which created a new hybrid drawing together 5 Grime MC's and the BBC Concert Orchestra. As well as his Orchestra in a Field festival which showcases orchestral music with a contemporary twist. His interest in a wide variety of musical genes led to The Charles Hazlewood Show on BBC Radio 2
and a place on the judging panel of the popular music industry's creativity awards, the Mercury Music prize
.
in London; for them he conducted amongst others Britten's The Turn of the Screw
(director Elijah Moshinsky), Puccini's Il Trittico
(director Simon Callow
) and Kurt Weill's The Silverlake in a new translation by Rory Bremner
.
In 1999, Hazlewood and his collaborator, Mark Dornford-May
were invited to create a new opera company in Cape Town
. After auditioning in the townships and villages of South Africa, the mostly black lyric-theatre company DDK
(Dimpho Di Kopane - Sotho for “combined talents”) was formed. Of the 40 members, only three had professional training. In January 2001, the company's debut of Bizet's Carmen
opened to damning South African reviews, with one newspaper claiming it was preposterous for black South Africans to perform western opera. The Mysteries, for which Hazlewood devised the score which opened in London in 2003 to critical acclaim. Hazlewood was music director and conductor for the company's film version of Carmen set in a township in South Africa (U-Carmen e-Khayelitsha) which won the 'Golden Bear' award for Best Film at the 2005 Berlin International Film Festival
. Their subsequent film Son of Man
featured a score created by Hazlewood in collaboration with the company.
Hazlewood was Music Director of DDK from 2000 to 2007. With the company he also conceived the music for the shows, Ibali Loo Tsotsi (The Beggar’s Opera); and The Snow Queen, which premiered in New York in 2004.
In 2009, Hazlewood conducted Kurt Weill
's musical drama Lost in the Stars
set in apartheid South Africa at the South Bank Centre
. In December 2009 he also appeared as himself in Sandi Toksvig
's Christmas Cracker alongside comedian Ronnie Corbett
.
He authored and presented How Pop Songs Work (BBC Four
, 2008) and a film with Damon Gough (aka Badly Drawn Boy
) entitled Stripping Pop (BBC Three
, 2003).
His first TV appearance was as music director on Jonathan Miller
's Opera Works (1996).
's Discovering Music.
Hazlewood's eclectic radio show The Charles Hazlewood Show on Radio 2
has won three Sony Awards
. The musical selections are "linked together in surprising and productive new ways, with Mozart, for example, followed by Ivor Cutler, then the Streets, then Handel". Hazlewood has improvised music on the show with guests as diverse as Super Furry Animals
, Scritti Politti
, Billy Bragg
, pianist Joanna MacGregor
and the Guillemots.
.
Hazlewood's flagship project is the music festival "Orchestra in a Field" (formerly "Play the Field") held at his farm near Glastonbury
and launched in 2009. The festival, backed by TV Dragon Deborah Meaden
takes place over the August Bank holiday weekend at his farm in Somerset. The 2009 programme included a version of Holst’s The Planets
where members of Hazlewood’s All Star band, featuring Will Gregory
(Goldfrapp
), Adrian Utley
(Portishead), saxophonists Andy Sheppard
and Jason Yarde, drummer Tony Orrell, keyboardist Graham Fitkin
and harpist Ruth Wall improvised electronic responses to each orchestral planet from a separate stage across the parkland. A recording of this concert was broadcast on BBC Radio 2 on 11 September 2009.
Hazlewood conducted the National Youth Orchestra of Great Britain at the 2007 Glastonbury Festival
, making history in performing the first ever symphony concert on the world-famous Pyramid Stage. The Charles Hazlewood All Stars – an ensemble dedicated to improvisation – was launched at Glastonbury Festival
2008.
in London and modernising many of the satirical songs of the original ballad opera of 1728, written by John Gay
.
Conducting
Conducting is the art of directing a musical performance by way of visible gestures. The primary duties of the conductor are to unify performers, set the tempo, execute clear preparations and beats, and to listen critically and shape the sound of the ensemble...
and advocate for broadening access to orchestral music
Orchestra
An orchestra is a sizable instrumental ensemble that contains sections of string, brass, woodwind, and percussion instruments. The term orchestra derives from the Greek ορχήστρα, the name for the area in front of an ancient Greek stage reserved for the Greek chorus...
. Renowned for his widespread presence across the BBC
BBC
The British Broadcasting Corporation is a British public service broadcaster. Its headquarters is at Broadcasting House in the City of Westminster, London. It is the largest broadcaster in the world, with about 23,000 staff...
, he conducts orchestras around the world, making his debut with the Royal Concertgebouw
Royal Concertgebouw Orchestra
The Royal Concertgebouw Orchestra is a symphony orchestra of the Netherlands, based at the Concertgebouw in Amsterdam. In 1988, Queen Beatrix of the Netherlands conferred the "Royal" title upon the orchestra...
in Amsterdam and the Orchestra of the Age of Enlightenment
Orchestra of the Age of Enlightenment
The Orchestra of the Age of Enlightenment is a British period instrument orchestra. The OAE is a resident orchestra of the Southbank Centre, London, associate orchestra at Glyndebourne Festival Opera and has its headquarters at Kings Place...
in London. Hazlewood lives on a farm in Somerset
Somerset
The ceremonial and non-metropolitan county of Somerset in South West England borders Bristol and Gloucestershire to the north, Wiltshire to the east, Dorset to the south-east, and Devon to the south-west. It is partly bounded to the north and west by the Bristol Channel and the estuary of the...
from where he hosts his own music festival "Orchestra in a Field".
Education and early career
Hazlewood attended Christ's HospitalChrist's Hospital
Christ's Hospital is an English coeducational independent day and boarding school with Royal Charter located in the Sussex countryside just south of Horsham in Horsham District, West Sussex, England...
School in West Sussex where he was a chorister and organist. He later gained an organ scholarship to Keble College, Oxford
Keble College, Oxford
Keble College is one of the constituent colleges of the University of Oxford in England. Its main buildings are on Parks Road, opposite the University Museum and the University Parks. The college is bordered to the north by Keble Road, to the south by Museum Road, and to the west by Blackhall...
in 1986, graduating in 1989. He made his London debut with his own chamber orchestra EOS in January 1991. Hazlewood's follow-up concert at the Queen Elizabeth Hall
Queen Elizabeth Hall
The Queen Elizabeth Hall is a music venue on the South Bank in London, United Kingdom that hosts daily classical, jazz, and avant-garde music and dance performances. The QEH forms part of Southbank Centre arts complex and stands alongside the Royal Festival Hall, which was built for the Festival...
and its controversial presentation caused The Times
The Times
The Times is a British daily national newspaper, first published in London in 1785 under the title The Daily Universal Register . The Times and its sister paper The Sunday Times are published by Times Newspapers Limited, a subsidiary since 1981 of News International...
reviewer to leave during the interval, exclaiming "I could take no more." Hazlewood has persisted to expose orchestral music to a wider audience, and continued to cause some controversy in the British press.
He was nominated by the BBC in 1995 as the UK's sole representative in the European Broadcasting Union
European Broadcasting Union
The European Broadcasting Union is a confederation of 74 broadcasting organisations from 56 countries, and 49 associate broadcasters from a further 25...
conducting competition in Lisbon, where he won first prize.
Conductor
Hazlewood performed at Carnegie HallCarnegie Hall
Carnegie Hall is a concert venue in Midtown Manhattan in New York City, United States, located at 881 Seventh Avenue, occupying the east stretch of Seventh Avenue between West 56th Street and West 57th Street, two blocks south of Central Park....
for the first time in 2003, conducting the Orchestra of St. Luke's
Orchestra of St. Luke's
The Orchestra of St. Luke's is an American chamber orchestra based in New York City.It was founded in the summer of 1979 at the Caramoor International Music Festival in Katonah, New York....
. In 2009 he made his debut with the Royal Concertgebouw Orchestra in Amsterdam, the Orchestra of the Age of Enlightenment in London and the Malmo Symphony Orchestra
Malmö Symphony Orchestra
The Malmö Symphony Orchestra is a Swedish orchestra, based in Malmö. Since 1985, the orchestra has given its main concert series in the Konserthuset, Malmö. The orchestra has a current complement of 94 musicians...
in Sweden.
From 2005 to 2009 Hazlewood was Principal Guest Conductor of the BBC Concert Orchestra
BBC Concert Orchestra
The BBC Concert Orchestra is a British orchestra based in London, one of the British Broadcasting Corporation's five radio orchestras. With around fifty players, it is the only one of the five which is not a full-scale symphony orchestra....
with whom he has appeared several times at the BBC Proms
The Proms
The Proms, more formally known as The BBC Proms, or The Henry Wood Promenade Concerts presented by the BBC, is an eight-week summer season of daily orchestral classical music concerts and other events held annually, predominantly in the Royal Albert Hall in London...
in the Royal Albert Hall
Royal Albert Hall
The Royal Albert Hall is a concert hall situated on the northern edge of the South Kensington area, in the City of Westminster, London, England, best known for holding the annual summer Proms concerts since 1941....
in London; in August 2006, he simultaneously presented live from the stage for TV.
Hazlewood is music director of the contemporary music ensemble Excellent Device! (formerly EOS), formed in 1991, and its period instrument sister orchestra, Army of Generals. http://www.armyofgenerals.co.uk/ The latter was formed by Hazlewood to record with him all the music for his BBC films.
Described by the BBC as "passionate about new work", in the past six years he has conducted over 50 world premieres. Known for his eclecticism, he has also initiated several projects which explore common ground between different musical disciplines, such as Urban Classic, which created a new hybrid drawing together 5 Grime MC's and the BBC Concert Orchestra. As well as his Orchestra in a Field festival which showcases orchestral music with a contemporary twist. His interest in a wide variety of musical genes led to The Charles Hazlewood Show on BBC Radio 2
BBC Radio 2
BBC Radio 2 is one of the BBC's national radio stations and the most popular station in the United Kingdom. Much of its daytime playlist-based programming is best described as Adult Contemporary or AOR, although the station is also noted for its specialist broadcasting of other musical genres...
and a place on the judging panel of the popular music industry's creativity awards, the Mercury Music prize
Mercury Prize
The Mercury Prize, formerly called the Mercury Music Prize and currently known as the Barclaycard Mercury Prize for sponsorship reasons, is an annual music prize awarded for the best album from the United Kingdom and Ireland. It was established by the British Phonographic Industry and British...
.
Music Director
Between 1995 and 2003 Hazlewood was Music Director of Broomhill Opera and Wilton's Music HallWilton's Music Hall
Wilton's Music Hall is a grade II* listed building, built as a music hall and now a more general-purpose performance space in Grace's Alley, off Cable Street in the London Borough of Tower Hamlets...
in London; for them he conducted amongst others Britten's The Turn of the Screw
The Turn of the Screw (opera)
The Turn of the Screw is a 20th century English chamber opera composed by Benjamin Britten with a libretto by Myfanwy Piper, "wife of the artist John Piper, who had been a friend of the composer since 1935 and had provided designs for several of the operas". The libretto is based on the novella...
(director Elijah Moshinsky), Puccini's Il Trittico
Il trittico
Il trittico is the title of a collection of three one-act operas, Il tabarro, Suor Angelica, and Gianni Schicchi, by Giacomo Puccini...
(director Simon Callow
Simon Callow
Simon Phillip Hugh Callow, CBE is an English actor, writer and theatre director. He is also currently a judge on Popstar to Operastar.-Early years:...
) and Kurt Weill's The Silverlake in a new translation by Rory Bremner
Rory Bremner
Roderick "Rory" Keith Ogilvy Bremner, FKC is a Scottish impressionist, playwright and comedian, noted for his work in political satire...
.
In 1999, Hazlewood and his collaborator, Mark Dornford-May
Mark Dornford-May
Mark Dornford-May is a British-born South African theatre and film director.-Early life:Mark Dornford-May was born on his Grandfathers farm near Eastoft in Yorkshire. His paternal Grandfather was a miner on the Yorkshire coalfields...
were invited to create a new opera company in Cape Town
Cape Town
Cape Town is the second-most populous city in South Africa, and the provincial capital and primate city of the Western Cape. As the seat of the National Parliament, it is also the legislative capital of the country. It forms part of the City of Cape Town metropolitan municipality...
. After auditioning in the townships and villages of South Africa, the mostly black lyric-theatre company DDK
Dimpho di Kopane
Dimpho di Kopane is a South African theatre cooperative. The company started in 2000 and currently has 32 members. It has risen to prominence in South Africa after a successful stage rendition of Bizet's Carmen which then went on to tour to the US, Australia, Canada, Turkey and the UK...
(Dimpho Di Kopane - Sotho for “combined talents”) was formed. Of the 40 members, only three had professional training. In January 2001, the company's debut of Bizet's Carmen
Carmen
Carmen is a French opéra comique by Georges Bizet. The libretto is by Henri Meilhac and Ludovic Halévy, based on the novella of the same title by Prosper Mérimée, first published in 1845, itself possibly influenced by the narrative poem The Gypsies by Alexander Pushkin...
opened to damning South African reviews, with one newspaper claiming it was preposterous for black South Africans to perform western opera. The Mysteries, for which Hazlewood devised the score which opened in London in 2003 to critical acclaim. Hazlewood was music director and conductor for the company's film version of Carmen set in a township in South Africa (U-Carmen e-Khayelitsha) which won the 'Golden Bear' award for Best Film at the 2005 Berlin International Film Festival
Berlin International Film Festival
The Berlin International Film Festival , also called the Berlinale, is one of the world's leading film festivals and most reputable media events. It is held in Berlin, Germany. Founded in West Berlin in 1951, the festival has been celebrated annually in February since 1978...
. Their subsequent film Son of Man
Son of Man (film)
Son of Man is a 2005 movie directed by South African director Mark Dornford-May. It was the first South African movie to make its debut at Sundance Film Festival.-Plot:...
featured a score created by Hazlewood in collaboration with the company.
Hazlewood was Music Director of DDK from 2000 to 2007. With the company he also conceived the music for the shows, Ibali Loo Tsotsi (The Beggar’s Opera); and The Snow Queen, which premiered in New York in 2004.
In 2009, Hazlewood conducted Kurt Weill
Kurt Weill
Kurt Julian Weill was a German-Jewish composer, active from the 1920s, and in his later years in the United States. He was a leading composer for the stage who was best known for his fruitful collaborations with Bertolt Brecht...
's musical drama Lost in the Stars
Lost in the Stars
Lost in the Stars is a musical with book and lyrics by Maxwell Anderson and music by Kurt Weill, based on the novel Cry, the Beloved Country by Alan Paton...
set in apartheid South Africa at the South Bank Centre
South Bank Centre
Southbank Centre is a complex of artistic venues in London, UK, on the South Bank of the River Thames between County Hall and Waterloo Bridge. It comprises three main buildings , and is Europe’s largest centre for the arts. It attracts more than three million visitors annually...
. In December 2009 he also appeared as himself in Sandi Toksvig
Sandi Toksvig
Sandra Brigitte “Sandi” Toksvig is a Danish comedian, author and presenter on British radio and television.-Career:...
's Christmas Cracker alongside comedian Ronnie Corbett
Ronnie Corbett
Ronald Balfour "Ronnie" Corbett, OBE is a Scottish actor and comedian of Scottish and English parentage who had a long association with Ronnie Barker in the British television comedy series The Two Ronnies...
.
Television
Hazlewood's style as a communicator, described as engaging and enthusiastic, has made him a regular face on British television. He has authored and conducted the music in landmark BBC films on Mozart, Beethoven, Tchaikovsky, and most recently a series exploring the birth of British music. He also appeared on the judging panel for the reality show Classical Star (BBC2 2007) and has anchored the BBC Proms TV coverage since 2001.He authored and presented How Pop Songs Work (BBC Four
BBC Four
BBC Four is a British television network operated by the British Broadcasting Corporation and available to digital television viewers on Freeview, IPTV, satellite and cable....
, 2008) and a film with Damon Gough (aka Badly Drawn Boy
Badly Drawn Boy
Damon Gough is an English alternative music singer/songwriter. He was born on 2 October 1969, in Dunstable, Bedfordshire. He grew up in the Breightmet area of Bolton, Lancashire, England....
) entitled Stripping Pop (BBC Three
BBC Three
BBC Three is a television network from the BBC broadcasting via digital cable, terrestrial, IPTV and satellite platforms. The channel's target audience includes those in the 16-34 year old age group, and has the purpose of providing "innovative" content to younger audiences, focusing on new talent...
, 2003).
His first TV appearance was as music director on Jonathan Miller
Jonathan Miller
Sir Jonathan Wolfe Miller CBE is a British theatre and opera director, author, physician, television presenter, humorist and sculptor. Trained as a physician in the late 1950s, he first came to prominence in the 1960s with his role in the comedy revue Beyond the Fringe with fellow writers and...
's Opera Works (1996).
Radio
Charles Hazlewood regularly performs and delivers musical analyses with the BBC orchestras for Radio 3BBC Radio 3
BBC Radio 3 is a national radio station operated by the BBC within the United Kingdom. Its output centres on classical music and opera, but jazz, world music, drama, culture and the arts also feature. The station is the world’s most significant commissioner of new music, and its New Generation...
's Discovering Music.
Hazlewood's eclectic radio show The Charles Hazlewood Show on Radio 2
BBC Radio 2
BBC Radio 2 is one of the BBC's national radio stations and the most popular station in the United Kingdom. Much of its daytime playlist-based programming is best described as Adult Contemporary or AOR, although the station is also noted for its specialist broadcasting of other musical genres...
has won three Sony Awards
Sony Radio Academy Awards
The Sony Radio Academy Awards , started in 1983, are some of the most prestigious awards in the British radio industry. They are run by ZAFER Associates in association with the Radio Academy...
. The musical selections are "linked together in surprising and productive new ways, with Mozart, for example, followed by Ivor Cutler, then the Streets, then Handel". Hazlewood has improvised music on the show with guests as diverse as Super Furry Animals
Super Furry Animals
Super Furry Animals are a Welsh rock band that lean towards psychedelic rock and electronic experimentation. Since their formation in Cardiff, Wales in 1993, the band has consisted of Gruff Rhys , Huw Bunford , Guto Pryce , Cian Ciaran and Dafydd Ieuan Super Furry Animals are a Welsh rock band...
, Scritti Politti
Scritti Politti
Scritti Politti are a British band, originally formed in 1977 in Leeds, Yorkshire, England. Although there have been various changes to the line-up, Cardiff-born singer-songwriter Green Gartside was the founding member of the band and the only member to have remained throughout the group's...
, Billy Bragg
Billy Bragg
Stephen William Bragg , better known as Billy Bragg, is an English alternative rock musician and left-wing activist. His music blends elements of folk music, punk rock and protest songs, and his lyrics mostly deal with political or romantic themes...
, pianist Joanna MacGregor
Joanna MacGregor
Joanna MacGregor is a classical, jazz and contemporary pianist.-Biography:MacGregor grew up in North London, and was educated at home by her Seventh-day Adventist parents until she attended South Hampstead High School at the age of 11. Her mother is a piano teacher who studied at the Royal...
and the Guillemots.
Music in Somerset
After adopting Somerset as his home, Hazlewood has been critical at the lack of professional orchestral performance in the county. He regularly involves local schoolchildren in his projects, holds regular workshops, advises young musicians, conducts amateur orchestras in the county, plays the organ in local churches and recently conducted at the re-opening of Bristol's Colston HallColston Hall
The Colston Hall is a concert hall and grade II listed building situated on Colston Street, Bristol, England. A popular venue catering for a variety of different entertainers, it seats approximately 2,075 and provides licensed bars, a café and restaurant....
.
Hazlewood's flagship project is the music festival "Orchestra in a Field" (formerly "Play the Field") held at his farm near Glastonbury
Glastonbury
Glastonbury is a small town in Somerset, England, situated at a dry point on the low lying Somerset Levels, south of Bristol. The town, which is in the Mendip district, had a population of 8,784 in the 2001 census...
and launched in 2009. The festival, backed by TV Dragon Deborah Meaden
Deborah Meaden
Deborah Meaden is a British business woman who ran a multi-million pound family holiday business, before completing a management buyout...
takes place over the August Bank holiday weekend at his farm in Somerset. The 2009 programme included a version of Holst’s The Planets
The Planets
The Planets, Op. 32, is a seven-movement orchestral suite by the English composer Gustav Holst, written between 1914 and 1916. Each movement of the suite is named after a planet of the Solar System and its corresponding astrological character as defined by Holst...
where members of Hazlewood’s All Star band, featuring Will Gregory
Will Gregory
William Owen Gregory is best known as a songwriter, and the lead keyboards/synthesizer player & producer of the electronic music group Goldfrapp. Originally a classical music student at the University of York, Gregory is the son of an actress and an opera chorus-line singer...
(Goldfrapp
Goldfrapp
Goldfrapp are an English electronic music duo, formed in 1999 in London, England, that consists of Alison Goldfrapp and Will Gregory ....
), Adrian Utley
Adrian Utley
Adrian Francis Utley is an English musician and a member of the band Portishead.-Biography:Utley is self-taught on guitar, bass and keyboards, and played professionally from the age of 18 in working men's clubs, night clubs, holiday camps, and in cabaret, backing soul artists...
(Portishead), saxophonists Andy Sheppard
Andy Sheppard
Andy Sheppard is a British jazz saxophonist and composer. He has been awarded several prizes at the British Jazz Awards, and has worked with some notable figures in contemporary jazz, including Gil Evans, Carla Bley, George Russell and Steve Swallow.-Biography:Sheppard was born in Warminster,...
and Jason Yarde, drummer Tony Orrell, keyboardist Graham Fitkin
Graham Fitkin
Graham Fitkin is a British composer, pianist and conductor. His compositions fall broadly into the minimalist and postminimalist genres...
and harpist Ruth Wall improvised electronic responses to each orchestral planet from a separate stage across the parkland. A recording of this concert was broadcast on BBC Radio 2 on 11 September 2009.
Hazlewood conducted the National Youth Orchestra of Great Britain at the 2007 Glastonbury Festival
Glastonbury Festival
The Glastonbury Festival of Contemporary Performing Arts, commonly abbreviated to Glastonbury or even Glasto, is a performing arts festival that takes place near Pilton, Somerset, England, best known for its contemporary music, but also for dance, comedy, theatre, circus, cabaret and other arts.The...
, making history in performing the first ever symphony concert on the world-famous Pyramid Stage. The Charles Hazlewood All Stars – an ensemble dedicated to improvisation – was launched at Glastonbury Festival
Glastonbury Festival
The Glastonbury Festival of Contemporary Performing Arts, commonly abbreviated to Glastonbury or even Glasto, is a performing arts festival that takes place near Pilton, Somerset, England, best known for its contemporary music, but also for dance, comedy, theatre, circus, cabaret and other arts.The...
2008.
Current projects
In 2010 Hazlewood, members of his All Star band and period instrument orchestra, Army of Generals, launched a project based on music from The Beggar’s Opera, first heard at The RoundhouseThe Roundhouse
The Roundhouse is a Grade II* listed former railway engine shed in Chalk Farm, London, England, which has been converted into a performing arts and concert venue. It was originally built in 1847 as a roundhouse , a circular building containing a railway turntable, but was only used for railway...
in London and modernising many of the satirical songs of the original ballad opera of 1728, written by John Gay
John Gay
John Gay was an English poet and dramatist and member of the Scriblerus Club. He is best remembered for The Beggar's Opera , set to music by Johann Christoph Pepusch...
.
External links
- Charles Hazlewood Official Website
- Orchestra in a Field Official Website
- Biography at his agent's website
- Charles Hazlewood on The Birth of British Music in The Guardian, May 2009
- Charles Hazlewood on Play The Field in The Guardian, August 2009
- Inside Charles Hazlewood's Diary, The Times, August 2009
- Charles Hazlewood and Badly Drawn Boy, Stripping Pop on Tiger Aspect Productions