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Composer Adrian Sutton, the creative force behind the Olivier Award-winning scores for War Horse and The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time, speaks to Jon Jacob, reflecting on his diverse career, spanning from TV advertising to his celebrated work in theatre and concert music. As Sutton prepares for the October 2024 release of his latest album, featuring his Violin Concerto performed by Fenella Humphreys and the BBC Philharmonic, he shares the inspirations and challenges behind his compositions. The episode also touches on his resilience in the face of a stage four cancer diagnosis and his unwavering dedication to his craft.
Jon Jacob speaks to ETO General Director Robin Norton-Hale and members of the cast and production team about the English Touring Opera production of Blond Eckbert that opens the 75th Aldeburgh Festival on 7th June 2024.
Ahead of the world premiere of Matthew Taylor's second horn concerto, Jon Jacob speaks to the composer about his work, his inspiration and the life force of Beethoven.
‘Who, Me' launched in Australia in 2011, and has been a popular hour on the touring circuit since then. It's always nice to have a show that always sells at the Fringe. to go along with your regular set. This is the show that made bank for Rob… and still does. He joins myself and co-host Jon Jacob in the Rose Street Theatre; we broadcast the podcast live in 2017, so everything was one take, get it right, fun and games. So now, ‘vworp vworp' back in time to the Fringe, back to the time as a new companion was announced by the BBC, and a little bit of a doctor who trivia train with Rob Lloyd Always remember: The show is finished, don't try and get tickets- Actually, this time, the show is still out there, so maybe?
This week What's Up Stark is joined by Jon Jacob, the fourth generation Owner and General Manager of Bender's Tavern in downtown Canton. This episode is an inside look at the famous restaurant that started in 1902.Interested in cooking at home with the freshest seafood and beef from Bender's Tavern? You can actually buy the provisions at cantonprovisions.com.
Released on Friday 6 May, 'Air' features a collection composer Oliver Davis' characteristically uplifting writing performed by the Royal Philharmonic Orchestra, Kerensa Peacock, and Grace Davidson. Jon Jacob speaks to Davis about his dyslexia, his compositional influences, and his commercial writing experience. This podcast was recorded in March 2022 at the Southbank Centre.
Jon Jacob speaks to a selection of Ivors Composer Award Winners from 2021 backstage at the ceremony in the British Museum.
Jon Jacob Morgan was 22 years old at the time he went missing on March 6, 2020. What happened to him and could his case possibly be tied to another man that was found dead? Join us as we cover the case! --- Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/forgottenfridays/support
Composer Mark-Anthony Turnage has written a Concertino for clarinettist John Carnac. It will be performed at Music@Malling in Kent in late September by clarinettist John Carnac. Jon Jacob spoke to composer and performer about the work at rehearsals in Birmingham.
Live Music Now is one of the UK's biggest musical charities working specifically within the health and wellbeing arena, delivering inspirational musical moments. Jon Jacob visited the Priscilla Wakefield House in North London where folk singer Zoe Wren entertained dementia home residents one warm afternoon in late June 2021.
Francisca Fullana's new album on Orchid Classics reflects the effervescent energy the violinist brings to his interview responses. Jon Jacob speaks to Francisco about 'Bach's Long Shadow' from his current home in California. Buy 'Bach's Long Shadow' via Presto Classical. https://www.prestomusic.com/classical/products/8907184--bachs-long-shadow-the-chaconne-files
Beat The Peak, peak demand, peak hours... what does it mean and why is your utility provider asking you to use less electricity? Manager of Energy Solutions, Jon Jacob, joins the podcast to discuss Beat The Peak and the benefits for the cooperative and its members.
In this podcast Camilla King Head of Programming at Cheltenham and Jon Jacob talk about an arts administrators response to furlough, the sense of loss she experienced when her work was lost to the pandemic, logistics and especially about planning for different scenarios. The industry is fragile. And it depends on people like Camilla as much as the musicians themselves to get it back on its feet. It’s not an easy job.For more information on Cheltenham Music Festival 2021 events, visit https://www.cheltenhamfestivals.com/music/
Composer, arranger and pianist Iain Farrington's new album of Gershwin tunes is out on the SOMM label on 16th April 2021. In this podcast Farrington talks to Jon Jacob about his transcribing, his work as a musician, and how the BBC Proms 2020 season opener came to be. Buy the album https://newalbm.link/gershwinicity/
Energy Solutions Manager, Jon Jacob, breaks down the steps that'll help reduce your energy usage and keep your bill lower during the coldest time of year.
Jon Jacob speaks to John Rutter, Bryn and Marios Papadopoulos MBE at a recording for the Oxford Philharmonic's digital Christmas concert dedicated to scientists who have discovered the Oxford AstraZeneca vaccine. The concert features the premiere of John Rutter's new carol 'Joseph Carol' and is available on the Oxford Philharmonic's YouTube and Facebook pages from 18th December.
Jon Jacob talks to composer and clarinettist Mark Simpson about a new release on the Orchid Classics label pairing Simpson's Geysir with Mozart's Gran Partita. Full credits via the Orchid Classics website. https://www.orchidclassics.com/releases/orc100150-mark-simpson/
In the week that industry magazine Classical Music shifts to online, Jon Jacob speaks to its editor Lucy Thraves. Visit Classical Music online at https://www.classical-music.uk.
Jon Jacob talks to BBC Symphony Orchestra Principal Contrabassoonist Steve Magee about his lockdown arrangement of Eric Coates' classic wartime morale-boosting tune 'Calling All Workers'. Watch the video here https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jtxcSUNlKCw
Jon Jacob speaks to Richard Heason from St John's Smith Square and Owain Park, director from Gesualdo Six ahead of a test event for socially distanced audiences. Watch the concert here >> https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1TCqKV_aKrk
Ahead of the LPO’s Summer Sessions on YouTube, Jon Jacob visits Henry Wood Hall in London to see how social distancing regulations have impact live music-making.
The first edition of podcast episode 88 was published in error. It was billed as conductor Timothy Henty but ended up being Ron Davis. For some subscribers that means they've missed out on hearing Timothy Henty (because they've unwittingly downloaded the incorrect file). So, the next file will necessarily be a 'repeat' publication of Timothy Henty. Yes. It's confusing. But not half as much as its embarrassing for Jon Jacob.
There's a nasty bug about. A nasty economy-threatening bug that challenging all of us. At times like these we need to draw on the things that matter most: music. Fran Wilson and Jon Jacob talk about their reaction to events and the music that has supported them.
Talking to Jon Jacob about life, computers, the internet, podcasting, and his blogging journey with "Thoroughly Good". You can find Jon at the following locations online: Blog : https://blog.thoroughlygood.me Podcast : https://audioboom.com/channels/4941520 Twitter : https://twitter.com/thoroughlygood Facebook : https://facebook.com/thoroughlygood Instagram : https://instagram.com/thoroughly_good
Recorded at the Khachaturian Cello Competition in Yerevan, Armenia, Jon Jacob speaks to some of the finalists competing for the first prize about the competition experience, the challenges of playing some of the repertoire and their own hopes and aspirations for the future.
Opera Holland Park General Director Michael Volpe and opera-goer Ruth Elleson join Jon Jacob in a discussion about opera appreciation, inspiring the younger generation, ticket prices, and this year's OHP season. Watch Hip Hop to Opera on YouTube here >> https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=coz6CUlXi38
Ahead of Raphael Wallfisch's new season of concerts, Jon Jacob speaks to the cellist about his formative classical music experiences, cellist Zara Nelsova, Jacqueline du Pre, and the music of Ernest Bloch. For regular updates, concert previews, and recording recommendations, support the podcast via https://www.patreon.com/thoroughlygood.
Jon Jacob speaks to composer Jonathan Dove at the Salisbury International Arts Festival about the compositional language he uses in some of his works. An album of orchestral music by Jonathan with the BBC Philharmonic and Timothy Redmond is available on Spotify (https://open.spotify.com/album/0hAp7x316nO4kbjO5lFUnl?si=yeYZx1bjQUOGH7gDE7JmJQ) .
Jon Jacob visits PRS for Music for the Wild Plum Songbook Workshop recently held in London in collaboration with Wild Plum Arts and Cheltenham Music Festival. He speaks to composers workshopping their new works, and Wild Plum Arts Artistic Director and workshop mentor Lucy Schaufer. Composers in order of appearance in the podcast: Ella Jarman-Pinto, Kate Marlais, Rose Miranda Hall, Janet Oates, Lisa Robertson, Sarah Lianne Lewis.
Upon this Handful of Earth received its European premiere at the Church Music Festival in Oslo on Monday 24 March 2019. Jon Jacob speaks to composer and librettists Gisle Kverndokk and Aksel-Otto Bull about the work, the issues it highlights, and the challenges in bringing the conversation about climate change to the operatic form.
Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky is one of Russia’s most iconic cultural figures, but the country still denies he was gay. 125 years after his mysterious death, his magnificent symphonies, operas, and ballets – including all-time classics Swan Lake and The Nutcracker – are still performed, streamed and enjoyed by millions of people around the world.But behind Tchaikovsky’s sumptuous melodies and explosive orchestral climaxes lies the complicated story of a gay man. His sexuality brought him both joy and despair, but it was largely tolerated within Tchaikovsky’s social circles. Now his country outright denies that he was gay, bans so-called ‘gay propaganda’ and continues to torture LGBT+ people in the region of Chechnya.So is now more important celebrate Russia’s rich queer history?Support the Gay Star News #ChechnyaInCrisis appeal here: https://www.gofundme.com/chechnya-crisis-appealListen to Tchaikovsky's Sixth Symphony on Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/album/3vaCn32O9E86DzxSAr2bh5?si=3ocQR1WBRSiSce2_xQN3FgWith thanks to reporter Patrick Reardon-Morgan (@preardonmorgan), the Philharmonia Orchestra in London (@Philharmonia) and executive production from host Jamie Wareham (@jamie_wareham). Check out our guest, Jon Jacob's podcast, Thoroughly Good:https://www.thoroughlygood.me/tag/thoroughly-good-podcast/Subscribe to #QueerAF on Apple Podcasts, Download on Spotify and get us on your favourite podcast app – or listen on your desktop with Acast. See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.
Steve Long, Yehuda Shapiro and Jon Jacob discuss classical music streaming, independent record labels and the opportunity for data-driven marketing of core classical music.
This week on the podcast, we cover the latest ONTAP release and the vision for ONTAP in general with “the ONTAP guy,” Octavian Tanase. We also dive a bit deeper into the features with Jon Jacob and Skip Shapiro!
Recorded during the first Karol Szymanowski Music Competition staged at the NOSPR Concert Hall in Katowice, Poland. Jon Jacob speaks to competitors, and discovers the hall's distinctive acoustic and the appeal of Polish composer Szymanowski's music.
Funded by the Paul Hamlyn Foundation and the Esmee Fairburn Trust, the Philharmonia's award-winning multimedia digital is touring the UK with an exhibition dedicated to Holst's Planet Suite and a virtual reality experience. Jon Jacob meets Events Manager Elizabeth Howard, Director of Residencies Jonathan Mayes, and Audience Development Manager Tom Spurgin at the exhibition's current home in Bedford. For more information on the exhibition visit philharmonia.co.uk/virtualorchestra. Watch a video recording of the unedited discussion on YouTube >> https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=let6I4ZjXvY
Recorded at the Khachaturian Cello Competition in Yerevan, Armenia, Jon Jacob speaks to some of the finalists competing for the first prize about the competition experience, the challenges of playing some of the repertoire and their own hopes and aspirations for the future.
Opera Holland Park General Director Michael Volpe and opera-goer Ruth Elleson join Jon Jacob in a discussion about opera appreciation, inspiring the younger generation, ticket prices, and this year's OHP season. For more information about the 2018 season, visit http://www.operahollandpark.com/2018-season/. Watch Hip Hop to Opera on YouTube here >> https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=coz6CUlXi38 And for the Inside Out character Michael refers to in the podcast, see here >> https://twitter.com/ImIncorrigible/status/1001756462794903552
Recorded at Barbican, Jon Jacob is joined by pianist and composer Andrew James Johnson, and author, coach and art lover Debs Henry-Pollard for a conversation spanning piano lessons, Wagner and the CBSO. Andy's new album Winter's Heart is out now and available via Spotify. Show Notes Breakfast: bacon and spinach Introductions Andy’s CBSO work experience Orchestral manager job interview Marin Alsop’s womens conductors masterclass Audience members with conductors scores How does the music make you feel? Andy’s piano teacher The Tristan chord Budapest Opera Festival Comprehensive vs. Grammar School Andy’s new album: The Winter’s Heart Which composer would you want to have met? What one disc would you fight to keep? Cultural Recommendation: V&A Ocean Liner’s Exhibition Cultural Recommendation: Bluthner Piano Day, 29 March 2018 Andy’s first piano
Recorded at Barbican, Jon Jacob is joined by pianist and composer Andrew James Johnson, and author, coach and art lover Debs Henry-Pollard for a conversation spanning piano lessons, Wagner and the CBSO. Andy's new album Winter's Heart is out now and available via Spotify. **Show Notes** Breakfast: bacon and spinach Introductions Andy’s CBSO work experience Orchestral manager job interview Marin Alsop’s womens conductors masterclass Audience members with conductors scores How does the music make you feel? Andy’s piano teacher The Tristan chord Budapest Opera Festival Comprehensive vs. Grammar School Andy’s new album: The Winter’s Heart Which composer would you want to have met? What one disc would you fight to keep? Cultural Recommendation: V&A Ocean Liner’s Exhibition Cultural Recommendation: Bluthner Piano Day, 29 March 2018 Andy’s first piano
With Carl Donnelly (The Nutter On The Bus), Elaine Dove (Sing In The City), Jon Ivay (Delorean), Chris Hislop & Chloe Mashiter (Adventurers Wanted), and William Hanson & Diane Mather (Much Ado About Everything). Hosted by Ewan Spence, with Jon Jacob.
With Will Seaward, (Spooky Midnight Ghost Stories IV), Mindy Raf (Keeping My Kidneys), Amy Loughton (Cathy), Unpolished Theatre (Flesh and Bone), and Stuart Maconie (Jarrow Road To The Deep South), Hosted by Ewan Spence, with Jon Jacob.
With Dylan Cole (Blank Tiles), Catriona Knox (Adorable Deplorable), Jay Lafferty (Besom), and Donald Shaw (Scotland's Wild Heart). Hosted by Ewan Spence, with Jon Jacob.
Audience behaviours in the concert hall and online can make the concert hall a hostile place. Three accounts help explain why Jon Jacob sometimes feels rather lonely in the classical music world.
During a recent trip to Budapest, Jon Jacob gets to see two operas from Wagner's Ring as part of the annual MUPA Wagner in Budapest Opera Festival. This podcast features material recorded during his visit including an interview with Director Hartmut Schorghofer, plus excerpts from soprano Anna Russell's synopsis of Wagner's Ring recorded in 1953.
This week sees the launch of the 2016/17 season of concerts at St John's Smith Square. To coincide with the launch, Jon Jacob speaks to SJSS Director Richard Heason, and pianist Christina McMaster and conductor Stephen Layton about their musical inspirations and work.
The first in a new series of Thoroughly Good Podcasts, dedicated to classical music. In this episode you'll hear what the series is about, and what it's not about. And you'll hear a story about how Jon Jacob was introduced to an entirely unexpected style of music.
Jon Jacob, a fully paid-up member of Generation Y discovers that one first questions to ask when working out what you want to do next, is to ask what you don't want to do next.
A chance interaction with an old acquaintance prompts an unexpected question: where did Jon Jacob lose sight of the creative headland he was excited to discover ten years ago?
It's Christmas 2015 and Jon Jacob's status as a middle-aged man is final confirmed.
Jon Jacob visits Bulgaria to find out whether Junior Eurovision is all precocious children and over-reaching parents. #JESC #Eurovision
Jon was an active-duty US Army infantryman from 2003 to 2006. A third generation service member, his first tour was in Korea. While there, Jon was part of a historic deployment of an already forward-deployed unit that sent his unit to the Sunni Triangle in September of 2004. They mostly operated in and around the town of Habbaniyah, which was about halfway between Fallujah and Ramadi. Jon is now in Portland, where he lives and works on a small organic farm run by a lesbian couple ... typical Portland.
This week Jamillah chats with the BBC Monitoring section that puts an ear to the world for news and Jon Jacob finds out about hacking in Holland.