http://blog.oup.com/2012/07/olympic-music-london-1948-2012/ Academic insights for the thinking world. Wed, 22 May 2013 15:58:47 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.4.2 http://blog.oup.com/2012/07/olympic-music-london-1948-2012/#comment-288979 OUPblog » Blog Archive » Richard Causton, the EUYO, and the Cultural Olympiad Thu, 23 Aug 2012 10:30:15 +0000 http://blog.oup.com/?p=26903#comment-288979 [...] composed the work, which he describes as a Concerto for Orchestra, for the 2012 Cultural Olympiad festivities celebrating the UK, London, and the Olympics. The orchestral work is one of 20 new [...] [...] composed the work, which he describes as a Concerto for Orchestra, for the 2012 Cultural Olympiad festivities celebrating the UK, London, and the Olympics. The orchestral work is one of 20 new [...]

]]> http://blog.oup.com/2012/07/olympic-music-london-1948-2012/#comment-286159 OUPblog » Blog Archive » The Oxford Companion to the London 2012 Opening Ceremony Sun, 12 Aug 2012 07:31:41 +0000 http://blog.oup.com/?p=26903#comment-286159 [...] The ringing of the Olympic Bell by Tour-de-France winner Bradley Wiggins. The Olympic Bell was forged in the Whitechapel Bell Foundry (Grove; Alan Hughes, Managing Director in Who’s Who), which forged the Liberty Bell in 1752 (“The Liberty Bell” in Journal of American History; “Liberty Bell Center” in Journal of American History) and Big Ben in 1858 (Benjamin Hall, eponymist of Big Ben, in ODNB). It is inscribed with the words: ‘Be not afeard: the isle is full of noises.’ (A reference to Shakespeare’s The Tempest, more later.) Remember that bells play an important role in this area as a cockney is defined as someone born within hearing of Bow Bells (ODO; OUPblog) in East London and they have a distinctive rhyming slang (OxfordWords). Campanology (ODO) also plays an important role in the ceremony and the Cultural Olympiad. An OUP composer Howard Skempton wrote a piece for a 2012 project for Church Bells (OUPblog). [...] [...] The ringing of the Olympic Bell by Tour-de-France winner Bradley Wiggins. The Olympic Bell was forged in the Whitechapel Bell Foundry (Grove; Alan Hughes, Managing Director in Who’s Who), which forged the Liberty Bell in 1752 (“The Liberty Bell” in Journal of American History; “Liberty Bell Center” in Journal of American History) and Big Ben in 1858 (Benjamin Hall, eponymist of Big Ben, in ODNB). It is inscribed with the words: ‘Be not afeard: the isle is full of noises.’ (A reference to Shakespeare’s The Tempest, more later.) Remember that bells play an important role in this area as a cockney is defined as someone born within hearing of Bow Bells (ODO; OUPblog) in East London and they have a distinctive rhyming slang (OxfordWords). Campanology (ODO) also plays an important role in the ceremony and the Cultural Olympiad. An OUP composer Howard Skempton wrote a piece for a 2012 project for Church Bells (OUPblog). [...]

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