The Cramb Lecture & Residency in Music
The Cramb Lecture and Residency in Music annually invites a visiting lecturer, pre-eminent in the field of Music, to the University of Glasgow for an inspiring series of seminars, workshops and performances.
Previous Cramb scholars have included Aaron Copland, Sir Peter Pears, George Lewis, Lydia Goehr, Susan McClary, and Thea Musgrave.
The Cramb Lecture in Music was founded in 1911 by Miss Susannah Cramb of the Hermitage, Helensburgh and in 1947 provision was made for the lecture to become an annual event. In more recent years the format has been expanded and visiting speakers have carried out an extended residency at the University. Residencies have incorporated public performance and seminars with Music students in addition to the traditional public lecture.
LATEST: The Cramb Residency for 2020 will feature Prof. David Toop, chair of Audio Culture and Improvisation at the University of the Arts London and take place February 26th - 27th 2020.
Cramb Residency 2020
David Toop - Thursday 27th and Friday 28th February 2020
A warm welcome to David Toop, renowned experimental musician and celebrated author about all things ‘sound’ and ‘listening’, as our 2020 Cramb Resident in Music.
David Toop (born 1949) has been developing a practice that crosses boundaries of sound, listening, music and materials since 1970. This encompasses improvised music performance, writing, electronic sound, field recording, exhibition curating, sound art installations and opera. It includes seven acclaimed books, including Rap Attack (1984), Ocean of Sound (1995), Sinister Resonance (2010), Into the Maelstrom (2016), Flutter Echo (2019), and Inflamed Invisible: Writing On Art and Sound 1976-2018 (2020). Briefly a member of David Cunningham’s pop project The Flying Lizards in 1979, he has released thirteen solo albums, from New and Rediscovered Musical Instruments on Brian Eno’s Obscure label (1975) and Sound Body on David Sylvian’s Samadhisound label (2006) to Entities Inertias Faint Beings (2016). His 1978 Amazonas recordings of Yanomami shamanism and ritual were released on Sub Rosa as Lost Shadows (2016). In recent years his collaborations include Rie Nakajima, Akio Suzuki, Tania Chen, John Butcher, Ken Ikeda, Elaine Mitchener, Henry Grimes, Sharon Gal, Camille Norment, Sidsel Endresen, Alasdair Roberts, Thurston Moore, Ryuichi Sakamoto and a revived Alterations, the iconoclastic improvising quartet with Steve Beresford, Peter Cusack and Terry Day first formed in 1977. Curator of sound art exhibitions including Sonic Boom at the Hayward Gallery (2000), his opera – Star-shaped Biscuit – was performed as an Aldeburgh Faster Than Sound project in 2012. He is currently Professor of Audio Culture and Improvisation at London College of Communication.
Programme
Thursday 27th February 2020
‘Rap Attacks – Revisited’
A Seminar/ discussion session for John Williamson’s ‘Popular Music and Politics’ course.
University Concert Hall – 2pm
Open to SCCA UG and PG staff and students only: (david-toop-cramb-2020.eventbrite.co.uk)
Cramb Concert
Una McGlone (double bass) / Sebastian Lexer (piano+) - duo
Ute Kanngiesser (cello) - solo
David Toop (electronics) / Luke Fowler (electronics) - duo
University Concert Hall – 7pm
Free but ticketed: (david-toop-cramb-2020.eventbrite.co.uk)
Friday 28th February 2020
‘Listening: an Open Conversation with David Toop and guests’
Hosted by David Code, Reader in Music, University of Glasgow
Featuring a performance of 'Table Manners' by David Toop and Iain Findlay-Walsh
University Concert Hall – 5.15pm until the chat runs out
Free but ticketed: (david-toop-cramb-2020.eventbrite.co.uk)
As befits the experimental, open, and inclusive practice of Toop as a musician and listener, our first event offers a public ‘round table’ on the theme of ‘Listening’ (to sound, music, or anything else) featuring several invited guests from within and without the University. The audience will be welcome to join in – but might prefer just to sit and listen.
Further information
List of Previous Cramb Residencies
| Year | Speaker | |
|---|---|---|
| 1923 | Sir Percy Carter Buck | Organist and Composer; Director of Music, Harrow School |
| 1924 | Sir Henry Walford Davies | Gresham Professor of Music, University of London |
| 1925 | Sir Donald Francis Tovey, FRSE | Reid Professor of Music, University of Edinburgh |
| 1926 | Gustav Holst | Composer; Director of Music, Morley College |
| 1927 | Henry Cope Colles | Chief music critic, The Times; editor, Grove's Dictionary, 3rd and 4th editions |
| 1928 | Sir George Dyson | Composer; Professor of composition, RCM; Master of Music, Winchester College |
| 1931 | William Gillies Whittaker | Composer, Conductor and Musicologist; Principal, RSAMD, and Gardiner Professor, University of Glasgow |
| 1933 | Henry George Farmer | Musicologist and Arabist |
| 1934 | Michel D Calvocoressi |
Critic, Musicologist, and translator; scholar of Russian music |
| 1935 | Sir Donald Francis Tovey, FRSE |
Reid Professor of Music, University of Edinburgh |
| 1937 | Edmund Horace Fellowes | Musicologist and editor of early music; Canon of St George’s Chapel, Windsor |
| 1939 | Sir Hugh Percy Allen | Conductor and Musicologist; Professor of Music, Oxford University; Director, RCM |
| 1946 | Charles Henry Phillip | |
| 1947 | Ronald Ernest Woodham |
Musicologist |
| 1947 | Frank Howes | Music Critic of The Times; President of the RMA |
| 1948 | Sir Thomas Armstrong | Conductor, Composer, and Organist of Christ Church Cathedral, Oxford |
| 1949 | Sir George Dyson | Composer; Professor of composition, RCM; Master of Music, Winchester College |
| 1950 | Sir Steuart Wilson | Singer; Director of the Arts Council of Great Britain; Director of Music for the BBC |
| 1951 | Ivor Benjamin Hugh James, FRCM | Professor in the Royal College of Music, London |
| 1951 | Frederick William Rimmer | Senior Lecturer in Music, Homerton College, Cambridge |
| 1952 | Frank Howes | Music Critic of The Times |
| 1953 | Herbert Wiseman | Scottish Music Director, BBC |
| 1954 | Herbert Kennedy Andrews | Composer and Organist; Lecturer in Music at Oxford and the RCM |
| 1955 | Gordon Jacob, FRCM, HonRAM | Composer and music editor; Professor at the RCM |
| 1956 | Sydney Newman | Composer and conductor; Reid Professor of Music, University of Edinburgh |
| 1957 | Erik Chisholm, DMus, FRCO | Composer, pianist, conductor; Professor at the University of Cape Town |
| 1958 | Alan Douglas, MIRE, MAIEE | |
| 1959 | Thurston Dart | Musicologist, conductor and performer; Lecturer in Music, University of Cambridge |
| 1960 | Sir Anthony Lewis | Musicologist, conductor and composer; Professor of Music, University of Birmingham |
| 1961 | Peter Pears, CBE | |
| 1962 | Aaron Copland | Composer, conductor |
| 1963 | Henry McLeod Havergal | Principal of the Royal Scottish Academy of Music |
| 1964 | Keith Falkner, FRCM | Director of the Royal College of Music |
| 1965 | William Mann | Music Critic of “The Times” |
| 1966 | Wilfrid H. Mellers | Professor of Music, University of York |
| 1967 | Hugh Tracey | Director, International Library of African Music |
| 1968 | Sir Jack Westrup | Heather Professor of Music, University of Oxford |
| 1969 | Peter Angus Evans, FRCO | Professor of Music, University of Southampton |
| 1970 | Cedric Thorpe Davie, OBE, FRACM | Reader in Music, University of St Andrews |
| 1971 | Iain Ellis Hamilton | Professor of Music, Duke University |
| 1972 | Witold Lutoslawski | Composer |
| 1973 | Denis Matthews, FRAM | Professor of Music, University of Newcastle upon Tyne |
| 1975 | Ivor Keys, FRCO | Professor of Music, University of Birmingham |
| 1976 | Luciano Berio | Composer |
| 1977 | Thomas Jeffrey Hemsley | Opera and concert singer |
| 1977 | Thea Musgrave | Composer |
| 1979 | H. Robbins Landon | Author and music historian |
| 1985 | Wilfred H. Mellers, OBE | Professor of Music, University of York |
| 1986 | Alena Němcová | Music Information Centre of the Czech Music Fund |
| 1987 | Peter Branscombe | Author |
| 1987 | Neil FI Sorrell | Senior Lecturer, University of York; co-founder, English Gamelan Orchestra |
| 1988 | Hans Tischler | Emeritus Professor of Musicology, University of Indiana |
| 1988 | Peter Maxwell Davies, CBE | Composer and conductor |
| 1989 | David Charlton | Lecturer in Music, Royal Holloway, University of London |
| 1989 | Yuri Kholopov | Moscow Conservatoire |
| 1990 | Joan Rimmer | Musician |
| 1994 | Hugh J. Macdonald | Musicologist; Professor of Music, Washington University, St Louis |
| 1997 | Jane Glover | Conductor |
| 2000 | Richard Taruskin | Musicologist; Professor of Music, University of California, Berkeley |
| 2001 | Anthony Newcomb | Musicologist; Professor of Music, University of California, Berkeley |
| 2000 | Laszlo Somfai | Musicologist, Bartok Institute, Budapest |
| 2002 | Leo Treitler | Emeritus Professor of Music, the Graduate School, CUNY |
| 2004 | Roger Parker | University of Cambridge |
| 2005 | Lydia Goehr | Professor of Philosophy, Columbia University |
| 2006 | Simon Frith | Tovey Professor of Music, University of|Edinburgh |
| 2007 | George Lewis | Edwin H. Case Professor of American Music, Director of the Center for Jazz Studies at Columbia University |
| 2012 | Anne Smith | Performer and musicologist; Schola Cantorum Basiliensis |
| 2013 | Katherine Bergeron & Joseph Butch Rovan | Musicologist and Composer; Professors of Music, Brown University |
| 2014 | Peter Wiegold | Composer and conductor; Professor of Music, Brunel University |
| 2015 | Heiner Goebbels | Composer; Justus-Liebig-Universität Gießen |
| 2016 | Susan McClary | Musicologist; Professor of Music, Case Western Reserve University |
| 2017 | Allan Moore | Professor Emeritus, University of Surrey |
| 2018 | Marianne Wheeldon | Professor of Music Theory, University of Texas at Austin |
| 2019 | Jeremy Dutcher | Composer, musicologist, performer and activist |