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13 September 2024: Marie was interviewed for the SRF Radio programme ‘Guter Arzt = guter Musiker? Ein Klischee auf dem Prüfstand’, talking about the connection between music and medicine in history. Listen here.
14 July 2024: Mark presented a programme for BBC Radio 3 called ‘Metastasio’s Olimpiade’. This was less an opera, more an operatic craze. Beginning with Antonio Caldara’s premiere in Vienna in 1733, and swiftly followed by a version by Vivaldi in 1734, there were more than 50 productions of Metastasio’s text in the 18th century. Listen here.
July 2024: Mark interviewed the vocal ensemble The Gesualdo Six for Gramophone magazine. Their conversation, entitled ‘In harmony: meeting The Gesualdo Six’, covered ideas of intonation and resonance when singing together as an ensemble – and in particular what happened when that fleshly form of musical vibration was taken away during covid-19 pandemic. They discussed the commissioning of ‘coronasolfège for 6’ by composer Héloïse Werner. Read the full piece here.
Here is their performance of Werner’s ‘coronasolfège for 6’:
June 2024: For the cover feature of the June edition of Gramophone magazine, ‘Baroque Champion’, Mark interviewed the internationally renowned Baroque violinist Rachel Podger. At the centre of the piece, Podger describes an‘out-of-body’ experience when playing the music of Bach and what it means for her to ‘flow’ in performance. Their conversation was vital to Mark’s research on embodiment and violin playing. Read the full article here.
4 April 2024: Online article for the Gramophone website entitled ‘Vivaldi for a modern world’. Mark explores the themes of what and who is Vivaldi ‘today’ and how he is kept alive through artistic innovations such as archival research, recording, and electronic arrangements. Read here.
5 March 2024: Mark was invited to attend the Royal Philharmonic Society Awards Ceremony held at the Royal Northern College of Music in Manchester, UK. His documentary for BBC Radio 4, ‘Eastern Classical’, was shortlisted in the ‘Storytelling’ category. Listen here.
25 February 2024: Mark featured the research of the musicologist Bettina Varwig, showcasing material from her monograph Music in the Flesh (Chicago University Press 2023) on The Early Music News segment of ‘The Early Music Show’. Varwig is on the Advisory Board for GOING VIRAL.
14 January 2024: Mark presented ‘Chinoiserie’ for BBC Radio 3. This programme explored the cultural flow between East and West in the 17th and 18th centuries, featuring music by Rameau and Purcell, as well as European missionaries based in China such as Pedrini and Amiot. Listen here.
19-20 October 2023: International conference “Music and Disease” (IRCAM, Paris), together with Marie’s Utrecht colleague and co-founder of the Music/Sound and Trauma Study Group, Annelies Andries. Our talk Melancholy and the romance c. 1800: challenges and opportunities from a trauma studies perspective addressed historiographical questions of how to study the concept of trauma in past constellations.
30 March 2023: It was an honour and a great pleasure to collaborate with 3Sat Kulturzeit to produce a feature on music in pandemics. The programme can be accessed here (last contribution starting at min 29:18).
8 December 2022: Some thoughts on music and emotions in Terra X History – Der Podcast. Gesang: ein uraltes Gemeinschaftsgefühl
7/8 December 2022: Article on GOING VIRAL in the Austrian Daily Newspaper Der Standard (Forschung Spezial, S. 24)
24 November 2022: Radio Interview in GOING VIRAL, SWR2 Treffpunkt Klassik (German Southwest Broadcasting 2): “Musikgespräch: Musik in den Pandemien der vergangenen Jahrhunderte“