A Place To Call Home

A Place To Call Home

 

 

 

 

 

 

Recorded at the London Coliseum, 30^th October 2019

English National Opera (ENO) is pleased to announce that the single “A Place to Call Home” is released today (6^th December 2019).

This astonishing new song by former BBC Young Composer of the Year Alex Woolf will help to raise money in aid of Shelter’s Christmas appeal. Recorded live at the London Coliseum, nearly 2000 Community Singers joined ENO’s brilliant Chorus and Orchestra, as well as opera stars Sir Bryn Terfel, Alice Coote and Lesley Garrett. It was conducted by the ENO’s Martin Fitzpatrick.

Ruth Rikowski was one of the Community Singers.

 

You can share these links to friends and family to ask them to buy the single:

Youtube Music: https://music.youtube.com/playlist?list=OLAK5uy_k4UJhToa5xk3gPOlodPPXWv0Sad2wu3D4

Spotify:  https://open.spotify.com/album/1ACV8jAS9MfrldTVp59CJT?highlight=spotify:track:5meFJRCIK7FGE1yo9ExAK0

Google Play: https://play.google.com/store/music/album?id=Bj7r6u7i4sah224aid3lqkpmhym&tid=song-T2iiwcftnytvyvqnyop2kyhoigy&hl=en

Amazon Music: https://www.amazon.co.uk/dp/B082DJ1D76/ref=sr_1_1?keywords=a+place+to+call+home+sir+bryn+terfel&qid=1575593985&s=dmusic&sr=1-1

 

A quick method to get it on Youtube is to go to http://www.youtube.co.uk and then search for: A Place to Call Home ENO – and then it comes up!

Please share, please donate to Shelter….please make a difference for the homeless: https://www.justgiving.com/fundraising/singforshelter

 

A PLACE TO CALL HOME

Music and Lyrics by Alex Woolf

Lyrics

 

I stumbled across

A figure unknown,

Alive but alone, lost in his dreaming.

I stumbled because

That figure alone

He must have known what I was thinking:

That’s no place to call home.

 

I’ve stumbled before,

And I’ll stumble again.

I wish I’d known then how to give shelter.

I’ll stumble some more,

But I’ll seize the day, then

We’ll see the day when it’s not much to ask for:

A place to call home.

 

Sure as home is where the heart is

Homelessness is heartless and cruel.

Home…

If the heart is where the home is,

Aren’t we all homeless too?

 

I stumbled again

On that figure now known,

No longer alone, secure and with shelter.

I stumbled and then

I saw how he’d grown

In a place of his own.

 

So if home’s where the heart is

Then surely it’s smartest to start helping figures unknown.

Then we’ll all have a place…

A place to call home.

A place to call home.

 

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Blackheath Halls Opera 2019: Offenbach’s ‘La Belle Helene’

Blackheath Halls Opera 2019: Offenbach’s La Belle Hélène

 

 

Ruth Rikowski is singing in the Chorus for this event.

 

TUE 16, WED 17 & FRI 19 JUL 7pm | Great Hall
SUN 21 JUL 2.30pm | Great Hall

La belle Hélène: Opéra Comique in Three Acts
Music by Jacques Offenbach
Libretto by Henri Meillac and Ludovic Halévy
English Version by Jeremy Sams
Performed by arrangement with Josef Weinberger Limited

Director James Hurley
Conductor Christopher Stark
Designer April Dalton
Lighting Designer Ben Pickersgill

Helen Ellie Laugharne
Paris Oliver Johnston
Calchas Ben McAteer
Menelaus Joe Shovelton
Agamemnon Nicholas Merryweather
Oreste Rachel Maby**
Achilles Lars Fischer**
Bacchis Megan Linnell**
Parthenis Shana Moron Caravel**
Leona Gemma Wahl**
Ajax 1/Ajax 2 Michael Collins/Alexander White**
Blackheath Halls Opera Company
Blackheath Halls Orchestra

Blackheath Halls Opera is thrilled to present this exciting production of La belle Hélène on the 200th anniversary of Jacques Offenbach’s birth. This performance brings together a cast of world-class professional singers, talented vocal students from Trinity Laban and committed local amateur performers of all ages, backgrounds and abilities, united in their passion for music-making.

La belle Hélène tells the tale of the abduction of the fair Helen by the Paris, Prince of Troy. He is aided and abetted by the wily high priest, Calchas, who outwits Helen’s much deceived husband, Menelaus, as well as an assortment of bumbling Greek heroes. The score includes some of Offenbach’s best-loved melodies.

Whether you are a seasoned concert-goer, or have never been to an opera before in your life, there is not a better place to start than with La belle Hélène.

“The quality of performance plus the community engagement is a wonderful combination. It must be close to unique.”Audience feedback, Opera 2018

TICKETS: £19 | £17 conc. | £6 under 12s
Running Time: approx. 150 mins including interval

** Vocal student at Trinity Laban Conservatoire of Music and Dance

 

Booking details: https://www.blackheathhalls.com/whats-on/blackheath-halls-opera-2019-offenbachs-la-belle-h%C3%A9l%C3%A8ne

 

Ruth Rikowski

 

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SIREN SONG

Partenope

SIREN SONG

Saturday 20 May 2017

Performances at 5.00pm and 6.30pm

The Mulberry and Bigland Green Centre, Bigland Street, London, E1 2LG

 

This short performance is the culmination of an ENO Baylis Community Project inspired by ENO’s production of Handel’s Partenope 

The project brings together adult women of all ages from across London, and takes the central female characters in the opera as a starting point from which to explore contemporary perspectives on being a woman. The performance will combine original text and music created by the group alongside extracts from Partenope.

The group will be joined by ENO principal cast member Patricia Bardon and female members of the ENO Baylis Opera Works programme, with lighting design by ENO lighting technician Christina Smith.

This is a free event and places are limited.

To confirm your place please RSVP baylis@eno.org by Thursday 18^th April, stating your preferred performance time and the name of up to two guests.

We hope to see you there.

From the team at ENO Baylis.

 

ENO Baylis 

Learning and Participation Team

+44 (0)20 7632 8484 | Baylis@eno.org
ENGLISH NATIONAL OPERA | St Martin’s Lane, London, WC2N 4ES

 

Click to support English National Opera online today

 

ENO Partenope: https://www.eno.org/operas/partenope-3/ and https://www.eno.org/whats-on/partenope/

 

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Forest Voices Choir – Singing at the Gate

Forest Voices Choir

FOREST VOICES CHOIR – SINGING AT THE GATE

 

On 16th June 2016, from 6.30 to 8.00pm Forest Voices will sing at The Gate Library and Community Centre, 4 – 20 Woodgrange Road, Forest Gate, London E7 0QH.

Come and join us for a free evening of song and enjoyment!

Light refreshments provided.

Funded by a “Let’s Get the Party Started” grant from the London Borough of Newham

See: https://forestvoicese7.wordpress.com/ and for the flyer relating to the event, see: https://forestvoicese7.files.wordpress.com/2016/05/flyer-forest-gate-sings-16-jun-164.pdf

Ruth Rikowski is a member of the Forest Voices choir, and will be singing with them at The Gate on 16^th June.

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Forest Voices Choir

Forest Voices Choir

FOREST VOICES CHOIR

Singing ‘Line-Up’ in Forest Gate

Forest Voices Choir that Ruth Rikowski is a member of sang 3 songs for the turning on of the Christmas lights event. The lights were turned on by Robin Wales, the Mayor of Newham, on 5th December 2015. Two of the songs were Christmas Carols and the other was a lovely song advocating peace throughout the world. It is called ‘Line-Up’ (by Helen Yeomans).
Here are the words for ‘Line-Up’:

 

Line up, line up

Wo oh

For your place in the peaceable kingdom

Yeh, yeh, yeh.

 

Line up, line up

Wo oh

For your place in the peacable kingdom

Yeh, yeh, yeh.

 

Line up, line up

Wo oh

For your place in the peacable kingdom

Yeh, yeh, yeh

 

Bring your songs of freedom for a brave new world

 

Let me hear you

Sing, sing now.

 

Line up!

 

The rich and the poor

The weak and the strong

The humble and the proud

Won’t you sing out loud

The merciful of heart

The sinner and the saint

The forgiven and the wrong

Find your voice in song

No differentiation between black and white

Let the Arab man stand by the Israelite

There ain’t no creed, there ain’t no colour

But the blood that flow thru your sister and brother.

 

*Repeat lines up to ‘Line Up’.
Ruth has loaded the video of the Forest Voices Choir singing ‘Line-Up’  on to YouTube.

This is the first item that she has ever loaded anything on to YouTube! Hopefully, more will follow!

 

See: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ayWOiJdx5bs

 

Glenn Rikowski

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Forest Roots: Venue Change – Now at The Forest Gate Hotel!

Forest Gate Hotel

FOREST ROOTS: VENUE CHANGE – NOW AT THE FOREST GATE HOTEL!

Change of Venue: THE FOREST GATE HOTEL (Function Room)

Change of Start Time: Now starts at 8.00pm

 

 

Dear Forest Roots Folk

Thanks to everyone who turned up last month to see the amazing Acoustica. It was a great night and a real pleasure to see so many familiar faces.

This month we welcome back The Hot Strings Review featuring Martin Wheatley on guitar and ukulele and Mike Piggott www.mikepiggott.com on fiddle. They are both incredible musicians and gave us a fantastic evening last time they were at Forest Roots. If you saw them last time you will remember Martin’s mesmerizing performance of The Dambusters on the ukulele (check him out on YouTube) and Mike’s amazing jazz fiddle playing. These two are definitely not to be missed.

The Flats Family Band will be there as well as surprise guests and local performers. These include the Forest Voices Choir.

If you’d like to be one of them email us @ forestroots@googlemail.com.

So that’s The Hot Strings Review at Forest Roots, The Forest Gate Hotel. Godwin Road, Forest Gate, London E7 0LW

Friday 27th November.

Starts 8.00pm sharp – due to the number of performers, Forest Roots will now start at 8.00pm!

Transport: Bus – 86, 25, 330, 58, 308; Overground – Forest Gate (TfL Rail) and Wanstead Park

Stay forever young

Jenny and Caroline

Forest Root: Country, Folk, Blues and Beyond

 

NOTE: Victor Rikowski will be one of the performers. Ruth Rikowski will be singing with Forest Voices.

 

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Forest Roots – The Sir Alfred Hitchcock Hotel – 27th November

The Sir Alfred Hitchcock Hotel

FOREST ROOTS

THE SIR ALFRED HITCHCOCK HOTEL

27th NOVEMBER

 

Dear Forest Roots Folk

Thanks to everyone who turned up last month to see the amazing Acoustica. It was a great night and a real pleasure to see so many familiar faces.

This month we welcome back The Hot Strings Review featuring Martin Wheatley on guitar and ukulele and Mike Piggott www.mikepiggott.com on fiddle. They are both incredible musicians and gave us a fantastic evening last time they were at Forest Roots. If you saw them last time you will remember Martin’s mesmerizing performance of The Dambusters on the ukulele (check him out on YouTube) and Mike’s amazing jazz fiddle playing. These two are definitely not to be missed.

The Flats Family Band will be there as well as surprise guests and local performers.

If you’d like to be one of them email us @ forestroots@googlemail.com.

So that’s The Hot Strings Review at Forest Roots, The Sir Alfred Hitchcock, 147 Whipps Cross Road, Leytonstone, London E11 1NP on Friday 27th November.

Starts 8.30pm sharp

Transport: Bus (257); underground Central Line, Leytonstone

Alfred Hitchcock

Stay forever young

Jenny and Caroline

Forest Root: Country, Folk, Blues and Beyond

 

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The Glass Factory

The Glass Factory

THE GLASS FACTORY

A monthly evening of alternative music and performances of all shapes and sizes

Next performances: Saturday 14^th November 2915; 5^th December 2015; 9^th January 2016

Time: 4.00 – 8.00pm

Red Door Studios

E6 3RW

 

Red Door Studios

Masterman Road (rear 120 High St South)

E6 3RW

Email: Curator.reddoor@gmail.com

Phone: 07753186009

Nearest tube: East Ham

Bus routes: 101, 104, 115, 58, 474

Accessible by bus from: Stratford, Forest Gate, Leytonstone, Wanstead, Canning Town, Aldgate.

 

The Glass Factory @ Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/events/1644757859074990/

Red Door Studios & Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/RedDoorStudiosE6

Red Door Studios website: http://www.reddoorse6.co.uk/

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All Saints Chorus & Orchestra

Beethoven

ALL SAINTS CHORUS & ORCHESTRA

The All Saints Chorus and Orchestra are celebrating their 20^th anniversary concert season starting this year. Formed in 1994, the Chorus is a community choir. Membership is open to all and there are no auditions. The choir have a reputation for performing concerts of the highest standard in Newham, the area in which they rehearse and perform.

They have an extensive repertoire of music ranging from the 15th century to today. Included are the great works of composers such as Bach, Handel, Mozart, Haydn, Brahms, and Verdi. The chorus enjoys a good social life outside the rehearsal room and the annual weekend away provides the perfect opportunity to rehearse, socialise and relax.

The All Saints Orchestra is a mix of seasoned professional players featuring instrumentalists from many of the major London orchestras. Together with the Chorus and our dedicated group of acclaimed soloists they give a wide audience the chance to experience great music in the historic setting of West Ham Parish Church.

 

Next Event: West Ham Parish Church (All Saints), Church Street, E15 3HU

Saturday 21 November 2015

7.30pm

Vaughan-Williams: Towards the Unknown Region, and Antiphon: Let All the World

Beethoven: Symphony No.7

Brahms: A German Requium

 

Margaret Feuvoir – Soprano

Stephen Alder – Bass

All Saints Chorus

All Saints Orchestra

Jon Cullen – Conductor

 

Tickets: Adults £17; Concessions £10. On the door or in advance – Telephone: 07513 414665

Website: http://allsaintschorus.org/

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Forest Roots @ The Sir Alfred Hitchcock Hotel

The Sir Alfred Hitchcock Hotel

FOREST ROOTS @ THE SIR ALFRED HITCHCOCK HOTEL

Dear Forest Roots Folk

Just to let you know that we are doing a one off night at The Sir Alfred Hitchcock Hotel in Leytonstone on Friday 9th October with Acoustica, featuring Paul Kerr on guitar, Chris Haigh on fiddle and Rupert on double bass with Coxy doing a support set.

We know it isn’t Forest Gate but it is opposite the forest and it’s a great venue with ample parking and a very supportive landlord so we hope you can make it.

So that’s Acoustica on Friday, 9th October at:

The Sir Alfred Hitchcock Hotel, 147 Whipps Cross Road, Leytonstone E11 1NP

Starts 8.30pm

We’d love to see you all again

Stay forever young

Jenny and Caroline

PS please forward this to anyone you think would be interested

The Sir Alfred Hitchcock Hotel: http://www.thehitchcockhotel.com/

Ruth, Gregory and Glenn Rikowski @ The Sir Alfred Hitchcock Hotel – 4th January 2014

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Critical Pedagogy Vs. Capital: Reigniting the Conversation

Education Not for Sale

CRITICAL PEDAGOGY VS. CAPITAL: REIGNITING THE CONVERSATION

CRITICAL THEORIES IN THE 21^st CENTURY: A CONFERENCE OF TRANSFORMATIVE PEDAGOGIES

4th Annual Conference 2015, November 6^th & 7^th 

Location: West Chester University, 700 South High Street, West Chester, PA 19383, USA

Two Days of Discussion and Music!

Bill Ayers

Opening Conference Keynote:  Bill Ayers
Professor Ayers is a Distinguished Professor of Education and Senior University Scholar at the University of Illinois at Chicago (retired). He is a member of the executive committee of the Faculty Senate and founder of both the Small Schools Workshop and the Center for Youth and Society. Dr. Ayers has taught courses in interpretive and qualitative research, oral history, creative non-fiction, urban school change, and teaching and the modern predicament. To learn more about Dr. Ayers and his work please visit his webpage at: http://billayers.org/biographyhistory/

 

Dave Hill

Closing Conference Keynote: Dave Hill
Dave Hill is Research Professor of Education at Anglia Ruskin University, Chelmsford, England, and Visiting Professor of Education at the Universities of Athens, Greece, Middlesex, London.  Dave is a Marxist academic and political activist in different countries, in particular with trade unions and left / socialist / Marxist groups in Greece, Turkey and Ireland as well as England. His academic work focuses on issues of neoliberalism, capitalism, class, `race’, resistance and socialist education/ education for equality; critical pedagogy/critical education. He founded in 2003 and chief edits the free online peer-juried journal, the Journal for Critical Education Policy Studies, www.jceps.com, a free online, scholarly, peer-juried international journal that has had nearly a million downloads in 10 years.

Musical Artists: Marcel Cartier, Magik, and Squid Brothers Inc.

Call For Papers
The 4th Annual Conference on Critical Theories in the 21st Century aims to reinvigorate the field of critical pedagogy. The primary question driving this conference is: What is to be done to make critical pedagogy an effective educational weapon in the current struggle against capitalism and imperialism?

There is no doubt that we are at a critical juncture in history in terms of the limits of nature’s vital ecosystems, the physical limits of the progressive accumulation of capital, and the deepening reactionary ideology and scapegoating that exacerbates the oppression of youth of color. If critical pedagogy is to play a significant role in intervening in the current context, then a sharpened sense of purpose and direction is needed.

Squid Brothers Inc.

Some examples of possible topics include:

• Marxism
• Post-structuralism/post-modernism
• Anarchism
• Challenging the unholy trinity of state, capital, and religion
• Class and the capital-labor dialectic
• Identity and economics
• Hierarchical and vertical forms of organization (i.e., vanguards versus networks)
• Reform versus revolution
• Socialism, communism, & democracy
• Affect theory and the new materialisms
• The knowledge economy, post-Fordism, and “cognitive capitalism”
• Critical geography

While this conference will include important presentations and debates in critical pedagogy, it will not be limited to this focus. In other words, as critical theory becomes more inclusive, global, and all encompassing, this conference welcomes more than just academics as important contributors. That is, we recognize students and youth groups as possessing authentic voices based on their unique relationship to capitalism and will therefore be open to them as presenters and discussion leaders.

While this conference will include important presentations and challenging discussions based in critical pedagogy, it will not be limited to this focus. In other words, as critical theory becomes more inclusive, global, and all encompassing, this conference welcomes more than just academics as important contributors.

Please submit abstract proposals (500-1000 words) to: Curry Malott (cmalott@wcupa.edu)

Proposal due date: September 27th, 2015

 

Conference website: http://ct21st.org/

Curry Malott

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High Noon Showdown on Black Metal Theory

HIGH NOON SHOWDOWN ON BLACK METAL THEORY

TOPICS IN THE AESTHETICS OF MUSIC AND SOUND

SEMINAR SERIES

Thursday, October 1, 2015

3:15-5 p.m. in U67

Institute for the Study of Culture (IKV) University of Southern Denmark (SDU) Campusvej 55, Odense

Panel discussion (Via Skype):

High Noon Showdown on Black Metal Theory

With …

Karl Spracklen is Professor of Leisure Studies at Leeds Beckett University, UK. He is the Editor of Metal Music Studies and the Secretary of the International Society for Metal Music Studies. He has extensive research interests relating to leisure spaces and leisure identities, and has contributed to debates regarding leisure theory. He has over seventy publications, including three research monographs, the most recent of which is Whiteness and Leisure (2013), published by Palgrave Macmillan.

Niall Scott is Senior Lecturer in Ethics at the University of Central Lancashire. He is editor of Helvete: A Journal of Black Metal Theory and Co-Editor of Metal Music Studies. He is one of the founders and Chair of the Society for Metal Music Studies, and has published over 40 pieces in the fields of metal studies, black metal theory, political philosophy, cultural theory, ethics and bioethics.

Edia Connole is co-author with Nicola Masciandaro of Floating Tomb: Black Metal Theory (Mimesis, 2015), and co-editor with Gary J. Shipley of Serial Killing: A Philosophical Anthology (Schism, 2015). With Scott Wilson, Edia Connole is also the co-founder of MOUTH, an actionist art project in culinary divinomics. mmmouth.wordpress.com

Black Metal Theory

Abstract: In this seminar defenders and critics will debate the epistemic value of black metal theory (BMT). An amorphous “metallectual” movement initiated in 2009 with the symposium Hideous Gnosis, BMT has developed in the form of a distributed and vexed forum for trans-disciplinary intellectual work committed to thinking “with” rather than “about” black metal. For defenders of the discipline, its value lies in its ability to destroy creatively the boundary between black metal and theory—constituting itself in the space of their shared negativity, as stated on its inaugural website: “Not black metal. Not Theory. Not not black metal. Not not theory. Black metal theory. Theoretical blackening of metal. Metallic blackening of theory. Mutual blackening. Nigredo in the intoxological crucible of symposia.” For critics of the discipline, this trans-disciplinary approach is devoid of purpose and meaning, and makes the work of critically exploring black metal more difficult.

 

All are welcome – also via Skype

Outland

 

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