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HCMF final weekend: Sun - John Cage: Concert Reclaimed

TOWN HALL 4PM, Tickets £16 (£14 concession) 50-year retrospective of the 1958 New York Town Hall concert Part 1 4pm - 5.15pmJohn Cage: Six short inventions First Construction (in metal) Imaginary landscape No 1 The wonderful widow of eighteen springs She is asleep Music for carillon Williams [re]Mix[ed] (performed by Larry Austin) Read

HCMF final weekend: Sun - New London Chamber Choir

ST PAUL'S HALL 1.30PM, Tickets £12 (£10 concession) Mauricio Kagel Gegenstimmen Mauricio Kagel Burleske Karlheinz Stockhausen Chöre für Doris Karlheinz Stockhausen Litanei 97 Read

HCMF final weekend: Sat - Junk instruments family workshop

THE WATERSHED 10AM -12 NOON, FREE EVENT Read

HCMF final weekend: Sat - Ascolta/Zappa

BATE'S MILL 11PM, Tickets £16 (£14 concession) Frank Zappa:I was in a Drum UK PREMIERE Reagan at BitburgUK PREMIERE  Overture to Uncle Sam UK PREMIERE   Samba Funk UK PREMIERE Read

HCMF final weekend: Sat - Musikfabrik

ST PAUL'S HALL 7.30PM, Tickets £18 (£16 concession) Karlheinz Stockhausen KLANG 9th Hour: HOPE UK PREMIERE Sun Ra Pleiades UK PREMIERE Sun Ra outer nothingness UK PREMIERERead

HCMF final weekend: Sat - Arne Deforce/Richard Barrett

STUDIO 2 4PM, Tickets £12 (£10 concession) Bernd Alois Zimmermann Intercomunicazione Samuel Beckett Not I Richard Barrett new work (HCMF commission) UK PREMIERE Read

HCMF final weekend: Sat - Anton Lukoszevieze: Solo

ST PAUL'S HALL 1PM, Tickets £10 (£8 concession) Egidija Medeksaite new work WORLD PREMIEREJuste Janulyte new workWORLD PREMIERERicardas Kabelis new work (HCMF commission) WORLD PREMIEREMathew Adkins new work WORLD PREMIEREKarlheinz Essl new work WORLD PREMIEREPiaras Hoban new work (HCMF commission) WORLD PREMIERERead

HCMF artistic director Graham McKenzie's blog 27/11/08

There was a very strange occurrence during pianist Nicolas Hodges solo piano recital of Karlheinz Stockhausen’s Naturliche Dauern – the third hour of Klang – in St Paul’s Hall. Just towards the end of the first half of the concert the pianist is required to recite a short text, which Nic did – however immediately back came a voice in reply in what sounded like perfect Hebrew. A woman’s voice - so spontaneous and in perfect time with the piece. Everyone thought it must be part of the piece and it was only after the concert that I found out that Nic was as surprised as anyone else. No-one seemed to see or notice who had spoken the words! Very spooky!Read

HCMF Photogallery 3

This gallery contains pictures of events from this year's Huddersfield Contemporary Music Festival.Read

Graham McKenzie

HCMF artistic director Graham McKenzie's blog

A full report on a weekend of music - and cheers for a dustbin lorry operative.Read

Eyes of the world on a festival to be proud of

HUDDERSFIELD is alive with the sound of music as hundreds of people flock to take part in this year’s Contemporary Music Festival.Read

Monday: Electric Autumn

ST PAUL'S HALL 8PM - 8.30PM, Free event Informal outcome performance from HCMF's Electric Autumn scratch band for guitarists aged 13-16, who have spent the previous weekend strumming, twanging and jamming under the leadership of Rob Crisp. Read

Monday: Quatuor Bozzini/Tenney 1

BATE'S MILL 9.30PM, James Tenney In a large, open space UK PREMIERERead

Monday: Scottish Flute Trio 2

ST PAUL'S HALL 1PM, Tickets £8 (£6 concession) Thea Musgrave Taking Turns Sally Beamish Aquarium Kirsty Blackwood new work Pippa Murphy Changing Paths Read

HCMF Photogallery 2

This gallery features a guitarists' workshop, instruments made from junk and sound sculptures in Colne Valley.Read

Sunday: Colne Valley Listeners guided walk

SUNDAY 23 NOVEMBER ROTCHER PICNIC SITE, SLAITHWAITE 10AM, Free event Join sound artist Matthew Sansom for a guided soundwalk around his new, permanent sound sculpture installation. Read

Sunday: Scottish Flue Trio 1

LAWRENCE BATLEY THEATRE 12 NOON, Tickets £8 (£6 concession) David Fennessy Foot Foot and Other Stories Thea Musgrave Voices from the Ancient World Gordon McPherson Three Minute Philosophy Isang Yun Salomo Geir Rafnsson Hekla Read

Sunday: Exaudi

ST PAUL'S HALL 7.30PM, Tickets £12 (£10 concession) Bryn Harrison Open 2 Markus Trunk raw rowsBryn Harrison new work (HCMF commission)Read

Sunday: Bryn Harrison portrait

ST PAUL'S HALL 7.30PM, Tickets £12 (£10 concession) Bryn Harrison Open 2 Markus Trunk raw rowsBryn Harrison new work (HCMF commission)Read

Sunday: Klangforum Wien 2

BATES MILL 4PM, Tickets £22 (£18 concession) Dror Feiler BASURA / MÜLL UK PREMIERE Read

HCMF Artistic Director's Blog

Graham McKenzie

Graham McKenzie's view on the HCMF

Live the HCMF with artistic director Graham McKenzie Read

HCMF website

HCMF

Official 2008 website

Click here to be taken to the official 2008 Huddersfield Contemporary Music Festival website. Read

HCMF: What's On?

HCMF: What's On?

Programme

Click here for a full programme of events, including times, costs and locations, for this year's HCMF. Read

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