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Music of Our Time 2025
Programme for JAM's 25th anniversary concert, Music of Our Time, at St Bride's Church, Fleet Street on 26 March 2025, launching the JAM @25 season with the world premiere of Joseph Phibbs's Seven Songs of Nature alongside Timothy Jackson's No Answer and Paul Mealor's Now Sleeps the Crimson Petal. Inside are welcomes from John Frederick Hudson and Edward Armitage BEM, a chronology of all 45 JAM commissions, programme notes, texts, performer biographies, a JAM on the Marsh preview and supporter lists.
In this publication
Cover: JAM @25, Music of Our Time | 3 |
Welcome from the Artistic Director | 5 | John Frederick Hudson, Beibei Wang, Thomas Kelly, Edward Armitage BEM
JAM @ 25: a history by the Chair | 6 | Edward Armitage BEM, Onyx Brass, Robert Jones, Timothy Jackson, Charles Cochrane, Jonathan Dove, Marisa Robles, Paul Mealor, Richard Peat, Sarah MacDonald, Claire Seaton, Nicholas Cleobury, Michael Bawtree, Daniel Cook, Simon Hogan
From the JAM Archives | 8 | Edward Armitage, John Armitage, Sarah MacDonald, Paul Mealor, Tim Jackson, Onyx Brass, Robert Jones
JAM Commissions 2002 to 2025 | 10 | Timothy Jackson, Jonathan Dove, John McCabe, Paul Patterson, Judith Bingham, Adam Gorb, Gabriel Jackson, Steve Martland, Hannah Kendall, Tarik O'Regan, Paul Mealor, Richard Peat, Rory Boyle, Philip Cashian, Julian Phillips, Phillip Cooke, Giles Swayne, Thea Musgrave, Thomas LaVoy, Tom Harrold, Stuart Beach, Daniel Saleeb, Jack Oades, Janet Wheeler, Tara Creme, Christopher Churcher, James Aburn, Mark-Anthony Turnage, Jago Thornton, Isabelle Thornton, John Frederick Hudson, Joseph Phibbs, Marisse Cato, Steve Richer, Stephen McNeff
JAM Digital: A Free Global Composers' Resource | 12 | VOCES8 Foundation, Sacconi Quartet, Onyx Brass, Francesca Massey
Anniversary tributes | 14 | Thea Musgrave CBE, Judith Bingham OBE, Robin Tyson, Sarah MacDonald, Tarik O'Regan, David Gordon-Shute
Programme: A Celebration of New Music | 15 | Timothy Jackson, Sarah MacDonald, Alan Bullard, Laura Heneghan, Eoghan Desmond, Paul Mealor, Joseph Phibbs, The Chapel Choir of Selwyn College Cambridge, Onyx Brass, Claire Seaton, Philippe Durrant, James Emerson, Simon Hogan
No Answer: note, biography and texts | 16 | Timothy Jackson, Chris Abani, Maria Terentyeva, Mikhail Kudinov, Vladimir Mayakovsky, Lev Timofeyev, Richard McKane
Brother Sun, Sister Moon: note, text and biography | 18 | Sarah MacDonald
The Cats Are Crowding Us: note, text and biography | 19 | Alan Bullard
Chrome: note and biography | 20 | Laura Heneghan
In the Timbrels and Dances: note and biography | 21 | Eoghan Desmond, David O Shea
Now Sleeps the Crimson Petal: note, texts and biography | 22 | Paul Mealor LVO, Alfred Tennyson, John Ward
Seven Songs of Nature: note, biography and texts | 24 | Joseph Phibbs, Gerard Manley Hopkins, Hilaire Belloc, Nicholas Cleobury
Performers | 26 | The Chapel Choir of Selwyn College Cambridge, Sarah MacDonald, Onyx Brass, Alan Thomas, Andrew Sutton, David Gordon-Shute, Amos Miller, Niall Keatley, Simon Hogan, Philippe Durrant, Claire Seaton, James Emerson
JAM on the Marsh 2025 Festival Preview | 28 | Edward Armitage BEM, London Tango Quintet, BBC Singers, King's Singers, Britten Sinfonia, Imogen Whitehead, Daniel Cook, Changeling Theatre, Rebecca Afonwy-Jones, John Frederick Hudson, Igor Yuzefovich, JAM Sinfonia, Kosmos Ensemble, Jillian Bain Christie, Paul Mealor
Composers' Residency 2025 | 33 | Beibei Wang, Thomas Kelly, Paul Mealor LVO, John Frederick Hudson, Jonathan Dove CBE, Gabriel Jackson, Shirley Thompson OBE
Creative Team and Trustees | 34 | Paul Mealor LVO, John Frederick Hudson, Edward Armitage BEM, Sarah Armitage, Karen Gambrell, James Aburn, Charles Cochrane, Timothy Jackson, Patricia Rolfe
Supporters | 35 | Susan Pilcher, Tristan Fewings, Justin Sutcliffe
