John Feeney Charitable Trust

Recent grants:


Introduction

2008

2007

2006


Case studies:

The Feeney
Commissions


Feeney Ballet Scholarship

List of Feeney Commissions


Composer Title of work Date Where performed
Sir Arthur Bliss Meditations on a Theme by John Blow* 13.12.1955 Birmingham
Michael Tippett Piano Concerto* 30.10.1956 Birmingham
Peter Wishart Concerto for Orchestra 14.3.1957 Birmingham
Edmund Rubbra Symphony No.7 1.10.1957 Birmingham
Lennox Berkeley Symphony No.2 24.5.1959 Birmingham
Alan Rawsthorne Symphony No.2 29.9.1959 Birmingham
Alun Hoddinott Violin Concerto 30.3.1961 Birmingham
John Gardner Herrick Cantata 30.11.1961 Birmingham
Andrzej Panufnik Piano Concerto 25.1.1962 Birmingham
Humphrey Searle Symphony No.4 8.11.1962 Birmingham
Robert Simpson Symphony No.3 14.3.1963 Birmingham
Sir Arthur Bliss Mary of Magdala 2.9.1963 Worcester
Elizabeth Maconchy Serenata Concertante for Violin & Orch 17.10.1963 Birmingham
John Gardner The Noble Heart 14.6.1964 Stratford-upon-Avon
Don Banks Divisions for Orchestra 12.7.1965 Cheltenham
Gordon Crosse Sinfonia Concertante 14.7.1965 Cheltenham
Peter Racine Fricker Symphony No.4 14.2.1967 Cheltenham
Thea Musgrave Concerto for Orchestra 8.3.1968 Royal Festival Hall
Richard Rodney Bennett Piano Concerto 19.9.1968 Birmingham
Richard Henninger Catena 5.3.1970 Birmingham
Kenneth Leighton Piano Concerto No.3 11.3.1970 Wolverhampton
Peter Dickinson Transformations 3.7.1970 Cheltenham
John McCabe Symphony No.2* 25.9.1971 Birmingham
Humphrey Searle Labyrinth 18.11.1971 Birmingham
Anthony Gilbert Ghost and Dream Dancing 19.9.1974 Birmingham
Nicola LeFanu Columbia Falls 20.11.1975 Birmingham
Richard Rodney Bennett Violin Concerto 25.3.1976 Birmingham
John Mayer Mandala ki Raga Sangeet 17.2.1977 Birmingham
John Casken Tableaux des Trois Ages 29.9.1977 Birmingham
Christopher Brown Triptych (3 Symph'c Pieces after Dürer) 7.12.1978 Birmingham
John Tavener Palintropos, for Piano and Orchestra 1.3.1979 Birmingham
Roger Marsh Still (as far as may be) 13.11.1980 Birmingham
Paul Patterson Concerto for Orchestra 12.11.1981 Birmingham
John Joubert Gong-Tormented Sea 29.4.1982 Birmingham
Toru Takemitsu Vers l'arc-en-ciel, Palma 2.10.1984 Birmingham
Mark Anthony Turnage Three Screaming Popes* 5.10.1989 Birmingham
Robin Holloway Seascape and Harvest 29.4.1986 Birmingham
Tristan Murail Time and time again 21.1.1986 Birmingham
Alexander Goehr Eve Dreams in Paradise 14.3.1989 Birmingham
Robin Holloway The Spacious Firmament 21.1.1992 Birmingham
Sofia Gubaidulina Zeitgestalten (Figures of Time) 29.11.1994 Birmingham
Judith Weir Forest* 13.12.1995 Birmingham
Thomas Adès Asyla* 1.10.1997 Birmingham
Erkki Sven Tüür Exodus* 26.11.1999 Birmingham
John Joubert Nativity Prelude 21.12.2004 Birmingham
Tansy Davies Streamlines 18.02.2007 Birmingham
Fyfe Dangerfield In Wait 11.10.2007 Birmingham
Colin Matthews Violin Concerto 10.2009 Birmingham


* Available on CD:

Bliss, Meditations on a Theme by John Blow, CBSO/Rignold
Lyrita SRCD 254

Tippett, Piano Concerto, Steven Osborne BBC Scottish SO/Brabbins
Hyperion CD A67461/2

McCabe, Symphony No 2, CBSO/Fremaux
EMI 556818-2

Turnage, Three Screaming Popes, CBSO/Rattle
EMI TSP 2 04681 2

Weir, Forest, BBC SO/Brabbins
NMC D137

Adès, Asyla, CBSO/Rattle
EMI 556818-2

Tuur, Exodus
ECM 472 497-2


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