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James Wood
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James Wood (b. 1953) is a British conductor, composer, musicologist, and former percussionist who currently lives in Germany. He was Nadia Boulanger's student in Paris in the early seventies and graduated from the Cambridge University in 1975. Wood also studied percussion and conducting at the Royal Academy of Music in London and took private lessons from Nicholas Cole. After serving as a conductor of the Schola Cantorum of Oxford from 1977 to 1981, James Wood founded the New London Chamber Choir and acted as its principal conductor until 2007. During the twenty-six years with NLCC, he premiered numerous little-known choral works from a wide range of composers, such as Tona Scherchen, Toru Takemitsu, Harrison Birtwistle, Lili Boulanger, Ruth Crawford Seeger, Luigi Dallapiccola, Frank Denyer, György Kurtág, György Ligeti, Almeida Prado, Giacinto Scelsi, Alfred Schnittke, Claude Vivier, and Walter Zimmermann. Wood commissioned many original works from contemporary composers, including Forms of Emptiness, Ashes Dance Back, and The Summer Cloud's Awakening by Jonathan Harvey, Alejandro Viñao's Epitafios, Calacas Imaginarias by Javier Alvarez, Iannis Xenakis' Knephas, Luca Francesconi's Let me Bleed, Simon Bainbridge's Eicha, Roberto Sierra's Cantos Populares and Stramm Gedichte by David Sawer. He also wrote a few pieces for the choir: Incantamenta for 24 solo voices, Phainomena for 18 solo voices, 17 instruments, and electronics, and a large-scale church opera Hildegard for sol
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The Last Journey
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Excalibur I: La Légende Des Celtes (By Alan Simon)
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Excalibur II: L'Anneau Des Celtes (By Alan Simon)
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Excalibur: Le concert mythique by Alan Simon (Live)
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Oak House
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Jodo
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Simple Things
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Pierre de la Rue: Missa pro defunctis - Josquin des Prez: Hercules Dux Ferrariae, La Deploration de Johannes Ockeghem
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London Review Podcasts
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Taste for Gold
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Ruth Crawford Seeger: Music for Small Orchestra; Study in Mixed Accents; Three Songs; Three Chants; String Quartet; Two Ricercari; Andante for String Orchestra; Rissolty Rossolty; Suite for Wind Quintet / Charles Seeger: John Hardy