24-397: John Alldis (10 August 1929 – 20 December 2010) was an English chorus-master and conductor. Alldis was educated at King's College School, Cambridge and Felsted . He then returned to King's College, Cambridge as a choral scholar under Boris Ord from 1949 to 1952. After leaving Cambridge University , Alldis quickly became highly regarded as a choral conductor. In 1966,
48-560: A Marian visitation of the University in 1557 which inspected the "chorusters chamber and schole" and took away a number of books deemed to be unsuitable. The school has moved location several times since its inception. By 1693 it was located in a building to the south-east of the chapel, next to King's Parade . In this year that building was demolished and replaced with what was known as the New Brick Building which continued to house
72-416: A number that would gradually increase over the coming decades. From 1976 girls were admitted, and as the school expanded, it opened a pre-preparatory department. The boarding programme is open to boys and girls. Year 4 and 5 Choristers are weekly boarders. Year 6 to 8 Choristers are full boarders, with the option to spend Friday nights at home (until Saturday lunchtime), while other boarders return home for
96-944: The Groupe Vocal de France , recording music by Francis Poulenc and Gabriel Fauré . From 1989 to 1990, he was music director and consultant for the Cameran Singers in Israel and briefly became guest conductor of the Hallé Choir in Manchester. From 1978 to 1987, he conducted the American Choral Symposium in Manhattan, Kansas . From 1985 to 1998, he was a permanent guest conductor with the Netherlands Chamber Choir , with whom he made several CDs including English Choral Music on
120-647: The London Symphony Orchestra engaged him to form and direct its first standing choral group. However, he switched to the London Philharmonic Choir in 1969, with which he remained until 1982, preparing choruses for many celebrated performances with Adrian Boult , Otto Klemperer , Leopold Stokowski , Colin Davis , Bernard Haitink , Karl Richter , Georg Solti , and Zubin Mehta . In 1962, Alldis founded
144-645: The Classicprint label. In 1977, he recorded Sounds of Glory for Arcade Records, a celebration of choral classics, which won a gold disc. Alldis conducted a number of other ensembles, in music ranging from the Renaissance to the present. From 1966 to 1979, he led the choir of the Guildhall School of Music and Drama . From 1971 to 1977, he served as joint chief conductor of Radio Denmark , mainly leading its Danish State Radio Chorus . From 1979 to 1983, he conducted
168-983: The Globe label. From 1989 to 1997, he guest-conducted the Tokyo Philharmonic Chorus and the Central Philharmonic Society of China in Beijing. In 2002, he conducted the Lyon Opera in the first performance of Messa Sulenna by the Corsican composer Jean-Paul Poletti . From 1975 to 2003, John Alldis served on the Ralph Vaughan Williams Trust , and from 1971 to 2004 he conducted the Wimbledon Symphony Orchestra. Alldis won Grammy Awards for his work with Sir Adrian Boult and Sir Georg Solti,
192-477: The Opéra in recent years are the stage director, Laurent Pelly , and the soprano, Natalie Dessay . Past principal conductors at the company have included André Cluytens , John Eliot Gardiner , Kent Nagano , Louis Langrée , Iván Fischer , and Kazushi Ono . Since the start of the 2017–2018 season, the company's current principal conductor ( chef permanent ) of the company is Daniele Rustioni , whose appointment to
216-522: The chapel was opened and the school was housed in rooms within it. By the 1870s in response to improving musical standards in other English choirs, it was decided to open a boarding house to accommodate choristers from outside Cambridge in order to widen the field from which selection of choristers could take place. This was opened on the current site in West Road in 1878, and by 1880 all 16 choristers were boarders, and there were also 8 non-chorister day pupils,
240-602: The city centre. It was founded to educate the choristers in the King's College Choir during the 15th century. Although no longer located on College grounds, it remains an integral part of the Chapel 's musical tradition and is still governed by and receives some funding from the College. The school is part of the same historic foundation as Eton College . The most recent full integrated Independent Schools Inspectorate (ISI) inspection awarded
264-548: The first European performance of Stravinsky 's Requiem Canticles , conducted by Pierre Boulez . The choir's 1972 recording of Justin Connolly 's Verse , Op. 7b, was re-released in 2008 on the Lyrita label. The choir also participated in many opera recordings for Decca and RCA , featuring artists such as Luciano Pavarotti , Plácido Domingo , Janet Baker , Joan Sutherland and Kiri Te Kanawa . In 1970, Alldis directed his choir in
SECTION 10
#1732858611279288-422: The following year, and Moussorgsky 's Boris Godunov in 1913. In addition, many world premieres such as Arnold Schoenberg 's Erwartung (1967) have been presented. In the years after the 1969 appointment of Louis Erlo as general director, many innovative productions and premieres of both French operas and Twentieth Century operas have been staged. Two significant French artists who have been associated with
312-452: The grade "excellent" in all 9 categories. King's College was founded in 1441 by King Henry VI . By 1447 the full complement of 16 choristers had been recruited to sing in the chapel. They were likely educated by a fellow until the appointment of the first Informator Chorustarum (Master over the Choristers) in 1456, Robert Brantham. The existence of dedicated school rooms was recorded during
336-497: The house with the highest average merits winning a house party. The school began a link project with Sri Siddharta Dikkumbura school in Sri Lanka in 2007 initially as a response to the 2004 Indian Ocean earthquake and tsunami , after a visit there by the then headmaster, Nicholas Robinson, but the link quickly went beyond aid and became more of an academic link, with three yearly teacher exchanges and many more exchanges of work between
360-572: The last decade, is an opera company in Lyon , based and performing mostly at the Opéra Nouvel , an 1831 theater that was modernized and architecturally transformed in 1993. The inaugural performance of François-Adrien Boïeldieu 's La Dame blanche was given on 1 July 1831. The Nineteenth and Twentieth Centuries saw some significant French premieres of major operas including Richard Wagner 's Die Meistersinger in 1896, Giordano 's Andrea Chénier in
384-451: The post was announced in March 2015. The current choirmaster of the company is Philip White, since 2015. The company has an affiliated corps de ballet , Lyon Opera Ballet. As well, the company has a children's choir, La Maîtrise (masterclass), was created in 1990 to form a top-level choir of young soloists. Since 1993, it has a status similar to other French musical schools. A first theater
408-518: The professional, 16-member John Alldis Choir , which launched itself with the world premiere of Alexander Goehr 's A Little Cantata of Proverbs . Contemporary music figured importantly in its repertory, with first performances of works by Malcolm Williamson , Richard Rodney Bennett and Harrison Birtwistle , many of which were captured on the Argo label. In 1967, he prepared the John Alldis Choir for
432-549: The recording and the first performance of Pink Floyd 's prog rock suite " Atom Heart Mother ". In 1973, he directed the choir in the Westminster Abbey performance of Duke Ellington's Third Sacred Concert —a recording that was to be the penultimate one made by the great bandleader. He also conducted the London Philharmonic Choir and brass section in the recording of David Bedford 's Star Clusters , available on
456-457: The school through to the nineteenth century. In the 1820s during the rebuilding by William Wilkins, the brick building and adjoining Provost's Lodge were demolished, opening up a view of the chapel from the street. The outline of the foundations of the brick building can be seen on the lawn during long periods of hot dry weather. In 1828 the Wilkins building on the south side of the court opposite
480-592: The schools to learn more about each culture. King's often raises funds to help the school, and has sent musical instruments and sports equipment to the school in Sri Lanka as well. The following headteachers have served since 1878 when the school relocated to its present site in West Road: 52°12′14″N 0°06′23″E / 52.2039°N 0.1065°E / 52.2039; 0.1065 Lyon Opera The Opéra National de Lyon , marketed as Opéra de Lyon during
504-441: The weekend. Like many British schools, King's uses a house system. This is not a system related to boarding houses, of which there is only one at King's, but one of which pupils are placed into one of four houses, each named after a surrounding road or path. There are many inter-house competitions throughout the year in sports and academics, in the form of merits, awarded for good work, which are totalled and averaged each term, with
SECTION 20
#1732858611279528-532: Was an Honorary Fellow of Westminster Choir College, Princeton , and in 1994 was named a Chevalier de L'Ordre des Arts et des Lettres . He was married to the violinist and teacher Ursula Alldis, and had two sons, the jazz pianist Dominic Alldis and Robert. King%27s College School, Cambridge King's College School is a coeducational private preparatory school for pupils aged 4 to 13 in Cambridge , England, situated on West Road off Grange Road , west of
552-461: Was built here by Soufflot during the 18th century. Nevertheless, the theatre soon became too small and the architects Chenavard and Pollet rebuilt a brand new one in a neo-classical style in 1830. At the beginning of the 1980s, out of age and not meeting the needs any more, the Opera had to be renewed. A competition for architects was thus launched and won in 1986 by Jean Nouvel . The new Opera of Lyon
576-448: Was inaugurated in May 1993 and is now part of the international architectural heritage. Outside the opera house, Nouvel only kept the outer walls. He also dug new underground levels and added a semi-cylindrical dome that is used by dancers. On the opera house front wall, 8 muses have been kept in place (Uranie, the 9th one was removed to respect the symmetry of the building). The opera received
#278721