14-1041: Michael Parsons may refer to: Michael Parsons (composer) (born 1938), British composer Michael Parsons (cricketer) (born 1984), English cricketer Michael Parsons (engineer) (1928–2021), designer of major suspension bridges Michael Parsons (Australian footballer) (1960–2009), Australian rules player Michael Parsons, 6th Earl of Rosse (1906–1979), Irish peer Mike Parsons (surfer) (born 1965), American surfer Michael Parsons (Bermudian footballer) (born 1979), Bermudian soccer player Mike Parsons (Barchester Healthcare) (born 1950), British entrepreneur, founder of Barchester Healthcare Michael Parsons (figure skater) (born 1995), American ice dancer Michael Parsons (singer) (born 1994), British singer from District3 Mike Parsons (born 1942), British former CEO of outdoor equipment company Karrimor See also [ edit ] Mike Parson (born 1955), Governor of Missouri since 2018 [REDACTED] Topics referred to by
28-622: A department of UCL's Faculty of Arts and Humanities . The school traces its roots back to 1868 when lawyer and philanthropist Felix Slade (1788–1868) bequeathed funds to establish three Chairs in Fine Art , to be based at Oxford University, Cambridge University and University College London , where six studentships were endowed. Distinguished past teachers include Henry Tonks , Wilson Steer , Randolph Schwabe , William Coldstream , Andrew Forge , Lucian Freud , John Hilliard , Bruce McLean , Alfred Gerrard and Phyllida Barlow . Edward Allington
42-679: Is different from Wikidata All article disambiguation pages All disambiguation pages Michael Parsons (composer) Michael Edward Parsons (born 12 December 1938) is a British composer . Since the 1960s, when he met Cornelius Cardew and helped found the Scratch Orchestra , Parsons has been strongly associated with the English school of experimental music. He was born in Bolton and studied at St John's College, Oxford before taking up composition lessons under Peter Racine Fricker at
56-602: The Arts Council of England , which took a critical look at interactivity with participants from a variety of disciplines, including psychology, architecture, and computer science . Throughout 1998, SCEMFA collaborated with Channel 4 UK to organise Cached , a monthly event held at the Institute of Contemporary Arts , London. Funded by the Arts Council, this series investigated the conceptual and practical issues of producing art for
70-503: The Royal College of Music in London in 1961. In the 1960s he met Cornelius Cardew; Parsons attended Cardew's experimental music classes at Morley College since 1968. In 1969 Cardew, Parsons and fellow composer Howard Skempton founded the Scratch Orchestra , an experimental free ensemble devoted to performing contemporary music. The Orchestra broke up in early 1970s, partly as a result of
84-578: The Great War (Old Street Publishing, 2009) – included the students Dora Carrington , Mark Gertler , Paul Nash , C.R.W. Nevinson and Stanley Spencer . Another cherished period followed the Second World War, under the directorship of William Coldstream , who brought in Lucian Freud to teach, and whose students included Paula Rego , Michael Andrews , and the filmmaker Lorenza Mazzetti . Coldstream
98-617: The Scratch Orchestra, and, since the Portsmouth years, " Systems " artists such as Malcolm Hughes and Jeffrey Steele . Slade School of Art The UCL Slade School of Fine Art (informally The Slade ) is the art school of University College London (UCL) and is based in London, England. It has been ranked as the UK's top art and design educational institution. The school is organised as
112-425: The goal of contributing to debate on national and international levels. The Slade had previously been home to Malcolm Hughes's Computer and Experimental Department in the 1970s. In 1997 SCEMFA presented Collision , a public lecture series by artists, writers, and curators working with interactivity , telematics , and digital works. This exhibition was followed by Spontaneous Reaction , a week-long seminar funded by
126-624: The internet through a series of artists presentations. The Slade art collection was started when the yearly prizes awarded to top students was combined with a collection scheme in 1897 and the Summer Composition Prize and the Figure and Head Painting Prizes began to be kept by the school. Works by students and staff of the Slade School of Fine Art form the basis of the UCL Art museum today. In
140-688: The politization led by Cardew. Parsons was among the Orchestra members who refused to be associated with the Maoist politics Cardew was propagating, and left. In 1970 Parsons started working as visiting lecturer in the Fine Art department of the Portsmouth Polytechnic and in the Slade School of Art , University College London . In 1974 he and Skempton formed a duo to perform their own works. In 1996–97 Parsons
154-409: The same term This disambiguation page lists articles about people with the same name. If an internal link led you here, you may wish to change the link to point directly to the intended article. Retrieved from " https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Michael_Parsons&oldid=1057719069 " Category : Human name disambiguation pages Hidden categories: Short description
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#1732870070054168-535: Was Professor of Fine Art and Head of Graduate Sculpture until his death in 2017. Two of its most important periods were immediately before, and immediately after, the turn of the twentieth century, described by Henry Tonks as its two 'crises of brilliance'. The first included the students Augustus John , William Orpen and Percy Wyndham Lewis ; the second – which has been chronicled in David Boyd Haycock 's A Crisis of Brilliance: Five Young British Artists and
182-480: Was a bi-fellow at Churchill College, Cambridge. During this time he organised concerts at Kettle's Yard , Cambridge . Since the early 1960s Parsons has also been active as a writer on music; his writings include a number of important articles on contemporary English composers. Parsons' music is influenced by Anton Webern , composers of the so-called New York school ( John Cage , Morton Feldman and Christian Wolff ), various English composers he met through Cardew and
196-550: Was responsible for the creation of the Slade Film Department , the first in any British university, in 1960, with Thorold Dickinson as chief lecturer. Filmmakers associated with the Slade Film Department include Derek Jarman and Peter Whitehead . The Slade Centre for Electronic Media in Fine Art (SCEMFA) was opened in 1995. The centre provides opportunities for research into electronic media and fine art with
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