Call for Music Leader Trainees

Posted: Wednesday 6 July 2011

Man High SCORE
A Love Music / Glasgow Concert Halls collaboration
The Man High SCORE Project

Love Music/Glasgow Concert Hall's have 8 trainee posts available and are looking for applications from young, motivated musicians who:

• are interested in exploring the possibilities of a career as a musician or music worker / educator
• are able to demonstrate a desire for training in specialist music leadership
• have broad musical knowledge and interests
• have interest in music technologies
• have excellent communication skills
• are able to undergo a full Scottish Disclosure background check

Background of Man High
A Glasgow Concert Halls co-commissioned, this is a remarkable and adventurous new work from the award winning team Stephen Deazley (composer) and Martin Parker (sound designer). The work to be performed by Deazley’s ensemble, Music at the Brewhouse, is inspired by the awe-inspiring bravery of Space pioneer – Joseph Kittinger, with original documentary footage of the jump from the US Airforce archives. The piece will be premiered on Saturday 24th September as part of the UNESCO City of Music family day - SPACE.

About Man High
On 16 August 1960 at 07:00, Joseph Kittinger, kitted up in a pressurized suit and parachute, stood 32 kilometres above the New Mexico desert, on the edge of space, racing upwards in an open gondola attached to a hot air balloon. Then… he stepped out and for the next 13 minutes 45 seconds he fell to earth. He travelled at speeds approaching 614 mph breaking the sound barrier and reaching terminal velocity.

The dangers faced by Kittinger were extraordinary. His leap from space remains one of the pinnacles of human achievements, mirrored by Kittinger’s own brief awakening as a metaphysical poet. Touching down from a near death experience in a practise jump he uttered the words “I am impossibly, wonderfully alive”.

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