Some Happy Snippets Of Lyre Playing Glory

Michael Levy's music will once again be used to add beauty and depth to some interesting subjects – see the links below!

My lyre music is to feature at the Royal Ontario Museum!

I am pleased to announce that my new arrangement of Dr Richard Dumbrill's interpretation of the 3400 Hurrian Hymn (Text H6) is to be used in support of a new exhibition, "Mesopotamia", to be held at the Royal Ontario Museum, between June 22, 2013 to January 5, 2014...I just wish I could leave the rain ravaged UK to be there to see it!

43 Seconds of Lyre Playing "Glory"!

There will be 43 seconds of my (barely noticeable!) background lyre music playing "glory" again this Wednesday, 5th June at 23.45 GMT, on the repeat of episode 2 of Waldemar Januszczak's BBC4 television documentary series "The Dark Ages An Age of Light"...and an entire nano-second of blazing televised stardom with my name in the credits at the end!!! 

The 43 second clip (which I spent an entire day travelling to be filmed for the sadly unused film shoot at the Ancient Technology Centre in Dorset!), is of my arrangement of the ancient Greek music fragment, "Lament of Simonides", merging into my own composition "Ancient Visions" at the end (the clip of my lyre playing can be heard towards the end of the episode, in between some relentless waffle about Goths & Visigoths etc!) 

A few precious nano-seconds of Corwen Broch's awesome Anglo-Saxon lyre-playing can also be heard - episode 2 of the series is also available to watch now, on BBC iPlayer:

http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/p00zbtmp

Don't blink - or you may just miss it!!

Those Darned Visigoths

Michael Levy's video clip on BBC didn't go quite as planned, though he did get some background music in (apparently while someone is holding forth about Visigoths). But fear not, you can see the entire clip. Just follow the link Michael sent along.  Here's what Michael has to say about the experience:

Thanks for the moral support - attempting to recreate the music of the ancient world can sometimes be a very frustrating, lonesome task! I just wish the producer had told me the facts...before I launched my mass email & website campaigns about the televised performance!

I might not have had my tantalizingly close live TV performance moment yet, but in the meantime, here is a free download link to the actual HD video file of the bonus out-take of my lyre & I from the music shoot for the BBC 4 documentary series "The Dark Ages An Age of Light" - the clip that the editor decided to leave out of the actual documentary in favour of a relatively rubbish 43 second clip of barely noticeable background music (during incessant waffling monologue about the Goths & Visigoths etc, towards the end of epsiode 2!!):

http://www.mediafire.com/?scbn6xyb5wymh5d

I will also be sending the link to everyone subscribed to my website mailing list.  If you are able to "spread the word" about this free video download link, this would be greatlly apreciated - so that some day, somehow, my retro lyre & I will transform the miserable modern world into a whole new dimension of meaningful mellowness...BRING IT ON!!! ;o)  

The Dark Ages: An Age Of Light

Mistake in the date of my first televised BBC performance!

[Michael Levy offers this slight correction]

Further to my last email campaigin about my first ever televised performance with my lyre on the new BBC4 series, The Dark Ages An Age of Light...

As the first episde was all about the end of the Roman Empire; after receiving a reminder email from the producer about the date of the broadcast of the first episode of the 4-part series, I had assumed that this would be the episode to feature my attempt to recreate the lost music of ancient Rome - after sending out email campaigns to everyone on my mailing lists, over 1000 friends on Facebook (& every family member I could conceive of!), I did not appear in the first episode!!!

I now have the correct details of my first ever live televised BBC performance, direct from the producer herself - my lyre & I will be appearing in Episode 2 of "The Dark Ages An Age of Light" - first broadcast on Tuesday 4th December, 9pm GMT on BBC 4 & a few days later, all around the world on BBC iPlayer.

Just to confirm, direct from the producer, I will be appearing in episode 2 of  "The Dark Ages An Age of Light", entitled "What the Barbarians Did for Us":

http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b01p65b9

Here is a link to one of the outtakes of the film shoot:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oa4BprGK9ck

They probably won't be using this out take in the series (there is a bit of aircraft noise towards the end of the video, which can be deteced if you listen with headphones!)

NB! More news - tracks from my albums "King David's Lyre; Eches of Ancient Israel", "Lyre of the Levites" & "The Ancient Biblical Lyre" are to feature in the iTunes Podcast show "The Podcast History of Our World" by Rob Monaco within the next few weeks! The free podcast series to use my music, will feature new episodes detailing the history of the
Hebrews/Israelites.

https://itunes.apple.com/us/podcast/podcast-history-our-world/id558333993

Thank you for your patience, everyone - the best things in life are worth waiting for...