Musical Adventures In Time Travel

Michael Levy's music has been featured in The Sonic Enquirer. Read on!

Lyre, Lyre! The Sonic Inquirer

Hi Everyone!

 

I was pleased to stumble across a brand new article about my "Musical Adventures in Time Travel" in "The Sonic Inquirer" posted by Mike Mackey - here is the link to the article:

 

 http://www.sonicinquirer.com/2012/12/lyre-lyre/

 

It is a great feeling to see that my relentless efforts simply to get my virtually unknown music "out there" are, at last, bearing fruit!

 

Wishing everyone a healthy & happy 2013...

 

All the best!

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...

Michael Levy Strikes Again!

My last several posts have been about Michael Levy, because many exciting things seems to be happening for him at once. He is a master of the Lyre, with an emphasis on ancient music. My first introduction to this sort of music was the beautiful album, Harps Of The Ancient Temples, and I remain fascinated with it. So here's another happy announcement from Michael. Check out his website! Buy his music! Wallow in wonderfulness!

My First Televised, Live Performance on BBC4!

 Hi Eveyone! I am pleased to announce, that the first episode of Waldemar Januszczak's epic 4-part documentary series, "The Dark Ages An Age of Light"(which features my LIVE, TELEVISED, LYRE MUSIC, in my attempt to evoke the lost music of ancient Rome!) will be broadcast on BBC4 on Tuesday 27th of November at 9pm.

The remaining 3 episodes will follow every Tuesday until the 18th of December - there may also be a bit of my lyre music featured as background music during the series, which I submitted to the producer!

A week after the broadcasts here in the UK, the series can also be viewed all around the world on BBC iPlayer

Below is some unique bonus footage, kindly provided to me by the editor of the series of one of my performances, in which I attempt to evoke the sound of the lost music of ancient Rome:

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

The track I am playing in the video is "Ancient Visions" from my recently released album "Ancient Vibrations" - filmed here, in the incredibly evocative replica Iron Age Earth House, at the Cranborne Ancient Technology Centre in Dorset, UK.

 I may have finally found some more much needed fame this year, in my efforts to recreate the music of the ancient world...let's hope my television debut will hopefully, someday, lead to the fortune! I thankfully feel I have come a long way, since my voyage in "Musical Time Travel" began, with my first crudely recorded "antique webcam" recordings on my Youtube Channel, back in August 2006!

Kind Regards,

Michael 

More Breaking News For Michael Levy

More breaking news - I have my first televised performance coming up on
BBC4 on 27th November at 9pm (GMT) for a new documentary "The Dark Ages :
An Age of Light"! The series is also available to view, anywhere in the
world on BBC iPlayer. Here is the link to my bulletin with all the
details:

http://www.ancientlyre.com/news.html

The editor of the series kindly provided me with some unique video outtake
footage of one of my performances...filmed in the amaing replica Iron Age
"Earth House" at the Cranborne Ancient Technology Centre:

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

I have my first ever radio interview coming up soon, for a local station
in Germany - I will let you know the link to hear the broadcast once I
have it!

A Well Tuned Lyre

Hi Everyone!

I am pleased to announce the release of my new album, "A Well Tuned Lyre - The Just Intonation of Antiquity" on iTunes & Amazon:

Buy This Album From iTunes!

Buy This Album From Amazon! 

This album features new compositions for solo lyre, a heterophonic development of my earlier composition, "Apollo Lyre Lyre" & my new arrangements  of 5 examples of the actual surviving music of ancient Greece, with my lyre tuned to the beautifully pure just intonation of antiquity...

To download a free PDF Booklet of the detailed album notes, please click on the link here

Please "spread the word"!

Kind Regards,

Michael Levy

Michael Levy Will Be Featured On BBC 4

My Lyre Music To Be Featured on BBC Radio 4!

I am pleased to announce that my music is to feature on BBC Radio 4!

My arrangements for Biblical lyre, of the Klezmer melodies "Sherele" & "Ale Brider" from my album "Lyre of the Levites", are to be used in a ten-part "Book at Bedtime" series – THE LIARS’ GOSPEL by Naomi Adlerman - set in Roman-occupied Judea. "Sherele" will be used at the beginning of each show & "Ale Brider" at the end...

The first of the 10-part BBC Radio 4 "Book at Bedtime" series to feature the music from my album "Lyre of the Levites", will be first broadcast on 12th November at 22.45. The series can later be heard anywhere in the world, a week after the radio broadcasts on BBC iPlayer!

The full details about his series can be seen in the link to the BBC Radio website here

Please "spread the word"!

Kind Regards,

Michael Levy