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  • Sibelius at ROUGOL, Monday 17th April 2023

    From ROUGOL@21:1/5 to All on Wed Apr 12 04:37:51 2023
    The next meeting of the RISC OS User Group Of London will be:

    History of Sibelius
    Presented by Ben Finn, Sibelius co-author

    Monday 17th April 2023, 7:45pm

    The Duke of Sussex (upstairs in the Chichester Room from 6.30pm)
    23 Baylis Road, London, SE1 7AY
    https://rougol.jellybaby.net/venue.html

    *This is an in-person only meeting, no Zoom this month*

    https://rougol.jellybaby.net/meetings/


    Sibelius is a world famous musical score writing program that was first released for RISC OS in 1993, having been developed over many years by
    brothers Ben and Jonathan Finn while they were at university. Widely
    praised for its speed of operation and the quality of its output, many institutions such as the Royal Academy of Music bought RiscPCs simply to
    run Sibelius.

    With the downfall of Acorn, Sibelius was ported to Windows and MacOS and
    went on to even greater worldwide success, becoming the world's largest
    selling music notation program. In 2006 the company was bought by Avid,
    and in 2012 the UK Sibelius office was closed down.

    At this month's meeting we are very pleased to welcome original co-author
    Ben Finn, who will be joining us in the (newly refurbished) pub to talk
    about how Sibelius first came about, what happened along the way, and give
    some technical details on its development. He is also happy to answer any questions before or after the main presentation, so do come along for a
    chat over a pint and some food.

    We will have Sibelius (RISC OS version of course) running on the big
    screen along with some sample printed musical scores. There will also be a keyboard linked up via USB MIDI, so everyone can see and hear Sibelius put through its paces!

    Note: this meeting is in-person only, no Zoom session this month.

    Directions to the venue by car and public transport are on the website:

    https://rougol.jellybaby.net/venue.html

    If you need any further information, please contact us as below.

    RISC OS User Group Of London info@rougol.jellybaby.net https://rougol.jellybaby.net/ @rougol 07970 211 629


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