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Timothy Brown rehearsing the
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BackBeat Percussion Ensemble made music at Netherhall School, counting all the way
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2006 Festival
The 2006 Festival was built around a theme of Mozart, Maths and Music. It received tremendous praise and had record attendances.
“Though it happens only every three years, the Cambridge Music Festival is a stunningly rich 21 days of music-making, mixing university groups with top-notch pros. An innovation this year has been to get a professional orchestra, the London Mozart Players, to live and work for a week in the pub, schools and homes of a Cambridgeshire village, Swavesey. That culminated last night in a concert involving 150 locals, of all ages and abilities, in a specially created piece. There are few more urgent tasks for classical music than bridging this divide between the profession and amateurs, whether performers or listeners" [Richard Morrison, The Times]
The programme celebrated the Mozart anniversary and Cambridge's famous mathematicians with a programme which explored the links between music and maths. It had music from the days of Isaac Newton, and a concert chosen by his successor, Professor Stephen Hawking.
Other concerts and workshops explored the statistics of Mozart's Dice Minuet, the maths of jazz harmony and music built on numbers, from Bach's Art of Fugue to Berg's Violin Concerto.
We welcomed international artists such as Viktoria Mullova, Katia Labeque, Michael Collins, Tina May, John Lill, the Brodsky and Endellion String Quartets and many more.
We began with The Big Bang in the Grafton and ended with
Ellington's Sacred Music in Ely.
“Though it happens only every three years, the Cambridge Music Festival is a stunningly rich 21 days of music-making, mixing university groups with top-notch pros. An innovation this year has been to get a professional orchestra, the London Mozart Players, to live and work for a week in the pub, schools and homes of a Cambridgeshire village, Swavesey. That culminated last night in a concert involving 150 locals, of all ages and abilities, in a specially created piece. There are few more urgent tasks for classical music than bridging this divide between the profession and amateurs, whether performers or listeners" [Richard Morrison, The Times]
The programme celebrated the Mozart anniversary and Cambridge's famous mathematicians with a programme which explored the links between music and maths. It had music from the days of Isaac Newton, and a concert chosen by his successor, Professor Stephen Hawking.
Other concerts and workshops explored the statistics of Mozart's Dice Minuet, the maths of jazz harmony and music built on numbers, from Bach's Art of Fugue to Berg's Violin Concerto.
We welcomed international artists such as Viktoria Mullova, Katia Labeque, Michael Collins, Tina May, John Lill, the Brodsky and Endellion String Quartets and many more.
We began with The Big Bang in the Grafton and ended with
Ellington's Sacred Music in Ely.
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Cambridge Young Musicians 2006 gave the first of our Lunchtime PI concerts |
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You can see the whole range of the 2006 programme here. |
