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Cambridge Music
Festival 2009
Music and Evolution
8 - 29 November 2009
Judge Business their inspirational enthusiasm can
School. be infectious, and it has certainly
kept me going during the ups and
The theme of this downs of festival management.
year’s Festival It’s going to be great to welcome
is Music and them back, especially for my last
Evolution, and the concert of all, which includes
Cambridge Music Festival, the
diary is packed music I love by Mozart, Schubert
city’s largest and most diverse
with concerts which explore how and Vaughan Williams.’
musical event which takes place
music has evolved, invite you to
every three years, has announced
compose with DNA, find out how
an exciting series of concerts for
young children learn music, and
2009.
Highlights for 2009:
mirror the discoveries of HMS
Beagle with an exploration of
A rich and varied programme -
• free concerts and workshops
South American music, tangos
including folk and jazz concerts as
at the Grafton with the world-
from Argentina, and piano music
well as classical - boasts a wider
famous Elastic Band, samba in
and jazz from Brazil. 2009 is a
range of music than ever before
the Market Square, Georgian
landmark year in many ways
and builds on the extraordinary
choir Chela on ice on Parker’s
and, as well as paying tribute to
success of the 2006 Festival,
Piece, and busking at Park and
Darwin, the Festival celebrates
Ride stops
the anniversaries of Purcell,
• a choral celebration of the
Handel, Haydn and Mendelssohn,
University at 800, which
and marks 800 years of
includes Christopher Brown’s
Cambridge University and 900 of
setting of A Five-Gated Well,
Ely Cathedral.
a collection of specially written
poetry by Archbishop Rowan
2009 is also founder and Director
Williams
Gillian Perkins’s last festival at
• a collaboration between poet
the helm; one of the features of
Wendy Cope and the Endellion
Gillian’s twenty years in charge
String Quartet
of the Cambridge Music Festival
• The London Community
has been her support for young,
Gospel Choir raising the roof in
talented musicians while they are
Newmarket
students in the city, and many of
• Haydn’s The Creation in King’s,
them - now top class performers
which broke box office records
with the Choir of King’s College
on the international stage - will
and was shortlisted for two
and the Academy of Ancient
be welcomed back for the
prestigious national awards. There
Music
University’s special anniversary
are multiple events taking place
• a four-week residency and
year. Returning alumni include
each day from 8 - 29 November,
concert celebrating folk music
Andrew Kennedy, Elin Manahan
and they range from superb
from the Fens
Thomas, Tom Poster, Magnus
classical concerts in King’s, St
• plenty of opportunities to take
Johnston and Matthew Schellhorn.
John’s and other Cambridge
part, including a ‘Come and
venues, to free events for families
Sing’ Handel’s Messiah
‘In each and every festival, young
in less conventional settings such
• a programme of South
student musicians give us a
as the Grafton, Parker’s Piece,
American Music performed by
foretaste of their future careers,’
Park and Ride stops, and the
Joanna MacGregor
Gillian says. ‘In a very real sense,
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