{"id":6745,"date":"2015-06-09T09:49:01","date_gmt":"2015-06-09T08:49:01","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/music-matters\/?p=6745"},"modified":"2015-06-09T09:49:01","modified_gmt":"2015-06-09T08:49:01","slug":"summer-music-week-the-first-two-days","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/music-matters\/2015\/06\/09\/summer-music-week-the-first-two-days\/","title":{"rendered":"Summer Music Week: the first two days"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Like a phoenix from the flames, Summer Music Week burst into life anew on Sunday; conductor <strong>Ian Swatman<\/strong> led the charge as the <strong>Big Band<\/strong> took to the Memorial Bandstand at Deal for a day filled with sunshine and swing, for which the band welcomed back vocalist and alumna,<strong> Steph Richardson<\/strong>.<\/p>\n<p>Yesterday, Day Two, saw the inaugural use of the department&#8217;s commissioned harpsichord in a feast of arias from several of the singing<strong> Scholars<\/strong> in <em>Operatic Heroines in Love; <\/em>from Mozart to Gluck, Saint-Saens, and Dvorak, a delighted audience was led on an exploration of love, lust and desire by <strong>Charley Tench<\/strong>, <strong>Charlotte Webb, Rowena Murrell, Ruth Webster, Kathi Kirschbaum, Livy Potter<\/strong>\u00a0and <strong>Kathryn Cox<\/strong>, which included Purcell&#8217;s <em>Dido&#8217;s Lament<\/em> with <strong>Faith Chan<\/strong> on cello and the<strong> Chamber Choir<\/strong> performing the dolorous &#8216;With drooping wings&#8217; chorus which follows the aria.<\/p>\n<div id='gallery-1' class='gallery galleryid-6745 gallery-columns-3 gallery-size-thumbnail'><figure class='gallery-item'>\n\t\t\t<div class='gallery-icon landscape'>\n\t\t\t\t<a href='https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/music-matters\/2015\/06\/09\/summer-music-week-the-first-two-days\/twitter5fc9d8e\/'><img width=\"150\" height=\"150\" src=\"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/music-matters\/files\/2015\/06\/Twitter5fc9d8e-150x150.jpg\" class=\"attachment-thumbnail size-thumbnail\" alt=\"\" loading=\"lazy\" \/><\/a>\n\t\t\t<\/div><\/figure><figure class='gallery-item'>\n\t\t\t<div class='gallery-icon landscape'>\n\t\t\t\t<a href='https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/music-matters\/2015\/06\/09\/summer-music-week-the-first-two-days\/wp_20150608_15_40_18_pro_edit\/'><img width=\"150\" height=\"150\" src=\"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/music-matters\/files\/2015\/06\/WP_20150608_15_40_18_Pro_edit-150x150.jpg\" class=\"attachment-thumbnail size-thumbnail\" alt=\"\" loading=\"lazy\" \/><\/a>\n\t\t\t<\/div><\/figure><figure class='gallery-item'>\n\t\t\t<div class='gallery-icon landscape'>\n\t\t\t\t<a href='https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/music-matters\/2015\/06\/09\/summer-music-week-the-first-two-days\/wp_20150608_17_48_45_pro\/'><img width=\"150\" height=\"150\" src=\"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/music-matters\/files\/2015\/06\/WP_20150608_17_48_45_Pro-150x150.jpg\" class=\"attachment-thumbnail size-thumbnail\" alt=\"\" loading=\"lazy\" \/><\/a>\n\t\t\t<\/div><\/figure>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\n<p>Summer Music continues all this week; details online <a href=\"http:\/\/www.kent.ac.uk\/music\/whatson.html?tab=june\" target=\"_blank\"><strong>here<\/strong><\/a>.<\/p>\n<ul class=\"kent-social-links\"><li><a href='http:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/music-matters\/2015\/06\/09\/summer-music-week-the-first-two-days\/&amp;t=Summer Music Week: the first two days' target='_blank'><i class='ksocial-facebook' title='Share via Facebook'><\/i><\/a><\/li><li><a href='http:\/\/twitter.com\/home?status=Summer Music Week: the first two days%20https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/music-matters\/2015\/06\/09\/summer-music-week-the-first-two-days\/' target='_blank'><i class='ksocial-twitter' title='Share via Twitter'><\/i><\/a><\/li><li><a href='https:\/\/plus.google.com\/share?url=https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/music-matters\/2015\/06\/09\/summer-music-week-the-first-two-days\/' target='_blank'><i class='ksocial-google-plus' title='Share via Google Plus'><\/i><\/a><\/li><li><a href='http:\/\/linkedin.com\/shareArticle?mini=true&amp;url=https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/music-matters\/2015\/06\/09\/summer-music-week-the-first-two-days\/&amp;title=Summer Music Week: the first two days' target='_blank'><i class='ksocial-linkedin' title='Share via Linked In'><\/i><\/a><\/li><li><a href='mailto:content=https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/music-matters\/2015\/06\/09\/summer-music-week-the-first-two-days\/&amp;title=Summer Music Week: the first two days' target='_blank'><i class='ksocial-email' title='Share via Email'><\/i><\/a><\/li><\/ul>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Like a phoenix from the flames, Summer Music Week burst into life anew on Sunday; conductor Ian Swatman led the charge as the Big Band took to the Memorial Bandstand at Deal for a day filled with sunshine and swing, for which the band welcomed back vocalist and alumna, Steph Richardson. Yesterday, Day Two, saw &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/music-matters\/2015\/06\/09\/summer-music-week-the-first-two-days\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Summer Music Week: the first two days<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":620,"featured_media":6746,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1111],"tags":[969,91607,139484,91603],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/music-matters\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6745"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/music-matters\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/music-matters\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/music-matters\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/620"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/music-matters\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6745"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/music-matters\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6745\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6749,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/music-matters\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6745\/revisions\/6749"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/music-matters\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/6746"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/music-matters\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6745"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/music-matters\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6745"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/music-matters\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6745"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}