{"id":9479,"date":"2019-06-07T12:21:55","date_gmt":"2019-06-07T11:21:55","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/music-matters\/?p=9479"},"modified":"2019-06-10T14:56:17","modified_gmt":"2019-06-10T13:56:17","slug":"summer-music-week-days-five-and-six","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/music-matters\/2019\/06\/07\/summer-music-week-days-five-and-six\/","title":{"rendered":"Summer Music Week: Days Five and Six"},"content":{"rendered":"

The relentless pace of Summer Music Week continues; Wednesday saw a roof-raising gala concert from the University Concert Band and Big Band under the baton of Ian Swatman entertaining a packed house. Prior to the concert, the sax quartet played on the foyer-stage, led by Peter Cook.<\/p>\n

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Sax appeal: Peter Cook, Megan Daniel, Owen Kerry, David Curtiss<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

And yesterday saw a celebration of chamber music in A Musical Miscellany, ranging from a fiercely-modern duet for two violins by Prokofiev to the first movement of Borodin’s String Quartet no.2, lively woodwind music by Seiber, a fragile aria by Copland and the String Sinfonia in not-quite-Mozart…<\/p>\n

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l-r: Owen Kerry, Charlotte Read, Helen Sotillo, Leon Schoonderwoerd<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
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Pianists Will Morgan and Kiyan Agadjani, with diligent page-turning from Jenny Pang<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
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l-r: Florence Nightingale Obote, Zaneta Balesevic, Molly Richetta, Ken Macdonald<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
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Soprano Alice Shires<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
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The String Sinfonia, directed by Flo Peycelon<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Plus post-performance selfies, of course…<\/p>\n

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Summer Music Week continues tonight with the premiere of Between Worlds<\/em> <\/strong>by composer\/violinist Anna Phoebe by the Chamber Choir and String Sinfonia, plus string music by Britten and P\u00e4rt.<\/p>\n