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Music Festival Intern Hannah Ross writes about being a Shetlander, the Music Festival, The Sound of Music, and everything in-between…
As a Shetlander, coming to work at the Cheltenham Music Festival is a bit of an adventure, and I don’t expect to find too many reminders of home (even if we Shetlanders have a habit of turning up all over the globe), but a reminder of home I did find, slap bang in the middle of the festival brochure (hooray!). Catriona McKay, while not a Shetlander herself, wrote The Swan LK243 when on board the newly restored Fifie boat The Swan LK243 with internationally renowned Shetland fiddle group Fiddlers Bid. I’d be hugely surprised to find the Bid on the line up for a classical music festival, but I think Catriona’s piece will make pleasing contrast to rest of programme by Aquarelle Guitar Quartet, which also features works by Rimsky-Korsakov, Piazzolla, and a selection of contemporary classical composers.
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We’ve tagged this post with Alfie Boe, Alina Ibragimova, Aquarelle Guitar Quartet, Brent Barrett, Calefax Reed Quintet, Catriona McKay, Cedric Tiberghien, David Campbell, Festival Academy, Hannah Ross, Imogen Cooper, Joby Burgess, Kim Criswell, music, norway, Ole Bull, Parabola Arts Centre, Powerplant, Robert Schumann, Rodgers and Hammerstein, Shetland, Solstice Quartet, Steven Isserlis, Tewkesbury Abbey, Tewkesbury Abbey Schola Cantorum, The Sound of Music, TOEAC on Wednesday 30 June 2010.
