1:30pm-3:00pm on Tuesday 17 March
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Emmanuel College, Chapel, St Andrew’s Street, CB2 3AP
In this workshop, we will explore how we perform and listen to music in the Western classical tradition, and how historical insight can inspire us to perform and listen differently. Professor Bettina Varwig (Faculty of Music) will be in conversation with a group of musicians, including the distinguished violinist Maggie Faultless (a leader of the Orchestra of the Age of Enlightenment; Becket Chair of Historical Performance, Royal Academy of Music) and the internationally renowned tenor Nicholas Mulroy.
We will play and sing our way through a range of music from the 17th and 18th centuries (Bach, Corelli, Purcell, Vivaldi) and discuss how this music takes shape gesturally and affectively in our musicians’ bodies, fingers and throats. We will invite our listeners, in turn, to attend resonantly with their whole bodies, and thereby tune into the power of this music to transform its participants in body, mind and spirit.
Performers:
Maggie Faultless (violin)
Rachel Stroud (violin)
Andrew Skidmore (cello)
Nicholas Mulroy (tenor)
