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Bridge Project Students Perform at Handel House!
What do you get if you put 10 young musicians from Awards for Young Musicians, three Bridge Project violinists and a couple of English Chamber Orchestra players in Handel’s House? A brilliant concert!
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a day in the life of an lmm award holder ...
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The LMM Awards provide a rich variety of experiences for our young soloists to help them develop their skills as young professionals, not only on the concert platform but in all areas of their work. The life of an LMM Award Holder is nothing if not varied, as Benjamin Beilman’s 24 hours in the UK shows!... read more
Bridge Project visits In Harmony Liverpool!
Very early last Friday morning a group of Bridge Project children and staff set off to Liverpool on a special Bridge to the Community visit to see the In Harmony project at Faith Primary School. Meeting us there was LMM Award Holder Hyeyoon Park who, having already performed with the Royal Liverpool Philharmonic the previous night was already taking part in the school’s daily Shake up and Sing session!... read more
Bridge Project Students celebrate Royal Philharmonic Society's 200th Anniversary!
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Five Bridge Project students took part in the filming of 'My Music:Your Music', a series of interviews with young musicians created as part of the Royal Philharmonic Society's 200th Anniversary Celebrations.... read more
lmm recommends | 24 january 2013
elgar: english visionary | Sat 26 | 7:30 pm | royal festival hall
Sir Mark Elder conducts a performance of Elgar’s choral masterpiece The Dream of Gerontius. The combination of orchestra, choir and vocal soloists creates a large scale work, full of passion and virtuosity. The soloists for this performance are Sarah Connolly - mezzo-soprano, Paul Groves – tenor and Brindley Sherratt – bass. Composed by Elgar in 1900, the music is set to the text from the poem by Cardinal Newman, which follows the journey of a pious man's soul from his deathbed to his judgment before God and settling into Purgatory.
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Bbc symphony orchestra | fri 18 jan | 7:30 pm | barbican
The BBC Symphony Orchestra, and Long Yu, one of China’s leading conductors, present an evening of lively music on the theme of London. The opening piece is Elgar’s Overture ‘Cockaigne’ (In London Town) and the concert closes with a performance of Haydn’s Symphony No. 104 ‘London’, written during his last stay in London. Cellist Li-Wei Qin features in the London premiere of Reflet d’un temps disparu, a new work by Chinese-French composer Qigang Chen. The orchestra will also present the world premiere of The London Citizen Exceedingly Injured by Raymond Yiu, which takes musical ideas from Elgar’s Cockaigne Overture and the nursery rhyme ‘Oranges and Lemons’.
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