Summer Notes - A Musical Almanac

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Join us this summer for a fortnight of live music, spend Thursday evening enjoying A Musical Almanac: Summer Notes in Cumbria including a post performance meet the musicians.

Jack McNeill / clarinet and bass clarinet

Eleanor McIntosh / soprano

+ guest musician

This performance sees some of Cumbria's finest chamber musicians come together to start a new tradition - a musical almanac. You can expect to hear beautiful miniatures, specially commissioned works from leading composers, reworkings by the ensemble of traditional folk music and familiar classics - all with a particular focus on the time of year.

Expect to hear a new arrangement of Vaughan Williams' Silent Noon alongside music by Ella Jarman-Pinto, Kerry Andrew, Liz Johnson, Kirsty Devaney, Sadie Harrison, Benjamin Britten's folk songs and a world premiere from David Matthews among others…

Conjuring a musical picture of the celestial and earthly connections to the seasons and to place, music of the tides, stars and human connection.

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