by Hamish Temporal, June 10, 2009
This year the Oundle Festival of Music and Drama clocked up its 100th season in late March. It was a wonderful event that produced some excellent performances, including choirs, recitations and instrumental performances. The festival is aimed at all ages and abilities and entrants come from all across the area to take part.
A festival spokesperson said: “Although it is a competitive festival, the emphasis is on performing in a friendly atmosphere, and at the same time receiving helpful criticism from adjudicators who are experts in their field and who will encourage all participants to improve their skills.” Continued…
by Staff Writer,
Since 1995, Clive Oakes has been breathing new life into a range of musical instruments, repairing mainly brass and woodwind instruments in Oundle and its surrounding areas. Alongside running his company Cat Design, Development & Production, Mr. Oakes repairs instruments as a ‘paying hobby’, helping musicians young and old to continue playing their various trombones, saxophones and flutes.
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by Staff Writer,
Prince William School Choir recorded a major achievement at the Oundle festival of Music and Drama recently, winning the 18 years and under class for School Choirs, with an outstanding mark of 91. Among the many plaudits the choir received from the judges, there was praise for their excellent stylistic performance, musical approach and balance, and crisp rhythm and phrasing. Continued…
by Leonie Griffin,
The Fourth Annual T S Eliot Festival at Little Gidding will take place on the weekend of Saturday 27 June and Sunday 28 June 2009.
The festival is a major literary and musical celebration of the life and work of Nobel Prize winning writer Thomas Stearns Eliot (1888-1965). The 2009 festival features an expanded programme, with students, lecturers and guests from the TS Eliot International Summer School coming to participate in a weekend of lectures, discussion, readings and music that offer the opportunity for festival-goers to share their interests and enthusiasms amidst the splendid setting of Little Gidding Continued…
