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We Are Withernsea!
Residents of Withnersea in the East Riding of Yorkshire performed their own original piece ‘We Are Withernsea’, composed with composer Richard Taylor, Camerata musicians Janet Fulton and Lynne Racz, and Remarkable Arts musician Mark Howley, to the sell out concert ‘Tea With Manchester Camerata’ on 18th October. Since January this year we have been working in Withernsea to engage with members of the local community to compose new material to be performed with the orchestra in local venues. This performance was the accumulation of the project, which was performed alongside the 13 piec... Read More
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Chetham’s School of Music Listening Project
Throughout the academic year we are delivering a project with Chetham’s School of Music which aims to support GCSE music pupils to improve their ‘listening’ skills and gain insights into new aspects of listening. The first stage of the project began in September; six Camerata musicians and six Chetham’s pupils joined together to plan a series of workshops for other high schools based on the topic of listening. The co-delivery team discussed how to act on feedback they had received from schools about the challenges of their listening exam and how they could encourage pupils to cons... Read More
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Nelson Mandela Day
In July, Camerata composer Richard Taylor and clarinettist Hannah McCabe visited Ladybridge Primary School in Stockport to celebrate Nelson Mandela Day. Throughout the day, each class wrote part of a new song, each focusing on a topic for which Nelson Mandela fought during his lifetime. These included subjects of racism and segregation and how the issues are relevant to the pupils’ own lives today. The celebrations culminated in an assembly at the end of the day, during which the whole school combined their verses into the final song they had created. This song is now being used as the schoo... Read More
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