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| Mozart’s Requiem: David Crown conducts Cheltenham Bach Choir and the Musical & Amicable Society at Cheltenham City Corridor |
This yr the Cheltenham Music Pageant celebrated its eightieth birthday [see my review of the closing concert]. The birthday yr included two new commissions, 4 world premieres, large-scale orchestral performances and intimate chamber recitals. Cheltenham’s eightieth anniversary proved a possibility to rejoice the Pageant’s heritage – and in addition look to a promising future.
The pageant’s eightieth season noticed a doubling of its viewers year-on-year, capping a vibrant anniversary yr that noticed the Pageant reaffirm its place as a centre for world-class classical music within the UK.
The doubling of the Pageant’s viewers figures displays a way of renewed vitality across the Pageant in Jack Bazalgette’s inaugural yr as its Inventive Director. “To see so many 1000’s attend a programme of this breadth has been genuinely thrilling,” he stated. “Cheltenham is held in each esteem and affection eighty years on, and our mission in our ninth decade is to deepen and broaden that relationship with concert-goers, the classically curious and present fanatics alike.”
Additional particulars from the pageant web site.
