The Journal
HIGHLIGHTS FROM THE YEAR
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BACH PROJECT COMPLETED Fellow in Music Francis Knights has finished the last of 21 recitals performing the complete keyboard works of Bach, which has taken three and a half years and involved learning some 300,000 notes. This is the first ever complete series of these works on the clavichord, the most common domestic keyboard instrument of 18th century Germany. The project also generated about a dozen conference papers and articles related to organology, stylistic development and performance practice. Last year Francis finished a 30-concert cycle of the Fitzwilliam Virginal Book, and he is now working on a series of programmes of German keyboard music from the 16th to the 19th centuries.
THE FOUNDATION LECTURE: FROM THE HIMALAYAS TO THE FENS Bhaskar Vira, Fitzwilliam College Fellow, Graduate Tutor and Director of Studies in Geography, gave the 2019 Foundation Lecture ‘From the Himalayas to the Fens: Towards a Political Economy of Environment and Development’ in November. The Professor of Political Economy, Head of the Department of Geography, and Founding Director of the University of Cambridge Conservation Research Institute shared his thoughts about the difficult choices and trade-offs associated with balancing the needs of humans and nature, and working towards a sustainable future for people and the planet.
GREEN IMPACT AWARD Fitzwilliam College was awarded a 2019-20 Green Impact Gold Colleges Award for demonstrating commitment to reducing our environmental impact. Green Impact is the University of Cambridge’s environmental accreditation scheme. It supports and encourages colleges and departments across the University in reducing their environmental impacts. Hero Chalmers, Fitzwilliam College Fellow Environmental Officer, said: “The work that went into achieving this started long before we began the formal process of working towards the award. Many individuals and departments in College have been embedding more environmentally sustainable practices for years and this award is a splendid acknowledgement of that work.”
