Issue No.60
Friends Newsletter We say hello to ’
January 2013
Trevor Pinnock You have a long history with Music in the Round. When did you first perform with us? I first came into contact with Music in the Round a long time ago. I’d admired the work of the Lindsay String Quartet and what they were trying to do, particularly how they were working to make even tough music approachable. I hoped to do the same. I saw them perform at the (then) Victoria Theatre in Stoke-on-Trent and we both knew Peter Cheeseman who was pioneering in-the-round theatre there; we shared an enthusiasm for the inclusive and accessible ethos of what he was doing. I was excited to then be invited to perform the “Trout” Quintet with the Lindsays in Sheffield and at Wigmore Hall. I also really enjoyed working with Martin Cropper on the Highly Strung project through
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page one an d two We Sa y Hello to Tre vor Pinnock page three E xciting New s Fundraising Update page four an d five Exploring M ozart May Festival Callout page six Fr iends’ Event Transformat ions Blog Staff News page seven Just a Note page eight A Look Ahead
the Music in the Community.
It will be fantastic to have you back in the Crucible Studio. Do you enjoy playing I’ve got other links with in the round? Sheffield, especially with I have to say that playing in the University, which gave the round is slightly tricky me an Honorary Doctorate for harpsichord because of in 2005 following a the directional nature of the research study project I’d instrument, but I do like the done there. fact that the setting breaks I’d also given recitals at down barriers between the the University and had performer and the audience, made contact with Mitzi the “them and us” feeling that Matlock who was running you get in some concert halls. concerts there then. I I always work in close was working on a special collaboration with ensembles project, the European and like to have them around Brandenburg Ensemble the instrument. Of course the project, to celebrate my paths of communication are sixtieth birthday, and I not only sight, listening is asked Mitzi if she would very important too. work on it. She got the Council and Sheffield City What drew you to the Hall involved and it was programme you’ll be playing performed and recorded for us in March, and could in City Hall. She drummed you tell us about it? up sponsorship and got I make connections, and in a hotels for us. It was a sense every concert is a new great project and good in journey, a journey in sound. that it happened outside London; sometimes London people forget that things happen outside of the city.
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