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           <title>Preview of Gilbert and Sullivan Festival at Blackwell's</title>
           
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  Pirates lurking among the bookshelves, Oriental gentlemen serenading you as you browse — what on earth is going on?
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           <title>Festival to offer the best of English music</title>
           
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  There are probably few villages more quintessentially English than Dorchester-on-Thames with its ancient abbey and narrow, twisting main street lined with olde worlde houses and pubs. So it makes the perfect setting for the English Music Festival, established in 2006 to showcase the very best of English music, old and new. Festival founder and director Em Marshall-Luck is particularly keen to unearth long-forgotten gems and restore them to the mainstream repertoire. So it’s no surprise to find that this year’s programme includes the usual handful of world premieres, as well as many pieces that were popular in their day but have since faded into obscurity.
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           <title>The Noble art of guitar</title>
           
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  Nicola Lisle meets Oxford guitarist Manus Noble
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           <title>Preview of the Newbury Spring Festival</title>
           
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  What does opera composer Richard Wagner have in common with clarinettist Acker Bilk? The answer is that both appear in the billings for this year’s Newbury Spring Festival. So what, I ask festival director Mark Eynon, does he think Wagner would have made of Acker Bilk, and his music?
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           <title>Preview of the May Music Festival</title>
           
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  TV’s favourite physicist is the stand-out name at this year’s May Music Festival, Oxford’s annual showcase for science and the arts.
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           <title>Sholto Kynoch goes solo on his Steinway</title>
           
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  It was a tough job but someone had to do it. When SJE Arts decided they needed a Steinway piano for their new concert venue, it involved a trip to Spain — and Sholto Kynoch who went out there to try it out.
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           <title>Preview of Singing For Freedom</title>
           
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  Imagine your grandfather and uncle being brutally murdered by the Taleban when you are just three years old, and then your parents and baby brother go missing, presumed tortured and killed.
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  It can’t be every day that a group of teenagers climb on to a Cowley rooftop and sing classical music. But that’s what sisters Kate, Helen, Emma, and Laura Ashby, plus their brother Nick, decided to do as youngsters.
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           <title>Trevor Pinnock on a concert mixing European cultures</title>
           
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  St John the Evangelist, Oxford’s wonderful new concert venue, is nothing if not eclectic. Having just played host to 1970s prog rock legends Caravan, now it goes to the opposite end of the spectrum with an evening of music from 18th-century Europe, featuring works by Handel, Bach, Scarlatti, Buxtehude, Marais and Rameau.
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           <title>Preview of The Pilgrimage Concerts by The Sixteen</title>
           
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  City bankers scurry past, mobile phones clamped to their ears. But their free ears could catch the famous sounds of Allegri’s Miserere soaring up from beneath their well-polished shoes. For in the bright and airy basement of the Dutch Church, just behind the Bank of England, the Sixteen choir is busy rehearsing the work for their Choral Pilgrimage 2013.
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           <title>Masses of passion for  Easter weekend</title>
           
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  Move over, Britten – Easter’s here, and Bach’s taking over. Yes, Benjamin Britten might be this year’s birthday boy, but for Easter at least it seems Bach is king, with three major Bach concerts on over the weekend.
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           <title>Preview of Magdalen College Easter concerts</title>
           
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  Easter approaches, and with it annual airings for Bach’s two great surviving Passion settings. Magdalen College Choir is performing the St John Passion, which could truly be said to have worked its way into the blood of Magdalen’s director of chapel music, Daniel Hyde.
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           <title>Choristers give voice to Britten's music for the church</title>
           
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  work from composer Benjamin Britten. In 1944, St Mark’s Church asked him to set the Te Deum in celebration of its centenary. Just recently on BBC Radio 3, a member of St Mark’s choir at the time recalled that the piece was: “pretty demanding to sing”.
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           <title>Fresh talent take on classics</title>
           
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  IIt is tempting to think ‘young’ equals ‘not very good’ when it comes to music. Usually, though, this is far from the case, and there are two concerts coming up this weekend to prove the point.
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           <title>It's all smoke and mirrors</title>
           
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  Nicola Lisle looks forward to a powerful piece by a local writer for Oxford International Women’s Festival
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           <title>Benjamin Britten centenary festival previewed</title>
           
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  Benjamin Britten is widely acknowledged as one of the greatest composers of the 20th century, with a gift for writing a wide range of music that appealed to people of all ages. He was also a distinguished conductor and pianist, and a passionate believer in nurturing young musicians. Yet, despite being one of the most frequently performed composers, there are many who are still wary of his music.
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           <title>Enter the Dragon for St David's Day</title>
           
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  Oxfordshire Welsh Society will celebrate St David’s Day in style — by bringing a bit of Wales to Oxford.
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           <title>Oxford Lieder Festival Spring Series previewed</title>
           
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  If you’re a regular at the Oxford Lieder Festival and you can’t wait until October for your annual fix, don’t worry — you don’t have to. Tomorrow sees the launch of the Oxford Lieder Spring series, which runs until June and offers a tasty appetiser before the main feast in October.
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           <title>Return of Messiah with a thoroughly Enlightened tone</title>
           
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  You can set your watch by performances of Handel’s Messiah in Oxford. Winter approaches and suddenly every chapel, church and concert-hall echoes to cries of Hallelujah and tuneful exhortations to ‘Behold the Lamb of God’. But this February the Sheldonian will host a Messiah with a difference. When the final Amen chorus reaches its ecstatic climax, Oxford will be celebrating the start of something new, rather than just the end of something old. The concert marks the beginning of a relationship between Oxford, Oxford University’s faculty of music and the Orchestra of the Age of Enlightenment – one of Britain’s most dynamic period ensembles. The partnership is a natural fit for a city so rooted in the past, bringing musical history to gut-stringed life in venues where Handel himself performed. “One of the ambitions of the OAE in recent years has been to establish a close relationship with a city outside London,” explains the orchestra’s chief executive Stephen Carpenter. “The work we’ll be doing at the faculty – running masterclasses with major soloists, inviting students to open rehearsals and organising side-by-side projects to involve instrumentalists from the university in our music-making – will fulfil part of the ambition, but it’s also important to us that we put on public concerts as a complement to all of that.” It’s a bold undertaking at a time when life for orchestras has never been tougher, and one that will depend initially on the fundraising success of the OAE’s Messiah – staged thanks to donations from the ensemble’s own supporters. But Carpenter is hopeful, describing the residency as “open-ended”, and looking to the long-term in plans for a composition project. Ultimately the orchestra hopes to extend their involvement beyond the university, participating in outreach work with local Oxfordshire schools.
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  You need to capture them when they’re young,” says Rebecca Woodward, administrator of the Oxford-based National Schools Symphony Orchestra. And for nearly 20 years the NSSO has been doing just that, by bringing together enthusiastic young musicians for a week of intensive musical training every summer.
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