Behind the music: stories from CMF 2019 – Two great women behind our Rush Hour concert
Two great women who helped to launch countless musical careers Here’s a brainteaser to brighten up your day: What connects Aaron Copland, Philip Glass, Quincy Jones, and Burt Bacharach? And, while we’re at it, Dinu Lipatti, Daniel Barenboim and Astor Piazzolla as well? The answer is that...
Keyboard engineering
With a reputation for daring, boundary-pushing music, how does pianist/technologist Zubin Kanga fit with the more conventional classical sounds at this year’s Cambridge Music Festival? Never underestimate your audience’s appetite for something new, he tells the Cambridge Independent. Keyboard engineering For a moment, everything seems relatively normal,...
Behind the music: stories from CMF 2019 – Hot club jazz from the ashes
Hot club jazz from the ashes Trio Manouche and Friends bring Django Reinhardt’s free-spirited jazz to the Cambridge Music Festival on 14 November. But the music might never have existed had it not been for a personal disaster, 91 years ago. In 1928, Jack Hylton, the celebrated...