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24/2/2015

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Norfolk Festival of Nature gets underway

I've been working with some pupils from Gresham's school on a special Festival edition of their regular Music and Munch series of lunchtime concerts. This Thursday at 1.20pm they will be performing some well-known pieces inspired by nature.

The concert will begin with a brand-new piece built around the sounds of nature.  Today, we had a run-through and I was hugely impressed by these young musicians' ability to create a true ensemble piece out of fragmentary ideas - just like the "music" that emerges from the individual flourishes that make up the dawn chorus.  And as with birds, it's about listening to your fellow performers and responding.

We'll be using the performance space to explore the spatial dimension of music and sound.  If you think about it, having everything on a stage facing an audience is about as unnatural as can be.  We'll be making our music the way nature intended - everywhere.  Only indoors!
The first evening begins at 6.30 with Festival Director  Al Cormack and photographer Adam Shawyer  recounting their walk along Norfolk's coast between  Sheringham and Great Yarmouth.

 Then at 7.45 poets Matthew Howard, Jonathan Ward  and Beau Hopkins will be reading from their works.

 NATURAL LIGHT will be reporting from the Festival  and previewing each day's events, which continue until  Saturday evening.
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Norfolk Festival of Nature
Gresham's School, Holt 
24-28 February

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