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6
April 2012
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Music from the Masters
The world-famous Chillingirian Quartet
came to Abingdon on 6 February and
captivated a packed Amey Theatre with
their performance of pieces by Haydn,
Shostakovich and Ravel. The concert
followed an afternoon in which the
quartet individually coached twelve
Abingdon chamber-music ensembles,
cajoling and encouraging them to
noticeable improvements in only 45
minutes of contact time.
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Sebastian Johns, Leon Wu, Hugh Cutting and
Daniel Tong play Smetna’s Sonata for Eight
Hands at the Music Scholars’ Concert No 2
Abingdon’s Got Talent
Some people have got it
and some people haven’t
but luckily at Abingdon
there seems to be a lot
of it about as seen in
the Amey Theatre on
the evening of 15 March
at the Abingdon’s Got
Talent competition.
A capacity audience
were entertained
by a succession of
talented acts but in
the end – as measured
by the noise-o-meter
– victory went to the
break dancing variety
act Global. And, as
a by-product, £2,500
from the ticket sales
went to a number of
charitable causes.
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If you want to enjoy good music do treat
yourself by attending one of the many
concerts that Abingdon boys put on each
term; the sheer range of talent and skill from
all age groups is really inspiring. Last term’s
concerts offered Purcell’s counter-tenor
duet
Sound the Trumpet
sung by Chris
Mears and Lewis Spring, Lloyd Webber’s
Music of the Night
from
The Phantom of
the Opera
, sung by Toby Marlow, Mozart’s
Piano Concerto in A K488
played by third-
former Leon Wu and an arrangement of
Journey’s
Don’t Stop Believin’
by fourth-
former Guy Cutting. To see what’s coming
up this term look at the What’s On section
on page 2 and come along – you won’t be
disappointed.
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Music for All