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Success for 'Peterborough Music Making' (April 8th - 2008)
Good News for Peterborough Exactly a year on from the launch of this consortium by Aled Jones, Peterborough Music Making (PMM) has won an ‘Awards for All’ grant of £6,200. Helmut Cartwright (Chair of PMM) said ‘We are delighted that Awards for All recognise's the importance of voluntary music making in our communities, and the opportunities and enjoyment it gives to individuals. This is really good news’ . PMM is keen for people of all ages and cultures to know what is going within the musical life of the city area and to come and see and try it for themselves. The Award grant will therefore be used to print and distribute leaflets to as many households as possible, and through this information widen access to PMM member group activities. – so watch for this leaflet to come through your door . Visit our website on www.peterboroughmusicmaking.org.uk and find out more about us. The first large scale collaborative event by members of PMM will be in the Cathedral on 19 April. Five member groups will be performing Mahler’s “Resurrection Symphony” which should inspire people of all cultures. Do visit the Events Calendar on the PMM website for further joint events and much more.
Contacts Perhaps you are part of a voluntary group that is not yet involved in PMM – why not let us know. Notes to Editors CONTACT: Helmut Cartwright 01832 272531 or Liz Noble 01778 342855 A Brief History - PMM was founded by 4 local voluntary music groups in March 2006 and now has a membership of 14 local voluntary music groups covering a wide range of interests which should have an appeal to many people. City of Peterborough Concert Band; City of Peterborough Symphony Orchestra; Classic Harmony; Divers Voices; Gildenburgh Choir; Hereward Harmony; Peterborough Chamber Choir; Peterborough Choral Society; Peterborough Gilbert & Sullivan Players; Peterborough Male Voice Choir; Peterborough Opera; Peterborough Young Singers; Recorders Galore; St Peter’s Singers. - As well as wanting to widen access & participation by individuals, & collaboration between its members, PMM will give its members a more effective voice on local musical issues.


CPSO and Peterborough Choirs, Mahler’s Resurrection Symphony’, Peterborough Cathedral, 19 April, 2008 review @ Geoffrey Hindley.

A triumph! On Saturday evening in the cathedral the CPSO with Peterborough’s massed choirs and the fine voices of Rachel Nicholls soprano, and Stephanie Lewis contralto, under principal conductor Russell Keable and leader Angus Gibbon gave a performance of Gustav Mahler’s second symphony ‘The Resurrection’ that thrilled with its power and delighted with its professionalism.

They could hardly have attempted a more ambitious challenge than this 90-minute work in which the strings are, from the outset, vital to the entire enterprise. Over the years the orchestra, sometimes challenged in its string intonation, has nevertheless achieved growing authority.

On Saturday the attack had assurance, intonation secure, and the variants of bowing demanded by the score were treated as a matter of course; from the ominous mystery of the grand first movement the ensemble provided a rich platform for woods and brass, or filigree patterns of passage work.

With off stage trumpet fanfares and horn calls reverberating through the stone forest of the cathedral’s aisles and pillars, the familiar glories of the Peterborough brass found added resonance and drama. Such thrills were heightened by intervening sunlit waters of woodwind chords and the passionate solo line of clarinet or flutes.

The cathedral space was lit and exploited to theatrical effect; the two soloists emerged with poise to deliver lines of meditation or joy and then the ranks of the choirs rose with alert intent to deliver the final majestic message of this majestic work, of triumph over suffering, of resurrection. Throughout, Mr Keable was able to vary texture, build climax and shape contrasts with complete confidence in the response of his colleagues and to summon up terrific evocations as of the Day of Judgement from a battery of supreme percussionists.

It was a notable week for the City when our footballers won promotion and our musicians moved to a new stratum of professional attainment.