Strings Day 2009
Call for String Players

Join students from Hull University and good amateurs and teachers from the area to rehearse and perform 9.30am-5.30pm, Saturday 7 November, 2009 (Middleton Hall). The event will be led by members of Hull Sinfonietta and conducted by Lee Tsang.

School pupils of good Grade 6 standard or higher are all welcome to participate.

Repertoire:

• Barber Adagio for Strings
• Britten Young Apollo (with Fei Fan, piano)
• Bartok Romanian Folk Dances

Lear Settings

Lear Settings - an animated music-film (2004-2009) - is a response to Edward Lear's poetry ‘The Jumblies' and ‘The Dong with a luminous nose' and has been the basis for a range of education projects at primary, secondary and tertiary levels, and a special research paper on practice and Reach Out in music research.

For this music-film, pupils worked with professional animators, musicians and music technologists; the work features original music by Head of Composition Dr Alastair Borthwick performed by vocal tutor Sarah Leonard (soprano) and Hull Sinfonietta.

Presented as part of Hull Sinfonietta's Young Artists Programme in association with Creative Partnerships, Arts Council England and the Northern Film School, the film's numerous workshops have engaged pupils from Andrew Marvell Business and Enterprise College, Chiltern Primary School and St Andrew's Primary School, Kirkella. The film team welcomes the development of future workshops with other school groups.

Written, produced and co-directed by Lee Tsang
Animated and co-directed by Rozi Fuller
Music by Alastair Borthwick
Lyrics by Edward Lear
Sarah Leonard (soprano)
Hull Sinfonietta, conducted by Lee Tsang