Dear Pamela
I would like to say thank-you for a wonderful concert at HBS yesterday. The three musicians – Catriona, Gemma and Simon – were absolutely outstanding and, in addition to their superb musical performances, were able to talk about the music in a way that was informative, educational and extremely well directed. The HBS girls were really inspired by the whole event which was attended by a range of students from years 7-13. As you noticed, they were totally absorbed and attentive throughout.
It was also very special to have Paul Patterson at the concert and his explanation of his Soliloquy was, I thought, brilliant. I was delighted that a couple of our really keen senior student composers were in the audience, as well as some of the younger ones who are already dabbling very effectively in this area of music making.
My one regret, as I said yesterday, was that more students did not attend, and I would hope that we could build on the experience to increase attendance at any future event. We are intending to run HBS Music department trips to both H&H festival Cavatina concerts and hope to get some good attendance there (although there are some exam date clashes, unfortunately). George Vass’s presence yesterday also added, I felt, an invaluable aspect of contact with the Arts world to the event.
The musicians also inspired my colleagues on the HBS staff, about 10 of whom attended yesterday’s concert, to such an extent that several are very keen to come to the concert and some of them booked their tickets within hours of your departure from HBS!
Once again, I would like to thank yourself, the trio - Catriona Scott, Gemma Rosefield and Simon Lepper - Paul Patterson and George Vass for bringing this excellent event to HBS. I would be grateful if you could pass on my thanks to all those involved and have emailed a copy of this letter to you to help facilitate this.
Yours sincerely
Katherine Bamber
Head of Music |
