Music at Cambridge: Then and Now. Celebrating 75 years of the Faculty of Music.

A short documentary to celebrate the 75th anniversary of the Faculty of Music, its genesis, characters and culture as a vanguard of excellence, from its origins in the aftermath of WWII to the present.

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Directed and edited by Tom Andrews
Music sound engineering by Myles Eastwood
Produced by David Trippett

Centred on the legacy of Professor Alexander Goehr, the documentary asks former Faculty of Music staff and students what it was like to study music in the shadow of Arnold Schoenberg and Edward Dent. It narrates the journey of the Music Tripos from the rigorous, skills-based focus of the 1940s to the rich and diverse outlook of the present: Gospel with countertenors, global opera, music in digital culture, historical reconstructions of 19th-century opera, Boethius, and more. It gives unprecedented personal insights, too, into the experience of some major musical figures at Cambridge, its people and environs.

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