EMMANUEL COLLEGE
QUEEN'S BUILDING CAMBRIDGE
SUNDAY 18 NOVEMBER 2007 9pm
SUNDAY RECITAL SERIES
KELVIN CHAN - PIANO
Tickets £ 2.00 at the door
HUNGARIAN MUSIC
Hungary developed a unique musical life
mixing Turkic and Magyar Folk survivals with
Gypsy elements. Converted to western
Christianity in the 11th century, Hungary shared
the medieval Catholic Europe music.
In the 20th century a drastic reappraisal of the
true traditions of Hungarian folk music launched
the nation's two greatset composers:
BELA BARTOK 1881 Nagyszentmiklos - 1945 New York
Bartok drew a sense of rhythm and colour that made
him one of the boldest personalities of Hungarian
music.
ZOLTAN KODALY 1882 Kecskemet - 1967 Budapest
He created a training system acclaimed around
the world. He made music and choral singing
a focus in Hungarian schools.
PROGRAMME
Mozart: Sonata in D major K311
Ravel: Ondine from Gaspard de la nuit
Faure; Nocturne in E flat op36 no4
Prokofiev: Sonata no 7
SUNDAY RECITAL SERIES
Every week the Sunday night Recital at EMMA
hosts some of the college's, and often
university's, finest soloists and small ensembles.
Usually no longer than 30 - 40 minutes, they
represent the perfect way to take a break
and wind down at the end of the week.
ECMS
Almost all the music making in Emmanuel
College happens through the Emmanuel
College Music Society (ECMS).
From large orchestral concerts to solo recitals,
from barbershop groups to jazz
evenings, EMCS gives the chance for all
Emma students to enjoy a wide range of
different types of music within college, and
for musicians of all standards to have fun while
making music with their friends.
The music society seeks to create an
environment where all members of the college,
who wish to do so, can find a way to express
themselves musically.
THE QUEEN'S BUILDING
The multi-purpose Queen's Building, situated
in the heart of Cambridge, is a venue for
all occasions.
It was opened by the Queen on 19th April 1995
and designed by Sir Michael and Lady Hopkins.
The central axis of the building is set in parallel
with the North Court buildings across Emmanuel
Street, making a visual link between the two
parts of the College.
The walls are of Ketton stone, like the Wren
chapel, used not as cladding but as solid
masonry, with 28 compressed, preloaded
columns, each with a prestressed stainless steel
rod passing thorugh it to counteract stress.
The rods can be seen in the portholes or
eyelets on the outside, and can be removed
by disconnecting them in sections, if replacements
were to become necessary. The stone panels
between the columns are thinner,
being non structural. The roof is designed to minimise
external noise. The Building was paid for
entirely by private contributions.
EMMANUEL COLLEGE
The college was founded 1584 by Sir Walter
Mildway, on the site of a Dominican friary.
Emma, as it's known throughout the University
attracts a large number of undergraduate
applicants owing to its reputation as a friendly
college.
The Emmanuel Chapel was designed by
Christopher Wren and the stained windows
were completed for its tercentenary.
In the grounds there is a fish pond and a
colony of ducks of a variety of species.
There is a fine oriental plane tree in the
Fellow's Garden which also contains a swimming
pool, one of the oldest bathing pools in Europe.
Emmanuel graduates had a large involvement in
the settling of North America. Of the first 100
university graduates in New England, one-third
were graduates of Emmanuel College.
Harvard University, the first college in North
America, was named after John Harvard, who
was an Emmanuel graduate.
Famous alumni include:
Hugh Walpole, Fred Hoyle, Cecil Parkinson,
Michael Frayn, Sebastian Faulks & Graeme Garden.
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