Description
Singing Weekend in the Cambridge Colleges
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Corpus Christi College
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Corpus Christi College Chapel
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Clare College Chapel
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Jane leading singing in Clare Chapel
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Clare College from the Backs
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Moon over Corpus New Court
Singing Weekend in the Cambridge Colleges, including:
- Full programme of singing on Thursday (from 3pm), Friday and Saturday in Corpus Christi and Clare College Chapels
- All singing tuition led by Jane Harris and Lysander Jaffe
- Specially produced song book with scores and words for all the music
- Two course self-service dinner with a glass of wine on the Thursday evening in St Catharine’s College Hall
- Free evening on the Friday to eat out in Cambridge
- Privileged access to the renowned Clare College Fellows’ Garden – lunchtime on the Saturday
- Dinner (including wine) and social evening on Saturday in the Garden Room at the Gillespie Centre, Clare College
- Tea/coffee/biscuits refreshments in Corpus Christi College Hall on Thursday and Clare College on Friday and Saturday
EVENT STARTS
Thursday 1 April 2:15pm Registration & tea/coffee Corpus Christi College Hall
EVENT ENDS
Saturday 3 April Approx. 10pm after dinner & social evening at the Gillespie Centre, Clare College
TUTORS
The tutors will be Jane Harris, Director of Songways, and Lysander Jaffe, guest tutor from Boston. Jane and Lysander will bring a rich variety of songs from different musical traditions, including Jane’s own compositions. To complete the team, Andrea Cheston will be helping to host the weekend and ensure that everything runs smoothly.
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Jane Harris
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Lysander Jaffe
Jane Harris is an experienced choir leader and Director of Songways, based in Bath, and an Old Member of Corpus Christi College. Jane loves to explore songs in different ways to enrich and deepen the singing experience. She has a clear, inclusive and enabling teaching style, uncovers the best in singers’ voices and draws people together with heartfelt, resonant singing. Jane has a rich, vibrant voice and has released an album of her own songs, inspired by the natural world – One touch of nature. Jane performs with her own vocal ensemble, Rolling Harmony.
“An exceptional teacher with a wonderful choice of songs”
Lysander Jaffe is a singer, violinist, violist and educator based in Boston. He is co-director of Boston Harmony, a community choir with repertoire from a wide range of folk polyphony traditions, including American shape-note, renaissance music, and music of Georgia, Corsica, the Balkans, Ukraine, and South Africa. He leads singing workshops for Village Harmony in the US and SongRoots in Canada. He performs with Culomba – a Massachusetts-based vocal ensemble specializing in close harmony singing from around the world, including American folk traditions, music of Georgia, Corsica, the Balkans, Ukraine, early European polyphony, and original compositions.
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