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Scholar’s Spotlight: Jonny Easton
Continuing the series profiling this year’s new Music Performance Scholars and Award Holders. This week, first-year trumpeter reading Italian, Jonny Easton, I began playing when I was very young, as...
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A night to remember: Nostalgia Night research showcase
Congratulations to all the performers involved in last Friday’s Nostalgia Night, a research showcase presented by Dr Chris Deacy in the School of European Culture and Languages as part of this year’s...
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Take a trip down Memory Lane in Nostalgia Night
Next week, the Music department teams up with Dr Chris Deacy, Reader in Theology and Religious Studies at the University, for a special event exploring nostalgia and how it shapes us as human beings,...
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All that jazz: General Tomfoolery is back in action…
Dust off your dancing-shoes, you’re going to need them this year; the 1940’s dance orchestra, General Harding’s Tomfoolery, has emerged phoenix-like from the ashes and is back playing once more. The...
View ArticleFrom the archive: the Herald Tribune, 1952
One of the marvellous aspects to the sheet music archive the Music department was bequeathed by the Ken Lewis Dance Orchestra is the peripheral documents occasionally to be found lurking amidst all the...
View ArticleSummer Music Week: Days One and Two
Our annual Summer Music Week festival launched in fine style over the weekend, as the Big Band headed to the seaside to perform on the Memorial Bandstand at Deal. Blue skies, clear weather and a great...
View ArticleTomfoolery play for Sibson launch
Yesterday afternoon saw the launch of the Sibson Building, the University’s newest addition to the Canterbury campus, and the joint new home shared by Kent Business School and the School of Maths and...
View ArticleWell-met by Moonlight: vintage jazz next week
Fresh from the success of its lunchtime concert last term which had people on their feet dancing in Colyer-Fergusson Hall, General Harding’s Tomfoolery, the vintage jazz orchestra, is back in action...
View ArticleImage Gallery: A Feelin’ You’re Foolin’ with General Harding’s Tomfoolery
(Straw) hats off to the member of General Harding’s Tomfoolery and the Minervettes, for their recent, storming lunchtime concert in Colyer-Fergusson Hall. The thirteen-piece dance orchestra, performing...
View ArticleFinal week of seasonal music-making
It’s been a busy week here in the Music department, with the final musical events bringing the term to a rousing seasonal finale. On Tuesday, the Chamber Choir, conducted by Your Loyal Correspondent,...
View ArticleMore Tomfoolery as the jazz band returns
Cometh the hour, cometh the jazz musicians: the stars have aligned, and this year the twelve-piece dance band, General Harding’s Tomfoolery, is back in action. The group was originally formed in 2013...
View ArticleOne Last Dance: General Harding’s Tomfoolery at the Gulbenkian
Although Summer Music Week was over, we couldn’t let the opportunity for one final event to pass us by, and for the Dance Orchestra to have one final farewell. On the last day of term, General...
View ArticleImage Gallery: Summer Music Week: General Harding’s Tomfoolery
Thanks to Matt Wilson for these stunning photos of General Harding’s Tomfoolery inspiring the audience to dance on the Wednesday of Summer Music Week. Comprising student musicians and run by your loyal...
View ArticleGeneral Tomfoolery visit St Christopher’s School celebrations
There was sunshine, song and some sophisticated swing yesterday afternoon, as General Harding’s Tomfoolery (or the University Dance Band, depending on how you might have heard of them!) played at the...
View ArticleSummer Music Week: the story so far
It’s been a busy week – and it’s not over yet! Since last we posted, we’ve had a lunchtime recital from some of the Music Scholars on Tuesday, and yesterday’s jazz-themed bonanza was bursting with...
View ArticleThat fuss was us! Tomfoolery Dance Orchestra: The Golden Age this Weds
For anyone who’s not come across #hidehidehi, General Harding’s Tomfoolery (aka the University Dance Orchestra!) has been quietly rising through the ranks; hot on the heels of winning the recent...
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