Most years I manage to arrange to stay with my sister Anne on her farm near Canterbury while the Canterbury Festival is on.
The Festival Chamber Orchestra conducted by Stephen Barlow performed a concert titled The English Soul. “The English Soul endeavors to capture the emotive and spiritual nature of Englishness through classical and popular music. From Purcell to the Moody Blues Vaughan Williams to a World Premier of a new work by composer and arranger Michael McDermott”
The new work was a tribute to Elizabeth II titled “Heart and Soul of a Nation” and was a world premier. Much enjoyed.
A talk “ The BBC: A People’s History” by David Hendy based on a recently published book was fascinating. “From its maverick beginnings through the war, the creation of television, changing public taste, austerity and massive cultural change, the BBC has constantly evolved”
Classical Therapy by the MozART Group who are from Warsaw Poland was great fun. “We all agree that laughter is the best medicine. The MosART Group have been dispensing their unique comic brand of Musical therapy around the major concert halls of Europe, Asia and the America’s since 1995. Virtuoso playing of favorite pieces of the classical repertoire meets hilarious physical shenanigans and musical jokes a plenty. Guaranteed to lift the spirits and leave you howling with laughter. A real tonic for the times - sadly not available on prescription - but you don’t need to be in BUPA to access their cure.”
Amazingly there are 41 walks listed in the Canterbury Festival Program. “Canterbury’s Pilgrimage Routes” organized by the Canterbury Ramblers with a very informative guide Cliff Huggett was a “walk of the last mile or two of the routes from Winchester and Southwark, the Augustine Camino and the start of the Via Francigena to Rome”
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