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A concert
performed by children, with ages ranging from 6 to 18, has been
hailed as a huge success.
Held
on the fourth and final day of the Youth Makes Music festival, the
event is widely seen as a fitting end to a week of high quality
music
making.
Over
the course of the week, groups including the Gloucestershire Youth
Jazz Orchestra, Gloucestershire Youth Orchestra and the many area
orchestras and wind bands all took part in concerts, playing a variety
of music from Blues
to Beethoven to Harry Potter!
"Stunning"
The
week culminated in the "Music Centres Prom", in which
the four Gloucestershire music centres combined to produce a concert
that mimicked the ÃÛÑ¿´«Ã½ Last Night of the Proms, with favourites including
"Jerusalem" and "Land of Hope and Glory".
The
leader of one music centre described the evening as "stunning"
and later stated that it had been the best one to date.
Inspiration
The
Youth Makes Music week is placed annually just before the Cheltenham
Music Festival, in which internationally acclaimed musicians and
orchestras meet for a week of concerts and shows.
It
is these concerts, especially when they are placed next to an international
festival, that inspire young musicians to continue with their
musical education.
As
one music centre leader put it in a build up to his orchestra's
performance on stage, like a general rallying his troops, "This
is the
highlight of the music calendar for us. You've all worked exceptionally
hard for it".
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Article
by Ed Leighton
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Gloucester's
Youth Makes Music event at Cheltenham Town Hall was a great success,
writes fifteen-year-old Ed Leighton.
