UK orchestra in tune to help Myanmar refugees
London Mozart Players release new video of Letters from Burma composition to raise funds for charity Advance Myanmar UCA News reporter Published: June 26, 2021 07:24 AM GMT
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A screenshot from the Letters from Burma video
A British orchestra is highlighting the crisis in Myanmar while raising money for refugees fleeing attacks by the military.
London Mozart Players (LMP) and oboist Olivier Stankiewicz have joined forces with the orchestra’s associate composer Roxanna Panufnik to release a new video of Panufnik’s
Letters from Burma, her 2004 composition inspired by Nobel Peace Prize winner Aung San Suu Kyi’s remarkable collection of letters describing everyday life in the country, written during her time under house arrest.
London Mozart Players will headline Thaxted Festival 2021
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Thaxted Festival will return this summer after a hiatus in 2020.
London Mozart Players are set to take to the stage as the festival s leading performers.
LMP will be joined by acapella group VOCES8 and the award-winning Heath Quartet.
A special 200th anniversary recital on the village s Lincoln Organ will also be led by Cambridge musician Robin Walker.
Cellist Laura van der Heijden is on the festival s line up. Picture: Chris Gloag
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The festival will take place in Thaxted Parish Church between Thursday, June 24 and Sunday, June 27, and the following week from Thursday, July 1 to Sunday, July 4.
£11 million of funding has been issued to more than 100 organisations across south London to help provide financial support amid the Covid-19 pandemic. The Government’s Culture Recovery Fund was set up in the midst of the pandemic to help support theatres, galleries, performance groups, arts organisations and local venues to reopen and recover. 2,700 cultural and creative organisations are to receive a share of more than £400 million in grants and loans across the country, as part of a financial boost from the £1.57 billion Culture Recovery Fund. This includes more than £300 million, which has been awarded in grants through Arts Council England, Historic England, National Lottery Heritage Fund and the British Film Institute.
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£11 million of funding has been issued to more than 100 organisations across south London to help provide financial support amid the Covid-19 pandemic. The Government’s Culture Recovery Fund was set up in the midst of the pandemic to help support theatres, galleries, performance groups, arts organisations and local venues to reopen and recover. 2,700 cultural and creative organisations are to receive a share of more than £400 million in grants and loans across the country, as part of a financial boost from the £1.57 billion Culture Recovery Fund. This includes more than £300 million, which has been awarded in grants through Arts Council England, Historic England, National Lottery Heritage Fund and the British Film Institute.