Music at Cambridge Then and Now
Part of the 32nd University of Cambridge Alumni Festival.
Festival programme: www.alumni.cam.ac.uk/festival
A short documentary to celebrate the 75th anniversary of the Faculty of Music, its genesis, characters and culture as a vanguard of excellence, from its origins in the aftermath of WWII to the present.
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Directed and edited by Tom Andrews
Music sound engineering by Myles Eastwood
Produced by David Trippett
Centred on the legacy of Professor Alexander Goehr, this documentary asks former Faculty of Music staff and students what it was like to study music in the shadow of Arnold Schoenberg and Edward Dent. It narrates the journey of the Music Tripos from the rigorous, skills-based focus of the 1940s to the rich and diverse outlook of the present: Gospel with countertenors, global opera, music in digital culture, historical reconstructions of 19th-century opera, Boethius, and more. It gives unprecedented personal insights, too, into the experience of some major musical figures at Cambridge, its people and its environs.
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Professor David Trippett
Professor Trippett is a musicologist and cultural historian. His research focuses on nineteenth-century intellectual history, Richard Wagner, and the philosophy of technology. Other interests include Franz Liszt and post-Classical Weimar, as well as posthumanism and musical creativity in the digital age.
In his research and teaching, he approaches music and its cultures in the widest interdisciplinary sense, incorporating perspectives of cultural and intellectual history, music theory and the history of science, and as well as mediality and the philosophy of technology.