One hundred music students from the University of Kent will give two concert performances of one of The Beatles’ most extraordinary and best-loved albums.
The Abbey Road concerts, by students at the School of Music and Fine Arts (SMFA), will take place on Wednesday 9 March at 19.30 at Chatham Historic Dockyard’s Royal Dockyard Church and on Friday 11 March at 19.30 in the Colyer Fergusson Music Building at the University’s Canterbury campus. Tickets are priced £7 (students £5).
The performances are intended to enhance the students’ studies as well as add to the already vibrant musical communities at both the Canterbury and Medway campuses.
Both concerts will remain true to the spirit of The Beatles’ album with great solo singers and instrumentalists. The use of an 80-strong choir alongside the brilliant orchestral arrangements of The Beatles’ legendary producer, George Martin, will draw out the symphonic potential of the album’s wonderful series of seamlessly connected songs across its B-side.
The concerts have a gigantic symphonic conclusion and feature orchestral and choral sections throughout.
Dr Ben Curry, Lecturer in Music at SMFA, described Abbey Road as pop music ‘but with a musical scope and dynamism that is serious and compelling from beginning to end’.
For tickets: The Royal Dockyard Church, Chatham on Wednesday 9 March at 19.30
Colyer-Fergusson Concert Hall, Canterbury on Friday 11 March at 19.30