Huntingdonshire Music School Association

Huntingdonshire is twinned with Marburg-Biedenkopf in the state of Hess, Germany, about 50 miles north of Frankfurt.  It is a really attractive region with tree covered hills all around. Marburg Biedenkopf has a summer music festival and we have been invited to take part. The trip will be centred around the picturesque village of Bad Endbach. A new swimming pool and spa opened last October and the village also has shops, cafes etc.
Marburg is a very interesting old university town with plenty of shops to visit.

Links: Wikipedia - Marburg-Biedenkopf, Wikipedia - Bad Endbach, city of Marburg website, videos:

YouTube - video 1 (never mind the soundtrack!), YouTube - video 2

The trip is open to any student of the Huntingdonshire Music School - you don’t need to be playing in a band or ensemble.

Itinerary

Thursday 11th August:

• Early start from HRC, travelling by coach and ferry.
• Plan to arrive at 18:00 and have a group meal

Friday 12th August - Sunday 14th August

• A number of concerts, depending upon who goes and the bands we can form
• Coach sightseeing trips, possibilities include:
  • Ski lift and summer tobogganing
  • Edersee and Eder dam and waterparc
  • Other options to be built into the itinerary
• Final group meal

Monday 15th August:

• Early start from Bad Endbach
• ETA Huntingdon 19:00

Accommodation

We will be staying in the village of Bad Endbach. There isn’t a big enough hotel in Bad Endbach that will accommodate us all, so we will have to be split between 2 (possibly 3) hotels situated close together. The rooms are ensuite singles, twins or doubles, and some will have the capability of having an extra single bed put in the room. There may be an option to stay with local families.

Editor - Found this odd link connecting a visitor from Warboys to Bad Endbach

Cost

Adults c £220
Children c £200

We hope to have a donation from Huntingdonshire District Council that will help toward the cost of the trip; we will also hold fundraising events to raise funds for the trip. If there are 40 people on the trip and the fund raising goes well, the adult price could drop to £175.

Included in price:

• All travel throughout the trip from and back to HRC, inc excursion transport.
• Evening meal on arrival at Bad Endbach
• 4 nights Hotel accommodation, bed & breakfast.
• End of tour meal.

Excluded:

• All lunches and evening meals other than the above.
• Travel or instrument insurance
• Spending money
• Additional excursions

A £25 deposit is needed to secure your place at the time of booking with the booking form (see entry in discussion forum) to either Alan Crosthwaite (a.crosthwaite495@btinternet.com) or Joyce Reeves.

Huntingdonshire Music School Association work to raise funding for bursaries for Music School students.  We are fortunate in having a number of benefactors, including the Huntingdon Freemen’s Charity.

Each year we encourage students, and parents/guardians of students under 18, to apply for a bursary.  This is usually the cost of one term’s tuition.  However, we cannot guarantee that funds will always be available.  Each application is treated in the strictest confidence and the details are only know to the Chairman and the Treasurer of the association, and the Director of the Music School.  Application forms are available from the office and we advise students of the details for each year, via the internal music school Leger Lines newsletter.

Please note that some of these benefactors apply restrictions on access to a bursary, for example based on age or home address e.g. for Freemen’s bursaries.  For students who do not fall within the access requirements we are also consider the availability of Association funds to provide bursaries.

The classical guitar ensemble from the Huntingdonshire Music School spent nearly 5 hours recording in Old Hurst at St. Peter’s Church one weekend in March. There’s not much you can do in gloves! Anyway the end result was worth it and we now have a CD for sale (£5) with the proceeds going towards HUMSA and therefore future music-making at the music school.

The tracks include:

• Boureé (Mozart arr K. Marx)
• The Olive Grove - 1) Il Pensieroso 2) L’allegro (Peter Nuttall)
• Contradanza (Ian Gammie)
• Jeux Interdits (Narcisio Yepes arr. Remi Laredo)
• Beginners’ Rag (Susan Sharp)
• Ashokan Farewell (Trad.)
• Arena y Sol (Ian Gammie)
• Sarabande Varieé (G.F. Handel)
• Jamaica Farewell (Trad.)
A sample of the tracks from the CD can be heard on the Music Alley site (used to be the Podcast Music Network).