BMW Group Plant Oxford announces partnership with Festival Concert!

Thursday 22 February, 2007

BMW Group Plant Oxford has announced its support of four key special projects within Oxfordshire 2007, including the Festival Concert.

Alexandra Brooks, Corporate Communications Manager, said: "Plant Oxford recognizes the impact and influence that major manufacturing facilities can have on their communities and we feel it important to be involved. We are proud to support the Festival Concert as well as other events as part of Oxfordshire 2007. We believe Plant Oxford's partnership with Oxfordshire 2007 will help to make the 'Home of MINI' a more vibrant and diverse community to live, work and play in."

Anthony Kerr-Dineen, the Festival Concert organiser and Director of Cultural Activities at St Edwards School, says "The concert will be a spectacular musical event and we are delighted that locally-based companies such as BMW Group Plant Oxford are lending their support to make this celebration of the county's rich musical life such a memorable one."

The concert's main work is Walton's spectacular Belshazzar's Feast, performed by a Festival Chorus, Schola Cantorum and the Oxford University Orchestra. The first half of the programme provides an exciting platform for Oxfordshire's young musicians. The county's flagship orchestra, the CMS Sinfonia, will open the concert and the première of a work written specially for the occasion by Oxford composer, John Madden, will follow. Madden's attractive setting of Circus Songs will be performed by up to 200 children drawn from a range of state and independent schools.

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