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03 June 2024

For one night only: RNCM takes over the Manchester Museum for Nature's
Music, live ensembles amongst the museum's collections
Labels: Manchester, preview, RNCM

Nature's Music - RNCM at the Manchester Museum (Photo: ©RNCM)

On Saturday 6 July 2024, the Royal Northern College of Music (RNCM) will take over the
galleries of the Manchester Museum and present Nature's Music, an immersive show that
puts live ensembles amongst the Museum's collections. RNCM students and guest artists
will play well-loved and modern compositions inspired by the natural world, including a
rare arrangement of Vaughan Williams’ The Lark Ascending for violin and chamber choir.

Visitors will take a nocturnal journey through Living Worlds and Nature’s Library, the Fossils and
Dinosaurs and South Asia galleries, and more, experiencing musical interpretations of birdsong, wind
and water, land and sky, and compositions that conjure up England, Egypt, China, and beyond.
Performers will include guest artists Trees.R.Good and the RNCM's new Community Chorus will be
performing too.

Tickets for Nature's Music are available from the RNCM website.

Nature's Music is part of the RNCM's The Future is Green, a campaign to use music as a catalyst to
spark discussion about the climate emergency as the college actively seeks to reduce its carbon
footprint. The Future is Green reflects concerns of the college's current students and the
conservatoire’s long-standing interest in supporting Greater Manchester’s net zero targets.