Page 176 - Guildhall Coverage Book 2020-21
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15 April 2021
LIFESTYLE
By Lorraine Wilson
To go with story by Lorraine Wilson. Glenduckie teenager Kit McCarthy, a first-year student
a Guildhall School of Music in London composing a piece for Illuminated Bridges art project
in London. Picture shows; Kit McCarty. London. Supplied by Kit McCarthy Date; Unknown
From the rural delights of Glenduckie to the bright lights of London, 19-year-old Kit
McCarthy has had a strange first year away from home.
In his first year of a composition course at the Guildhall School of Music and Drama, Kit has
missed the normal buzz of student life in London. Instead of heading out to the wealth of
concerts, galleries and museums that he could have enjoyed, he describes his first year as
“seeing only my computer screen, the courtyard outside my bedroom, and not much else.
