L’Chaim – Living Music

This month and next, we're gearing up for one of our longest running outreach programmes, L'Chaim - Living Music

The project has been going for the last 12 years and involves small chamber ensembles visiting Jewish care homes in North London, playing informal recitals and interacting with residents and staff. Throughout February and March a CLS string quartet will visit nine homes, many of which are new additions to the L’Chaim project. 

Residents of the homes are always knowledgeable about classical music, and we usually have people humming along with melodies, from Gershwin to Dvorak, and telling stories of concerts they’ve been to and musicians they’ve known.

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As the years have passed, the set up and management of the homes has changed, and many of the beautiful old homes we’ve been used to visiting on the Bishops Avenue have now closed. Not wanting the project to wind down, we’ve recently developed a partnership with Jewish Care, who manage a large number of homes and community centres for the Jewish community in North London and further afield.

It’s always a pleasure to play to these wonderful and unique audiences, in fact it doesn’t take much to tempt our musicians to stay late for afternoon tea, cakes and chats with the residents and staff.     

Gillian
Education Manager