Soundtrack
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“Nine to Five got me pumped to get going – you can’t let Dolly down
Comedian Alice Fraser (Sidney Sussex 2007) adapted to a newfound independence with opera, love songs and a turn on the banjo.
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“I feigned a headache, sneaked downstairs and bumped into the Pope!”
The 21-year-old Kit Hesketh-Harvey (Clare 1975) used his outlandish experiences as a Cambridge choral scholar to plot his course through a life in music.
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“The trick was to mix in stuff people didn’t know, but keep them on the dance floor”
Folk musician John Spiers (King’s 1994) got his first melodeon as a second year but didn’t learn how to get a crowd on its feet until DJ-ing in King’s bar.
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“Jessye Norman sounds like no one else on recordings – there are few voices as distinctive”
Jennifer Johnston (Caius 1995) can trace the start of her award-winning career back to a chance performance.
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“We were a load of 18-year-olds trying to feel our way into social networks.”
For internet sensations Ben and Danielle Marsh (both History, Downing 1995) and their four children lockdown won’t stop the music.
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“I have really intense memories of the ADC and it being the beginning of a lifelong friendship”
Creators of hit musical Six, Lucy Moss (Caius 2014) and Toby Marlow (Robinson 2014) have gone on to global success – but their friendship was forged in the ADC dressing room dancing to Rihanna.
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‘The candles were lit, the Benjamin West painting was radiating, and I just thought ‘Wow!’’
Vice-Chancellor, Professor Stephen J Toope (Trinity 1983), shares the sounds which shaped his student days at Cambridge.
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‘An extraordinary, almost exotic work’
Composer, Jonathan Dove (Trinity 1977) shares the sounds which shaped his student days at Cambridge.