MUSIC NEWS EXTRA
The Keys
On Mon 21 Apr, Mark Eager will set off
from St David’s Hall in Cardiff to run a
full marathon. Then he’ll do it again. Then
he’ll do it four more times, totalling an
organ-shrivelling 178.6 miles in six days.
This is the exact distance from Cardiff to
Bangor, but Eager is the chief conductor
and artistic director of the Welsh Sinfonia,
so reasonably enough has elected to run
in the direction of the Albert Hall instead.
This is all to raise finances and awareness
of the Crescendo project, which is hoping
to get Welsh Sinfonia professionals
working with pupils in secondary schools
across Wales and, in Eager’s words,
“build orchestras that th H