Lord Windson performs in Wind Power 2009
Wind Power returns, with strings attached. A benefit concert with the Coldstream Guards, supporting Imperial's musical life - News Tuesday 25 January 2011 - By John-Paul Jones The Coldstream Guards are once more marching into Imperial this week, to perform alongside staff and students in a benefit concert supporting the College's musical life. The Band of the Coldstream Guards first joined forces with Imperial's windband for Wind Power in 2009, and a video of that concert canbe found below. Wednesday's follow up event, Wind Power 2: With Strings attached , sees the bands joined by the award winning Imperial College Symphony Orchestra. Workshops and rehearsals throughout Wednesday will give the students involved the chance to practise alongside their opposite numbers in the Band of the Coldstream Guards. Then, at 18.30 they will face the music for the evening concert, the proceeds of which will go towards music scholarships at Imperial as well as to charities linked to the Guards. The evening's host, Professor Julia Buckingham , Pro Rector (Education and Academic Affairs) will be joined by Lord Robert Winston, the College's Professor of Science and Society, who will also perform alongside the bands on the saxophone.
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