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Mellor helps broker launch of Women Make Music campaign

A talented 18 year old composer takes a troubling totalitarian inspiration to help launch a wonderfully inclusive campaign.

Ruth Mellor
  Talented composer Ruth Mellor gained inspiration for her arrangement from the troubling world of data brokering

Talented musician Ruth Mellor recently helped the Harrogate Band launch the 'Women Make Music' campaign in a concert where she conducted her own arrangement of Vienna Teng's deeply troubling song 'Hymn of Acxiom'.

Data brokering

Ruth's arrangement of the American singer/songwriter's choral inspired work that reflects on the modern day phenomena of totalitarian data brokering surveillance, certainly made the concert goers think as it was played by the combined forces of Harrogate and Knaresborough Silver Bands.

Ruth, who will commence studies at the Royal Welsh College of Music & Drama in Cardiff in September, told 4BR: "It's a really proud moment for me. I was so pleased with the audience reaction."

Ruth's arrangement of the American singer/songwriter's choral inspired work that reflects on the modern day phenomena of totalitarian data brokering surveillance, certainly made the concert goers think4BR

Women Make Music

Harrogate Band and conducted by Dean Jones will perform music by female composers in their concerts throughout the year as part of an effort to increase audience's appreciation and to back the 'Women Make Music' campaign.

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