The Music Workshop Company Blog 

Each month the Music Workshop Company publishes two blogs. One blog, written by the MWC team addresses a key issue in Music Education or gives information about a particular genre or period of music. The other blog is written by a guest writer, highlighting good practice or key events in Music Education. We hope you enjoy reading the blogs. 
 
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To contribute as a guest writer please email Maria@music-workshop.co.uk 

Posts from June 2025

The Oxford Cello School (OCS) is an international cello summer school founded in 1980 by Marianne Gottfeldt to provide a unique opportunity for cellists to focus on their instrument and receive the very best tuition in an intensive environment. This remains their philosophy.  
 
The Music Workshop Company are proud to work with their students every year. 
 
In this month's guest blog, Stephen Gottfeldt tells us all about the ethos of the School and what it offers it's students. 
George Butterworth is perhaps mostly remembered for the fact that his life was cut short at the Battle of the Somme. He left behind not only his own compositions, but a vast collection of folk songs and dances which he collected alongside his friends Ralph Vaughan Williams and Cecil Sharp. 
 
Butterworth’s ‘The Banks of Green Willow’ is strongly linked to the loss of the composer and many of his generation in World War I and is seen by some as an anthem for all 'Unknown Soldiers'. 
 
 
 
Image: photographer unknown - Photograph first published in the George Butterworth Memorial Volume, privately printed in the UK, 1918 

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