At the Whitsun Festival we bridge the gap between Old Europe and New Hollywood. Long ridiculed, film music is now an independent branch of musical modernism that focuses less on avant-garde and more on applicability, and incidentally familiarises the audience with dissonance and other modernisms. "Cinema" is something like the sun at Whitsun, but there are other planets: Look forward to jazz, chamber music, British and Russian symphonies.
