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Original Articles

‘Everybody wants to be Pavarotti’: The Experience of Music for Performers and Audience at a Gilbert and Sullivan Festival

Pages 143-160 | Published online: 29 Jan 2009
 

Abstract

This article investigates the contribution that musical participation makes to people's lives by reporting on a study carried out at the International Gilbert and Sullivan Festival in August 2001 in Buxton, Derbyshire. The audience are shown to have a strong commitment to the musical genre and its preservation through live performance, whilst the performers are more likely to value membership of their society and the personal satisfaction that comes from successful performance. The festival therefore serves diverse purposes for those who attend it, and raises further questions about the interaction between social, personal and musical experience at events of this kind.

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