Sixty student musicians spent the summer playing Brahms's Second Symphony in village halls, market squares and one converted cattle barn.
The Aldermere College Orchestra's summer tour visited twelve towns within a day's drive of the college, none of which has a concert hall. Tickets were free; the orchestra asked only that each town find a local choir or band to share the programme.
In Hartley Green the audience of 400 was larger than the town's population. In Wexcombe the orchestra played in a barn with the doors open to the evening, and a herd of cows stood at the fence for the whole of the second movement.
The tour will run again next summer, with applications from towns opening in January.
