Events

11:00 AM

01. James Rebanks, Jess Dandy and Martin Roscoe: A Cumbrian Idyll

• Gavin Plumley
• Jess Dandy
• Martin Roscoe
• James Rebanks

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08 Oct 2021 11:00 | Jacqueline du Pré Music Building

To start the Festival, we put a best-selling author-shepherd, a brilliant young singer and a world-renowned pianist in a room to talk about if and where landscape, music, lambing and poetry overlap. Each with roots in Cumbria, these three artists, in conversation with Gavin Plumley, ask and challenge what we mean by ‘pastoral’, and explore how a landscape has shaped their own c...

3:30 PM

03. Gurney's Gloucestershire

• Anna Cavaliero
• Kate Kennedy
• Natalie Burch

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08 Oct 2021 15:30 | Jacqueline du Pré Music Building

Ahead of the 5.45pm performance of To His Love, Kate Kennedy, author of the newly-published Dweller in Shadows: A Life of Ivor Gurney, delves into the profound influence of the Gloucestershire landscape on the poetry and music of Ivor Gurney, with live performances illustrating her talk given by soprano Anna Cavaliero and pianist Natalie Burch. TRY BEFORE YOU BUY [youtube url=...

1:30 PM

14. Celebrating Stenhammar

• Leah Broad
• Daniel Grimley
• Martin Sturfält
• Agnes Auer

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10 Oct 2021 13:30 | Jacqueline du Pré Music Building

1.30pm-2.30pm - Swedish Song: Broadening Horizons 3pm-4pm - Stenhammar: A Swedish Voice The Swedish composer Wilhelm Stenhammar, born 150 years ago, was one of the finest song composers of his generation and would surely be mentioned in the same breath as his more famous contemporaries if Swedish-language song was better known. To introduce this two-part event, Leah Broad, Daniel Grimley ...

11:00 AM

25a. Wandering Winter Poets: Heine & Müller

• Malachy Frame
• Joanna Neilly
• Satoshi Kubo

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12 Oct 2021 11:00 | Jacqueline du Pré Music Building

This event is in two parts. One ticket give you access to both parts. 25a: 11am - 12pm, Wandering Winter Poets: Heine & Müller 25b: 3.15pm - 4.15pm, The Wanderer Click here for details about part 2 (event 25b).  “I am vain enough to think that one day, when we are both gone, my name will be mentioned alongside yours.” Thus wrote Heinrich Hei...

3:15 PM

25b. The Wanderer

• Malachy Frame
• Joanna Neilly
• Satoshi Kubo

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12 Oct 2021 15:15 | Jacqueline du Pré Music Building

This event is in two parts. One ticket gives you access to both parts. 25a: 11am - 12pm, Wandering Winter Poets: Heine & Müller 25b: 3.15pm - 4.15pm, The Wanderer Please see 25a: Wandering Winter Poets: Heine & Müller for ticket information   Joanna Neilly continues to explore some of the key features of German romanticism: in t...

11:00 AM

37a. Kerner, Keats and the Physician Poet

• Natasha Loges
• Dafydd Jones
• Avishka Edirisinghe

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14 Oct 2021 11:00 | Jacqueline du Pré Music Building

This event is in two parts; one ticket covers both parts. 37a: 11am - 12pm, Kerner, Keats and the Physician Poet 37b: 3.15pm - 4.15pm, The Original (anti-) Vaxxers Click here for details about part 2 (event 37b). Today’s two-part Song Connections event is led by Natasha Loges and presented in association with the Royal College of Music. Natasha explores where m...

3:15 PM

37b. The Original (Anti-) Vaxxers

• Natasha Loges
• Avishka Edirisinghe
• Esme Bronwen-Smith
• Andrew Pollard

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14 Oct 2021 15:15 | Jacqueline du Pré Music Building

This event is in two parts; one ticket covers both parts. 37a: 11am - 12pm, Kerner, Keats and the Physician Poet 37b: 3.15pm - 4.15pm, The Original (anti-) Vaxxers See 37a: Kerner, Keats and the Physician Poet for ticket information. The use of words and music to persuade people of the safety and efficacy of vaccines is not a solely modern phenomenon. Edward Jenner &...

1:30 PM

51. Harry T Burleigh

• Jean E. Snyder
• Louise Toppin
• Ann Sears
• Alan Williams

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16 Oct 2021 13:30 | Jacqueline du Pré Music Building

Harry T Burleigh was one of the most influential figures in the history of American song: an African American composer and singer whose works were performed far and wide and helped shape the sound of American music. Burleigh was hugely well-known as a singer (he travelled extensively in Europe and the UK, singing for King Edward VII and visiting Oxford) and he wrote songs that were widely ...