Art Sung At York Unitarians – 7 Dec 2024

Art Sung At York Unitarians – 7 Dec 2024 at 7:30pm

Tickets:- https://latemusic.org/product/art-sung-concert-tickets-sat-7-dec-730pm/

Edith Sitwell, Behind her Façade –

Celebrating the 60th anniversary of poet Edith Sitwell’s death, Art Sung presents an imaginative programme celebrating the relationship between music, poetry, literature and visual arts. Including song settings by William Walton, Britten, Erik Satie & Noel Coward, the concert will feature photography, 3D imagery and video, interweaved with Sitwell’s iconic work, Façade.

Programme:

Art Sung – Edith Sitwell, Behind her Façade
Movements from Façade by William Walton and Edith Sitwell (arranged from piano
duet by Constant Lambert) will include:
Popular Song, Fox-Trot, Swiss Jodelling Song, Scotch Rhapsody, and Valse

Piano Duets:

Erik Satie – (extracts from the ballet) “Parade”
Leonard Bernstein – America from West Side Story

Songs will include:

“Rhyme”, “The Contrast” and “Daphne” by William Walton.
Extracts from Canticle III, Op 55, “Still falls the rain”, by Benjamin Britten
“You, the young rainbow” and “The Youth with the Red-Gold hair” by Ned Rorem
“The King of China’s Daughter” by Michael Head
“When Sir Beelzebub” by Robert Marchant
“Be a strange bird in a tame pond” and “Edith Regina” by Hayley Jenkins
“Pavel…You’ by Dominique le Gendre
“Bells of Grey Crystal” by Lloyd Moore
Extract from “Lady Macbeth” by Joseph Horovitz
“Poor little rich girl” by Noël Coward