This is the last call for our Voice concert at the Highgate School Chapel at 7pm on Saturday – Clemmie, Victoria and Emily, some chilled white wine – and love songs through the ages. What else could you ask of a Saturday evening?
Book here or pay on the door (cash only) – £20 to include the wine!
Quick report………
I had a very busy evening last night checking in first at the Foundling Museum for Les Bougies Baroques musical duel – Domenico Scarlatti (aka Ian Peter Bugeja) versus the young Handel (aka Nathanial Mander – our spinet master on November 4th).
Les Bougies Baroques are a historical performance group whose mission is to uncover and celebrate queer lives and stories from the Georgian era – which they do with much panache and in full costume. This particular evening celebrated the harpsichord ‘duel’ instigated by Cardinal Pietro Ottoboni between the young Handel and the young Domenico, son of the great Alessandro, Scarlatti. And a fine duel it was too!
Handel (Nathaniel) with his back to us, Scarlatti (Ian Peter) in pink .
From Brunswick Square I hot footed it to the Albert Hall for a late night prom – Joanna Marsh’s SEEN, Jean-Yves Daniel-Lesure’s Le Cantique des Cantiques and, what I had gone for – Soumik Datta’s Awaaz.
Long time supporters of Salon Music may have been to one of the evenings on which Soumik played his sarod for us both here in Hampstead Lane and in Lawn Road before we moved – so they will know what a magical experience that is.
Awaaz is a piece for choir, sarod and tabla commissioned from Soumik by the BBC Singers last year for the 75th anniversary of the post independence partition of India in 1947. The partition ripped northern India apart, causing massive bloodshed, forcing thousands from their homes, separating families often for generations. Awaaz in Hindi means word. Soumik’s piece takes fragments of words torn apart by the partition and over, its course, gradually pulls them back into one glorious pulsating celebration.
I am sure you are not allowed to take videos in the Proms, but I sneaked a few seconds just to give you a tiny taste.
Upcoming concerts
24th September – Madeleine Mitchell and Richard Crabtree – Boccherini, Bartok, Bach – and Judith Weir.
Doors open at 6.30; concert to start at 7pm followd at 8.15 by a buffet supper.
For more details and to buy tickets go here.
22nd October – Highgate Society Sunday Lunchtime concerts.
The Ladies of the Salons Accompanied by Matt Redman, Patricia Hammond sings parlour songs from the 1830s to the 1930s.
For more information and to buy tickets
4th November – The baroque Spinet
Leading harpsichord player, Nathaniel Mander will be giving his new baroque spinet its very first London outing with us on November 4th.
A wonderfully baroque programme of music will be followed by an equally baroque supper which could have been enjoyed by any of our composers.
For more information and to buy tickets
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