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Milton Court Concert Hall
Silk St
Barbican
London
EC2Y 9BH
England
Programme
Hildegard of Bingen – O virga mediatrix
Ethel Smyth – Komm, süsser Tod
Clara Schumann – Abendfeier in Venedig, Op.19 no.1
Fanny Mendelssohn – Nachtreigen
Raphaella Aleotti – Surge, Propera
Maddalena Casulana – Morir non puo
Kerry Andrew – Wild Nights - Wild Nights!
Shruthi Rajasekar – I Am My Own
~ Interval ~
Ethel Smyth – The March of the Women
CN Lester – Ethel Smyth on Freedom
Marie-Claire Saindon – The Imaginary Garden
Mari Esabel Valverde – Darest, O soul
Cecilia McDowall – Regina Caeli
Joanna Marsh – All Shall be Well
Performers
Juliet Stevenson – Narrator
Sanchia McCormack – Narrator
Jamie Powe – Conductor
The Fourth Choir
Programme Note
For its 10th anniversary concert, The Fourth Choir, London’s LGBT+ classical choir, celebrates the Life, Loves and Legacy of Dame Ethel Smyth
Dame Ethel Smyth - suffragette, passionate bisexual and the first female composer to be made a Dame of the British Empire - provides the inspiration for a journey through a thousand years of choral masterpieces.
We’ll hear music from the Middle Ages, the Renaissance, the 19th century and the present day, including two world premieres, specially commissioned for this concert: a setting of poetry by Emily Dickinson by composer Kerry Andrew, and a special collaboration that pairs words by actor and poet Ashleigh Wilder with music by singer-songwriter and activist CN Lester.
The life of Ethel Smyth, the history preceding her and her legacy to the present day will be narrated by leading actors on stage and screen Juliet Stevenson (Truly, Madly, Deeply; Wolf) and Sanchia McCormack (Doctor Who, Wallander).
The Choir returns to Milton Court after its ground-breaking collaboration last October with Deaf professional musicians. This concert also marks a new chapter in the Choir's history - the first performance led by its newly-appointed Music Director, Jamie Powe.
