Details
St George's Bristol
Great George Street
Bristol
BS1 5RR
England
Programme
Erik Satie – Memoirs of a Pear-Shaped Life (dramatised piano recital)
Performers
Anne Lovett – piano
Allan Corduner – Actor
Max Hoehn – Artistic Director
Programme Note
We mark Erik Satie’s 150th birthday with this ‘theatrecital’ (a dramatised piano recital ― or play with a lot of music in it). Directed by rising star Max Hoehn, winner of the 2015 Independent Opera Director Fellowship, ‘Memoirs of a Pear-Shaped Life’ brings together the autobiographical musings of an ageing Satie with a broad selection of his piano music. From the early Gnossiennes and Gymnopedies to the more whimsical and experimental miniatures of later years, they are played here by Anne Lovett – like Satie himself, a composer-pianist from Normandy.
Devised and written by Meurig Bowen.