Meeting of Minds with Ailish Tynan and Jocelyn Freeman at The Menuhin Hall, Cobham on Tuesday 29th November 2022

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Meeting of Minds with Ailish Tynan and Jocelyn Freeman

Add to my Calendar 29-11-2022 19:30 29-11-2022 21:30 36 Meeting of Minds with Ailish Tynan and Jocelyn Freeman This recital celebrates a notorious dinner meeting in Paris at the Majestic Hotel in May 1922, hosted by Violet and Sydney Schiff following the premiere of Igor Stravinsky’s Le Renard. Among the guests were Marcel Proust, James Joyce, Pablo Picasso, and Sergei Diaghilev, and this concert pays homage to the legendary creative partnerships forged at this meeting. Irish soprano Ailish Tynan won the 2003 Rosenblatt Recital Song Prize at BBC Cardiff Singer of the World, was a member of the prestigious Vilar Young Artist Programme at the Royal Opera House, Covent Garden and a BBC New Generation Artist. She is joined in recital by the award-winning Welsh collaborative pianist and conductor Jocelyn Freeman, founder and Artistic Director of SongEasel, who is described by Gramophone magazine as “… ever-sensitive… exemplary, whether taking the lead or in discreet support.” The Menuhin Hall, Cobham DD/MM/YYYY

Details

The Menuhin Hall
The Yehudi Menuhin School
Stoke Road
Stoke D'Abernon
Cobham
Surrey
KT11 3QQ
England

Tuesday 29th November 2022
7:30 PM

Programme

Francis Poulenc – 3 Poèmes de Louise de Vilmorin, FP 91
Aaron Copland – Old American Songs: selection
John Cage – The Wonderful Widow of Eighteen Springs
Samuel Barber – Nuvoletta, Op.25
Samuel Barber – Solitary Hotel, Op.41 no.4
Frank Bridge – Goldenhair, H.165
Gabriel Fauré – Cinq Mélodies 'de Venise', Op.58 (1891)
Francis Poulenc – Fiançailles pour rire, FP 101

Performers

Ailish Tynan – Voice
Jocelyn Freeman – Piano

Programme Note

This recital celebrates a notorious dinner meeting in Paris at the Majestic Hotel in May 1922, hosted by Violet and Sydney Schiff following the premiere of Igor Stravinsky’s Le Renard. Among the guests were Marcel Proust, James Joyce, Pablo Picasso, and Sergei Diaghilev, and this concert pays homage to the legendary creative partnerships forged at this meeting. Irish soprano Ailish Tynan won the 2003 Rosenblatt Recital Song Prize at BBC Cardiff Singer of the World, was a member of the prestigious Vilar Young Artist Programme at the Royal Opera House, Covent Garden and a BBC New Generation Artist. She is joined in recital by the award-winning Welsh collaborative pianist and conductor Jocelyn Freeman, founder and Artistic Director of SongEasel, who is described by Gramophone magazine as “… ever-sensitive… exemplary, whether taking the lead or in discreet support.”

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