Name: Quartet: An Evening of Words and Music - Summer at Snape
Start: 2023-08-09T00:00:00.000Z
End: 2023-08-09T00:00:00.000Z
Location: Snape Maltings Concert Hall

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Violinist

Fenella Humphreys

Violin

Pianist

Nicola Eimer

Piano

Instrumentalist

Singer

Britten Pears Arts

Quartet: An Evening of Words and Music - Summer at Snape

Snape

United Kingdom

Snape Maltings Concert Hall

Concert Hall

Quartet: An Evening of Words and Music - Summer at Snape: Violin Sonata, Op.7 Smyth (+5 More)

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Violin Sonata, Op.7

Violin Sonata

Midsummer Moon

Sonata movement in G major for violin and piano

The Moorings for Violin & Piano

Sonata for Violin and Piano

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Four extraordinary female composers are brought to life in Leah Broad’s new group biography Quartet – listen to a reading from this fascinating book enhanced with a bespoke violin and piano recital.

Ethel Smyth, Rebecca Clarke, Dorothy Howell and Doreen Carwithen have long been ghostly presences, surviving only as muses and footnotes to male contemporaries like Elgar, Vaughan Williams and Britten – until now.

This evening Fenella Humphreys and Nicola Eimer play music by all four women, while Leah Broad reads from the book, including the stories of Smyth’s suffrage involvement and Howell’s breakthrough success at the 1919 Proms. The book recounts lives of rebellion, heartbreak and ambition, and celebrates their musical masterpieces.

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Quartet: An Evening of Words and Music - Summer at Snape by Smyth, Carwithen, Clarke, Rebecca, Howell, D., From (2023/2023), Snape Maltings Concert Hall, Snape, United Kingdom

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