Words of Women

Words of Women

Susanna MacRae Soprano

Claire Habbershaw Piano
 

Afternoon Concert with tea and cake

Programme to include:

Songs               
Ayres                     Anti-Suffragist Reasons (Poems of AD Miller)
Copland                Selections: 12 Poems of Emily Dickinson
Dove                      Five Am'rous sighs (Lady Montagu Wortley)
Massenet              Sérénade d'automne (Mme. Blanchecotte)
Philips                    An Amherst Bestiary (Emily Dickinson)
Schumann            Gedichte der Königin Maria Stuart, Op.135

Piano
C Schumann         Romance from 4 Pieces Caractéristiques Larghetto in F from 4 Pieces Fugitives

Harding                 Reverie

This concert is being promoted this in collaboration with Evesham’s Festival of Words. Through the ‘words of women’ in poems, letters and musical extracts, Susanna MacRae (soprano and Royal College of Music graduate) and pianist Claire Habbershaw (pianist and Guildhall Scholar) explore the relationship between music and literature. Texts by Anne Boleyn, Emile Bronte, Emily Dickenson, Alice Duer Miller and Christina Rosetti.

PROMOTED IN COLLABORATION WITH