...to encourage the communication of English words, in singing and speech, with clarity, understanding and imagination...
Unsung Heroes 2024
Sun 25 Feb
|Craxton Studios
The composers to be celebrated will still be Geoffrey Bush, Lennox Berkeley and Madeleine Dring, and now there is more time to explore their music, or rifle through your music drawers to see if you have any of their songs lurking there. These three composers all deserve to be sung more than they are
Time & Location
25 Feb 2024, 10:30 – 16:30 GMT
Craxton Studios, 14 Kidderpore Ave, London NW3 7SU, UK
Guests
About the event
UNSUNG HEROES
Too many composers of English Song enjoy a brief period of publication and performance and then fall into obscurity. The AESS ‘Unsung Heroes’ days aim to re-awaken interest in some who deserve a better hearing.
LENNOX BERKELEY, GEOFFREY BUSH, MADELEINE DRING are our featured composers.
Members gather to perform some of their songs along with readings about their lives and works.
In an additional short feature, ‘Brief Candles’, we will hear the performers’ own favourites, with songs and poems from a wide range of writers whom, they feel may be unjustly neglected,
Date: Sunday February 25th Time:10.30 am - 4.30pm. Coffee will be served on arrival.