Sunday 14 August 2016

Somewhere for the weekend: Rye Arts Festival

Rye
Rye
You never really need an excuse to visit Rye, but the Rye Arts Festival (17 September to 1 October 2016) just makes the prospect more tempting. Euphonia (which we saw recently in Gluck's Iphigenie en Tauride) are performing Britten's The Turn of the Screw and Donizetti's Don Pasquale. Rather aptly The Turn of the Screw is based on the story by Henry James, who lived in Rye. ( And this year is the centenary of Henry James' death. Plus Myfanwy Piper, who wrote the libretto, was married to John Piper, who also lived in Rye for a spell - see comments)

Other events include light opera, comedy and song from Perfect Fifth (Harriet Jones (soprano), Caroline Jones (Alto), Greg Tassell (tenor) and Rupert Reid (baritone)), accompanied by Belinda Jones (piano)) including songs by local composer George Newson, Kaleidescope Saxophone Quartet, plus recitals from Polish soprano Anna Szalucka, the Busch Trio (Anthony Marwood (violin) and Aleksandar Madžar (piano)), Adrian Chandler and La Serenissima, Tzu-Yin Huang (piano), and the Wihan Strng Quartet.

Choral events include evensong in St Mary's Church, Rye, sung by Chichester Cathedral Choir and Peter Philips conducting a choir made of performers from The Cantate Choir, Straight 8 and Tongswood Chamber Choir in large scale polyphonic music including Tallis's Spem in alium

Non-musical events include a tour of churches in Romney Marsh, a tour of cellars in Winchelsea and a walk through World War II Rye

3 comments:

  1. Thanks Robert! Much appreciated. Incidentally, this year is the centenary of Henry James' death. Plus Myfanwy Piper, who wrote the libretto, was married to John Piper, who also lived in Rye for a spell!

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  2. Thanks Robert! Much appreciated. Incidentally, this year is the centenary of Henry James' death. Plus Myfanwy Piper, who wrote the libretto, was married to John Piper, who also lived in Rye for a spell!

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