Out of the Shadows
An evening of music by contemporary composer Robert Hugill for LGBT History Month
'I myself am such a man' - From the twilight world of the 19th & early 20th century homosexual to a desperate search for eternal life.
The concert the world premieres of two cantatas alongside a selection of Robert's songs including settings of Michelangelo, Lord Alfred Douglas and Carl Cook, performed by Ben Vonberg-Clark (tenor), James Atkinson (baritone) and Nigel Foster (piano).
Out of the Shadows takes us from the earliest tentative admissions of same sex attraction, to cruising in a bath house in Imperial Russia to Walt Whitman's unashamed admission of his sexuality.
Et expecto resurrectionem mortuorum moves between the certainty of the Latin creed, to explorations of cryogenic, the body-snatching of Burke and Hare and Mary Shelley's Frankenstein, before resolving in the homoerotic pantheistic transcendentalism of Walt Whitman with its celebration of Death itself.
Further information from my website.
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