Viva Brighton Issue #69 November 2018

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LEWES CHAMBER MUSIC FESTIVAL C hristmas C oncert 1st December 7:30pm Trinity St John sub Castro, Lewes Schubert Beethoven Ysaÿe Mozart Maria Wloszczowska, Tim Crawford, Beatrice Philips - violin James Boyd, Adam Newman - viola Hannah Sloane - cello Come and join musicians from the Lewes Chamber Music Festival for their annual Christmas fundraising concert! Mulled wine and mince pies included TICKETS: £15 || FREE for 8-26yrs www.leweschambermusicfestival.com Charity No 1151928 01273 479865 and at Baldwins Travel
CLASSICAL ............................. Brighton Early Music Festival Early music, contemporary themes The Brighton Early Music Festival reaches its climax this month with a concert entitled Reformation Remainers: Musicians, zealots and loyalists in Tudor England. When I talked to Artistic Director Deborah Roberts it was clear that Brexit, and parallels with Reformation England, are much on her mind. “Musicians have always been migrants. If freedom of movement becomes restricted, what will it mean for them?” BREMF started the way so many creative projects start – the question “what if...?” over a cup of coffee. Singers Deborah Roberts and Clare Norburn had recently met; Deborah was a member of top vocal group The Tallis Scholars, but, she says, “interested in more than just singing.” The women discovered a shared desire to bring early music (from the 12th to the 18th centuries) to a wider audience – both listening and performing. From its beginnings in 2002 the Festival has morphed into Brighton Early Music – a yearround programme of concerts, workshops and educational outreach, with several choirs drawn from the community and a mentoring scheme for young musicians. The appeal is broad. Many BREMF Community Choir members join without being able to read music, “but they want to learn, and they do. There’s a thirst for this. Not all newcomers to choirs want to just sing show songs.” Fine musical programming is one part of the mix, then there’s the drama. “It’s vital to inject contemporary energy into the music – the same energy it would have had five or six hundred years ago.” explains Deborah. “Most of this music was never meant to be listened to in the traditional concert setting we see today, with the audience sitting silently.” Strong themes and unconventional stagings are characteristic of BREMF events. This year features a Swedish wedding celebration at which the audience sits cabaret-style, eating and drinking while the music is performed around them. “Dressing up is encouraged!” Deborah assures me. At another concert you’ll encounter street dance. And young musicians taking part in BREMF Live! will sing and play in city pubs. It’s classical music, but possibly not as we know it. Reformation Remainers features three English composers who were writing in times of religious and political upheaval. The Catholic John Taverner converted to Protestantism – at which point, Deborah tells me, he stopped writing. Thomas Tallis was also Catholic but “took the strategic view”. And William Byrd was Protestant, but converted. It’s not difficult to find hidden political messages in much of the music of this period, according to Deborah, “as well as sorrow at what the country was going through.” You can hear the BREMF Consort of Voices directed by Deborah Roberts in the dramatic interior of St Bartholomew’s on 10th November. “St Bart’s is great – you can perform from different spaces, have the sound circling around the audience. There’s an element of surprise,” says Deborah, “and ultimately it’s an uplifting message – there’s always music. And there’s more to music than pop.” Robin Houghton St Bartholomew’s Church, 10th Nov, 7.30pm. Tickets £18, under 12s free. bremf.org.uk ....55....
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