Coffee, Camaraderie and Chamber Music
in Chalvington, Laughton and Ripe.
in Chalvington, Laughton and Ripe.
Join us for a bite-size taster of the biennial Villages Music Festival, as we usher in autumn with an Anglo-French flourish.
Find out about Dame Felicity Lott, our stellar singer-patron, and her lifelong fascination with French music...
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...before local opera legend, Stephen Rooke, performs Vaughan Williams' stunning song cycle, On Wenlock Edge, alongside The Lark Ascending and Ravel's luscious string quartet.
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Sunday's centrepiece is a screening of Ravel's Brain, a mesmerising account of Ravel's final years; before our mini-festival is danced out - by wonderful local troupe, Universal Dance - to the hypnotic strains of Ravel's most famous work, Boléro.
Une Entente Cordiale
In January 1908, Vaughan Williams put his life on hold to go and spend three months studying with Ravel in Paris. Our Saturday evening concert celebrates this entente cordiale: the unlikely cross-channel friendship between our respective nations' two most quintessential 20th-century composers: genial and gentlemanly Ralph Vaughan Williams and suave and sophisticated Maurice Ravel.
In January 1908, Vaughan Williams put his life on hold to go and spend three months studying with Ravel in Paris. Our Saturday evening concert celebrates this entente cordiale: the unlikely cross-channel friendship between our respective nations' two most quintessential 20th-century composers: genial and gentlemanly Ralph Vaughan Williams and suave and sophisticated Maurice Ravel.
RVW described Ravel as being “the man who is exactly what I was looking for”, whilst Ravel apparently said of RVW that he was “le seul de mes élèves qui n'écrit pas ma musique” ("the only one of my pupils who doesn't write my music").