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In Springtime

Join us for a joyful musical celebration of the awakening of nature. This programme for piano, voice and oboe reflects on Easter and joyfully moves into Spring, with music by Bach, Schumann, Haydn and Mozart interlaced with more contemporary composers such as Golijov, Respighi, Vaughan Williams and Poulenc.

ARTISTS

Susanne Mecklenburg | voice

William Hancox | piano

Sophie Hebden | oboe

PERFORMANCES

Dorchester Abbey

Dorchester-on-Thames, High St. Dorchester on Thames, OX10 7HH, Springtime

Wednesday, 6th April 2022, 19:00, tickets including aperitif on ticketsource

Over The Moon

The Moon inspires a certain fascination: it’s distant, it’s mystic, it’s secretive. We only ever see one side of the Moon from Earth. In 2019 it was 50 years since the first human set foot on the Moon. This musical Moon programme celebrates and explores the origins of the Moon’s enchantment over us. The space race, fly me to the Moon - our everlasting fascination with travelling to the Moon, Jules Verne’s “From the Earth to the Moon”, romantic Moon gazing, sleep, dreams and the Sandman, moonlight and lotus flowers, Galileo and his Moon mapping, the European Space Agency’s Moon village, the dark side of the Moon, werewolves, tides and eclipses, supernatural powers, mythology, Eagles that landed, Apollo the god of music … and many other references in historic and contemporary culture. But - how did they make it into music? This is what we will tell in our programme, combined with some beautiful photography and other special visual and musical effects.