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KEELE MUSIC FORUM
CONCERT: MICHAEL BELL
AND PETER SEABOURNE
Wednesday 21 February 2018 | 1:15pm-3pm
KEELE UNIVERSITY CHAPEL
£15
PROGRAMME
£8 STUDENT
CONCESSION
Soler
3 Sonatas
Seabourne Steps Volume 3:
Arabesques
Mompou
Scènes d’enfants
De Falla
Fantasia Baetica
FREE
16 AND
UNDER AND
KEELE MUSIC
STUDENTS
Composer Peter Seabourne will introduce
his piano cycle Arabesques which was
initially inspired by the landscapes of
the Alhambra in Granada. The individual
pieces were subsequently developed
to reflect a series of paintings of the
Alahambra by Anne Seabourne. The
premiere of ‘Arabesques’ in Leeds
2014, was given alongside the opening
exhibition of the paintings and with
images of each picture projected
simultaneously during the performance.
KEELE CONCERTS
KABANTU
Wednesday 14 February 2018 | 7:30pm
WESTMINSTER THEATRE, KEELE UNIVERSITY
Mixing world, folk, jazz and classical, Kabantu’s compositions don’t
meet purist genre definition. Reigniting traditional songs written over
the last century, everybody in Kabantu uses their voice to sing, scat
and stutter alongside their instruments, which includes percussion,
double bass, cello, violin, guitar and banjo. Kabantu, means ‘of the
people’, in a hybrid of Sotho and Zulu from South Africa – the birthplace
of cellist and vocalist, Abel. Yet it’s cosmopolitan Manchester and the
group’s experiences in the city that is their ultimate inspiration for
forming Kabantu. They embrace the inclusivity they feel living in
the north’s chief city.
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Delia (percussion) and Katie
(violin) are BBC Young Musician
and BBC Scotland Young
Traditional Musician of the
Year finalists. Delia and Abel
are both RNCM Gold Medal
Winners, the highest platform
available to soloists.
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This will be replicated in today’s
performance.
FREE
The programme is made up with three
sonatas by Padre Antonio Soler (1729-
1783) whose early keyboard style, like
Scarlatti anticipates and would continue
to influence keyboard writing for
centuries to come.
The Catalan composer Mompou was
an ardent Francophile; after his studies
in Paris has been interrupted by the
outbreak of the First World War, he
would return to live and work there from
1921-1941. Mompou returned to his home
city of Barcelona where he stayed until
his death in June 1987. Scènes d’enfants
were composed in 1917 and in spite of
their French titles the images of children
at play in the street on beaches and
finally in gardens are deeply imbued with
Catalan rhythmic impulse and perfume.
De Falla’s virtuosic Fantasia Baetica is his
largest single piece for piano. Baetica is
the roman name for Andalusia and Falla
pays homage to the latin-Andalusian
race. Completed in 1919, it was
commissioned by and dedicated to
Artur Rubinstein.
Piano – Michael Bell
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