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Classical Music

Songs for New Life & Love, Wigmore Hall

On 15 Feb 18, 7:30 PM – 9:30 PM

The joy and pain of motherhood are woven into song by exciting new composer Helen Grime

By Claudia Pritchard on 3/2/2018

Helen Grime is composer in residence at Wigmore Hall. Photo: Jonathan Wrather
Helen Grime is composer in residence at Wigmore Hall. Photo: Jonathan Wrather
Songs for New Life & Love, Wigmore Hall Songs for New Life & Love, Wigmore Hall Claudia Pritchard
At Wigmore Hall, the human story from cradle to grave is being celebrated in music (10 – 24 Feb). And in this Seven Ages Festival, you can catch the world premiere of composer in residence Helen Grime's new piece, Songs for New Life & Love,


Specially commissioned for the soprano Ruby Hughes, a young mother herself, the work sets to music poems about the joy and pain of parenthood, taken from Fiona Benson's Bright Travellers.


'It was always like this,' wrote Benson in Breastfeeding from the 2014 anthology. 'A long line of women / sitting and kneeling, / out of their skins / with love and exhaustion.' Other poems in Bright Travellers include Childbed and Cradlecap. Since the classical music world is still dominated by male conductors and composers, if not players, women will particularly enjoy this rare exploration of little recorded parts of life.


Other works include songs by Schumann and Mahler's moving Kindertotenlieder, before, in the second half of the programme, songs by Charles Ives that include Songs My Mother Taught Me. Helen Grime's Bright Travellers is followed by four songs by Benjamin Britten.


A highly recommended evening for those who know there is more to life than music's well-worn male themes.


Before the concert in a pre-concert talk at 6pm, Helen Grime and Fiona Benson talk about parenthood, motherhood and their roles in creating art.
by Claudia Pritchard

What Songs for New Life & Love, Wigmore Hall
Where Wigmore Hall, 36 Wigmore Street, London, W1U 2BP | MAP
Nearest tube Bond Street (underground)
When On 15 Feb 18, 7:30 PM – 9:30 PM
Price £15 - £38
Website Click here for more information and booking



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