STOLEN YEARS
In 1937, East Coast journalist and artist Archie White commissioned the yacht Concord from Harry King’s boatyard at Pinmill in Suffolk. His lovingly kept record of Concord’s early years provides a window onto a lost world touched by the shadow of war.
I now own Concord and have brought her story to life in Stolen Years. Extracts from Concord’s original logbooks provide the framework for a concert of music ranging from the lute fantasias of John Dowland and the haunting writing of Benjamin Britten through to traditional music and sea songs, interwoven with poetry by W.H. Auden, Louis MacNeice and Philip Larkin.
Suitable for the stage or the most intimate private event this performance reignites the art of storytelling with music.
Programme
Praeludium – John Dowland
A Fancy – John Dowland
Fantasia – John Dowland
Bagatelle No 2 – William Walton
Colour Sepia – Maximo Diego Pujol
Stormy Weather – Traditional Sea Shanty
Astridan’s Valse – Traditional
Un dia de Noviembre – Leo Brouwer
Nocturnal after John Dowland – mvts. 1 11 111 V – Benjamin Britten
Bagatelle No 3 – Walton
Reprise of Un dia de Noviembre – Brouwer
Flow my Tears – John Dowland
Come heavy sleep – John Dowland
Mayfly – Louis MacNeice
Cut Grass – Phillip Larkin
Fragment from ‘A Summer’s Night’ – W H Auden
Though I am 80 years old – Anon
Fragment from ‘ A Summer’s Night’ – W H Auden
River in Spate – Louis MacNeice
When You See Millions of the Mouthless Dead – Charles Hamilton
Fragment from ‘Autumn Journal’ – Louis MacNeice
In Concord and in Peace – Archie White