Small Performing Arts Event of the Year 2023
(seventh annual Greater London Enterprise Awards)
Live Concerts
Ursula & Ralph Vaughan Williams
– available online from Friday 13th January for 30 days
A programme telling the story of Ursula and Ralph’s relationship told through Ralph’s songs, settings of Ursula’s poetry by Roderick Williams (a London Song Festival commission premiered at this concert in October), Jonathan Dove and others, and Ursula and Ralph’s own words taken from his letters and her biography of him and other sources.
‘Twin’ Ursulas played by Lotte Betts-Dean (mezzo-soprano) and Harriet Collings (actress)
‘Twin’ Ralphs played by Julien Van Mellaerts (baritone) and John D Collins (actor)
With Nigel Foster (piano)
Paul Laurence Dunbar & Samuel Coleridge-Taylor concert
- available online from 20th January for 30 days
Sung by the Gweneth Ann Rand and Ronald Samm, with Michael Harper speaking, and Nigel Foster playing. This concert includes all of Coleridge-Taylor’s African Romances, and other settings of Dunbar’s poetry by Florence Price (including her setting of the famous poem “I know what the caged bird feels”), William Grant Still, Betty Jackson King and other composers, and the premiere of “We wear the mask”, specially written for this concert by Robert Hugill.
