The Past & I Tour CONCERT TICKET - Dorchester, 28th July 2024, 7.45pm
Lotte Betts-Dean and James Girling perform The Past & I as part our of our album release tour. See www.arthurkeegan.co.uk/the-past--i
St. Michael's Church, Stinsford, Dorchester 7.45-8.45pm, Sunday 28th July 2024
In this exciting, unique collaboration, critically acclaimed singer Lotte Betts-Dean (winner of the 2024 Royal Philharmonic Society Young Artist Award) and outstanding Norway/UK guitarist James Girling invite you on a journey with Thomas Hardy through songs of the 20th century inspired by his words and the local Dorset landscape.
The project is the brainchild of composer Arthur Keegan in collaboration with the performers, and it includes new arrangements of beloved songs by Britten and Finzi, alongside beautiful songs – long forgotten and only recently unearthed – composed by quiet luminaries Imogen Holst, Ivor Gurney, Robin Milford and Muriel Herbert. There is also stunning new music by Kerry Andrew and an elegiac song cycle by Arthur Keegan.