The festival at a glance
Artists included (in order of appearance])The Dante Quartet, David Gamie organ, Rivka Golani viola, Raphael Wallfisch cello, Nikolai Demidenko piano, Christopher Maltman baritone, Julius Drake piano, Richard Watkins horn, Jack Glatzer violin, Piers Lane piano, Andrew Marriner clarinette, Maggie Cole harpsichord.
The Burning Bush Klezmer Band, the Tony Kinsey All Star Jazz Orchestra, and actors Timothy West in ‘Corno di Bassetto’ about Bernard Shaw as music critic, and Henry Goldman in a story of Violet Gordon Woodhouse, the much admired harpsichordist who lived with four men in a ménage a cinq!, added spice and variety greatly appreciated by enthusiastic audiences.
“I hate music, especially when it is played.”
Jimmy Durante
“The man that hath no music in himself
Nor is not mov’d by concord of sweet sounds,
Is for treasons, strategems, and spoils;
The motions of his spirit are dull as night,
And his affections dark as Erebus;
Let no such man be trusted. - Mark the music”
William Shakespeare, The Merchant of Venice
“Classical music is the kind we keep thinking will turn into a tune”
Kin Hubbard
“Hell is full of musical amateurs.”
Bernard Shaw
“Paganini never repeats” Portuguese saying
“I don’t know anything about music, In my line you don’t have to.”
Elvis Presley
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