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Cécile Chaminade sank into obscurity |
Chaminade back on centre stage
PREVIEW - DREAN MUSIC
Burgh House
BURGH House is hosting something a little bit different
this weekend as it explores the little-known life and career
of a French female composer.
Women composers all seem to somehow get overlooked and pushed
to the sidelines – only Clara Schumann seems to get recognition
and even then she is overshadowed by her more famous husband.
Cécile Chaminade was a prolific French composer, publishing
more than 400 pieces in her lifetime. By trade a pianist, she
was only eight when some of her pieces were performed to an
impressed Georges Bizet.
Despite hugely successful tours throughout France and the United
States her work, mainly for piano and the voice, she has sunk
into obscurity, perhaps her most famous work it her Flute Concertino.
But her lyrical and elegant music is taking centre stage at
the Hampstead house on Sunday when pianist Carol Wells is joined
by actress Stella Quilley in an event of music and theatre.
Quilley will star as Cécile Chaminade, who died in 1944,
recounting her life while Wells will provide the music.
A welcome chance to discover Chaminade’s underplayed music. |
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