Very Special Recital dedicated to Anne Hancox

During the weekend of 22-23 February there will be two opportunities to attend a very special recital as part of the Bayle Music  and Canterbury Music Club 2024-5 seasons dedicated in memoriam Anne (Hancox) whose love of words and music manifested itself so wonderfully both in her dramatic performances and singing. Both concerts are at 15.00.

The programme reflects the passion she displayed for the connection between words and music including as it does, songs that she loved, studied and performed whilst the Sitwell texts of Façade , to the music of William Walton,  she narrated on three occasions in performances that we shared together.

Additionally all the celebrated musicians performing during the weekend were associated with Anne throughout our life spent together in Canterbury and for the past nine years in Folkestone.

It is both humbling and a great pleasure to have the opportunity to draw together these threads of a life so well lived in words and music through the wonderful performers who will be singing and playing this every special concert.

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The programme:

Songs of Travel                                                          Vaughan Williams

Matthew Rose and Anna Tilbrook

Three songs by Gabriel Fauré

Linda Hirst and Anna Tilbrook

Chanson d’amour

Les berceux

Automne

Down by the Salley Gardens                                     Benjamin Britten

Sea Fever                                                                    John Ireland

An die Musik                                                               Franz Schubert

Matthew Rose and Anna Tilbrook

Interval

Façade an Entertainment                                          Walton

Linda Hirst and Matthew Rose narrators

Grand Mansions Collective

Directed by Anna Tilbrook

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Please do come in memoriam Anne.

Tickets are on sale now;

For Folkestone     https://www.ticketsource.co.uk/bayle-music

For Canterbury 

https://thegulbenkian.co.uk/events/canterbury-music-club-facade/

Following each concert there will be a collection for Motor Neurone Disease Research

https://www.mndassociation.org

Grenville