Discover Conway Hall in a series of exclusive tours for Open House London. Artistic Director Simon Callaghan will introduce the sublime acoustics of the Main Hall – home to Europe’s longest-running chamber music series. Discover the Library and Archives with Librarian Olwen Terris, and explore the home of the UK’s most comprehensive humanist archival collection. Along the way, hear some of the stories of the people who have walked its floors, and those who helped to make Conway Hall Ethical Society what it is today.
After your tour, drop in to the Brockway Room to see a pop-up display of material from our archives, including original plans and drawings, tracing the history of the building back to its origins in 1929.
After the interval, Stephen Montague (composer, pianist and friend of Frederick Rzewski) will introduce the composer and his monumental work 'The People United'.
A short recital as part of Lucy Walker's study morning commemorating the 80th anniversary of the end of the Second World War. Viktor Ullman's 7th Piano Sonata was composed in August 1944 at the Theresienstadt Concentration Camp, just two months before the composer was murdered at Auschwitz.
