Schedule

Live performance on BBC Radio3 InTune, and an interview with Katie Derham.

Dorothy Howell's World

The Berkeley Ensemble has long championed the music of Dorothy Howell and in this concert presents Howell in her milieu, with her music alongside works by her teacher at the Royal Academy of Music, John Blackwood McEwen, her friend Herbert Howell and that of Edward Elgar, a towering figure of her earlier life, and whose grave she tended in the Malvern Hills.

Works by R.S. Coke tbc.

Concert on 2 May:

Music in Auschwitz

Incredibly, there were orchestras in most Nazi concentration camps – music became a means of control. Popular ballads conjured an illusion of normality for camp arrivals, while marching tunes imposed order on slave labourers. On Sundays, performing prisoners were forced to entertain their tormentors. By using the testimony of musicians at Auschwitz and the pieces they played, this concert honours their memory and the lives of the millions who did not survive.