Wilkommen, Bienvenue, Welcome - Songs From the Viaduct
Feb
5

Wilkommen, Bienvenue, Welcome - Songs From the Viaduct

You’re invited to a world of cabaret, where satire meets sentiment and music mirrors societies joys and fractures. Originating in the smoky cafes of late 19th century Paris and Berlin, Cabaret thrived on subversion, storytelling and immediacy. Its songs were personal and political, delivered with a wink or a tear. 

Over time, the spirit of cabaret found its way to the concert stage. Tonight our program will trace that journey. Its witty charm, vulnerability and directness has been embraced in Kurt Weill’s Youkali and Britten’s Funeral Blues. We cross the Atlantic to the American Songbook, where cabaret’s sophistication and theatric flair shine under the lights of Broadway through the music of Gershwin and Cole Porter. The Golden Age of American songwriting brought cabaret into conversation with jazz, giving rise to timeless songs like Puttin’ on the Ritz and Moon River.  

From Hannigan to Streisand, Piaf and Minelli, we welcome you to an evening of irony, intimacy, grit and glamour. 

Performance by Karla Grant, Soprano and Abhisri Chaudhuri, Piano

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A Note From Home - Songs from the Viaduct
Jul
24

A Note From Home - Songs from the Viaduct

This recital celebrates the rich emotional nature of folk song through the lens of both Scottish tradition and the refined artistry of Maurice Ravel in honour of his 150th birthday this year. The program tells the story of life through love, from secretive midnight meetings to the untimely pain of heartbreak.  

Hailing from Scotland, Karla and Abhisri present a programme of a Scots song, from Robert Burns,  George Francis Scott and Lady John Scott, featuring arrangements written by Abhisri performed for the first time here at Holy Sepulchre Church. We journey through the Mediterranean where Ravel’s cinq mélodies populaires grecques capture the landscapes and rhyming dances of Greece. In an ode to death, we venture to Ravel's Hebrew songs before returning to Scottish soil with the beloved Words of Robert Burns with music from Britten and Quilter.  

 Threaded through the program is a subtle nod to the drone - a continuous note that hums throughout like a grounding that sing quietly from home.

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