Recital: 24 May 2021 – Cambridge Crossing Borders Recital
Diasporic songs of Belonging: Judeo-Spanish women’s songs
Dr Vanessa Paloma Elbaz
Women's songs in the vernacular have served for centuries as spaces of intergenerational communication and for the sonic meeting of oral and written knowledge. Paloma Elbaz is one of the world's experts in Judeo-Spanish women's songs and is recognized internationally as a performer of this repertoire.
Recital: 17 May 2021
Estonian music for violin and piano. Violin – Ella Fraser; Piano – Julia De Luca
Frates | Arvo Pärt |
The Cock’s Dance | Eduard Tubin |
Recital: 10 May 2021
Second-year Music student, Emily Porter, presents a flute recital of pieces inspired by nature, including Messiaen's challenging 'Le Merle Noir'. With Jill Morton on piano.
Night Soliloquy | Kent Kennan |
Honami | Will Offermans |
Le Merle Noir | Olivier Messiaen |
Recital: 8 March 2021 – Cambridge Crossing Borders Recital
Xi Zhang – guzheng
Pieter Magusin – Slovakian folk music: an introduction with accordion
For more details about Slovakian folk dance and instruments please look at the Folk Dance Federation of California, South website.
Recital: 2 November – Emily Porter (flute) with Noah Jay (piano)
2nd Year music student, Emily, presents a programme of 20th century flute works.
Kokopeli | Katherine Hoover |
Eight Pieces | Paul Hindemith |
Homani | Wil Offermans |
Suite Paysanne Hongroise | Béla Bartök |
Recital: 9 November – Ella Fraser (violin) with Julia DeLuca (piano)
Violin Sonata in G major | Johannes Brahms |
Prelude No. 1 | George Gershwin |
Vocalise | Sergei Rachmaninoff |
Banjo & Fiddle | William Kroll |
Recital: 30 November – Cambridge Crossing Borders Recital
This is the inaugural recital in what hopes to be a series of concerts featuring music and instruments from around the globe. Some performances could not happen due to lockdown, but we are pleased to present these two:
- Anna Ryan (shakuhachi) – Sokkan
- Dr Lucy Delap (uilleann pipes) & Clive Lawson (bouzouki & fiddle) – Irish Reels & Jigs
Inter Alios videos
Music & Words: 16 May 2021 – Women's leadership
No Coward Soul is mine | By Emily Brontë |
Hymne to Christ | Imogen Holst, words by John Donne |
Cryogenic | By Sridala Swami |
To my daughter in a red coat | By Anne Stevenson |
The Call | Gail Randall |
Women’s Leadership | Dr Jill Armstrong |
Progress | By Rupi Kaur |
We shall walk through the valley | Undine Smith-Moore |
Music & Words: 8 November – In honour of Black History Month
We wear the mask | Paul Lawrence Dunbar |
Steal Away | Traditional, attr. Wallace Willis, arr. Edward Eicker |
Slaughters of Silence | Dani Ladipo (PhD student) |
I know why the caged bird sings | Maya Angelou |
Summer is Gone | Samuel Coleridge-Taylor |
Remembering, Re-membering | Patricia Glinton-Meicholas |
Deep River | Traditional, attr. Wallace Willis |
The British | Benjamin Zephaniah |
Lean on Me | Bill Withers, arr. Ewan Campbel |
Music & Words: 22 November – Music, when soft voices die
Music, when soft voices die | Percy Bysshe Shelley |
Music, when soft voices die | Rebecca Clarke |
I am in need of music | Elisabeth Bishop |
To be sung on the Water | Louise Bogan |
To be sung on the Water | Samuel Barber |
Music | A. S. J. Tessimond |
The Sunny Side of the Street | Dorothy Fields |
Peace I leave with you | Amy Beach |