Knitting Concert Raising Funds for Local Ukraine Relief Efforts | ||||
A mixture of 'finesse, ravishing beauty and virtuoso panache' by Putney Common
The next Putney knitting concert takes place at All Saints' Church, Putney Common on Sunday 3 July at 6pm. Money raised from the event will be donated to local relief efforts to support people in Ukraine. As ever Robert Bridge will play piano and the programme is as follows: Mozart - Rondo in A minor, K.511 Robert Bridge says, " I continue to be shamefully dilatory about organising Knitting Concerts but as I have some pieces up and running - some of which form part of a recital programme at St.Bride's, Fleet Street this Friday lunchtime, in case anyone is passing - I thought I'd create a little event at All Saints and help to raise some money for people in need in Ukraine. "The programme is a mixture of finesse, ravishing beauty and virtuoso panache (and that's just the pianist...) and includes some of my favourite pieces in the piano repertoire. Mozart's stand-alone Rondo is a late work, unusual both for its chromaticism and rich harmonies and for the extraordinary amount of expressive detail which Mozart included in the score. Scriabin's Second Sonata is an evocation of the sea and its different moods, radiant stillness side by side with stormy turbulence. Chopin wrote three Impromptus at different stages of his life: the noble procession of the second Impromptu in sharp contrast to the whirling arabesques of the outer two pieces. The two pieces of Liszt which end the recital show two very different sides of this extraordinary composer: the daring and seductive harmonies of Harmonies du Soir set against the glittering technical high jinks of his paraphrase on themes from Verdi's opera, Rigoletto." Yhe concert is free with free drinks included and you are welcome to bring something quiet to do whilst you listen if you want to. The retiring collection will donate to an enterprise set up by local nurse practitioner, Anne Varvill, who has been organising the purchase of emergency medical supplies and helping to get them to some of the most desperately affected areas in the Ukranian conflict. One of the drivers, Nix Kersley, is the mum of one Robert's pupils and one of a number of parents at Wimbledon High School who are loading up and driving requisitioned ambulances out to the Polish border where they are met by drivers who take the ambulances and supplies into Ukraine. You can read about Anne's work here.
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