The Poetry of Lorca
Set to Music
Friday 6 February
7.45pm
Gulbenkian Theatre,
This concert of
Lorca’s poetry set to music is performed by Keith James and Rick Foot, acclaimed
for their success with The Songs of
Nick Drake.
The poems will be
mostly sung in English with some verses in Spanish, plus the evening will also
include courageous
material by those who followed Lorca,
namely, Leonard Cohen, Joni
Mitchell, Tim Buckley and, of course, Nick Drake.
"Thoughtfully put together,
evocative and passionate"
- Net
Rhythms
Federico
Garcia Lorca, murdered during the Spanish Civil War, is the most beloved and
influential
of all modern Poets. His reputation puts him as one
of the greatest writers of the 20th century. Passionate, urgent,
haunting and evocative, Lorca also wrote dramatic, modernist plays, many
of which have been performed
worldwide.
His
Poems, beautifully translated by literary followers are the jewel of his work
and until now only one has been set to music in English “Take this Waltz” by
Leonard Cohen, in such admiration he named his Daughter
Lorca.
"Evocative
and atmospheric... James' wistful melody keeping the focus on those vivid
lyrics... the orchestration is sublime."
- Irish
Herald
Plus the
film, “A Death in
Tickets
£14
14+
Ends.
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Biographies
KEITH
Born in
Towards the end of the 80’s he set
up his own recording studio, a later incarnation of which became very well known
among acoustic musicians “Dream of Oswald Studio” Nr Henley on Thames producing
a multitude of albums for Folk, Blues and Jazz artists.
During this time Keith began
recording his own material again to great effect and has since released 7 Albums
TOMORROW IS LONGER THAN YESTERDAY ,
OUTSIDES , THE SONGS OF NICK DRAKE
, NO.
Keith’s music has mostly been
described as sultry and evocative; a thinking person’s
songwriter.
During the production of OUTSIDES in
2000 a decision was made to record a couple of songs by NICK DRAKE -– “Three
hours” appears on the Album. Following this the idea to perform an Arts centre
concert entirely dedicated to Nick’s music ……. In the past 6 years Keith,
together with Rick Foot on Double Bass, has performed well over 300 of these
concerts and has had the of honour of taking Nick’s songs to Glastonbury
Festival.
Keith now lives in
www.keith-james.com www.poemsofgarcialorca.com www.songsofnickdrake.com
RICK
Rick originally studied French horn
but in 1988 at the age of 25 started playing Double Bass. Obviously from a
rudimentary point where he was making a living from it but probably not
realising that he would be on a path towards being one the this country’s
formidable exponents of the instrument.
He spent a couple of years in a
somewhat reckless manner playing in
And since the early 90’s has been
active in Jazz and abstract improvised music – working with many well know
figures on the British scene including Evan Parker,
Dick Heckstall-Smith, Henry Lowther,
Jim Mullen and countless others.
Rick lead the CHARLES MINGUS
repertory band “On the Corner” touring the country twice and recording a Mingus
Album. He has also been a valuable member of two Celtic groups : the
Outside of his collaboration with
Keith; Rick plays in the free-improvisation trio Reeve, Foot, McDade, The Paul
Young Quartet, Derrin Neaundorf’s Band and numerous other recording
projects.