In Darkness Let Me Dwell
Composed by John Woolrich, presented by the Kirkman Quartet
Fri 21 Feb 2020
Eleto Chocolate Cafe
20:00 - 21:00
John Woolrich Presents: Profound Sound in association with Folkestone New Music
In Darkness Let Me Dwell, Villanesca, Kleine Wanderung
With transcriptions of pieces by John Dowland and John Bennet
Launching the festival is composer John Woolrich, who has recently moved to Folkestone. "Like all the most interesting composers, John Woolrich's work is a kaleidoscopic mixture: of spiky wit, lightness, dark menace, on canvasses that are hugely ambitious or delicately miniature. Like one of his anecdotes, I would never predict how a Woolrich piece will unfold; he's the master of surprise and variation.” (Joanna MacGregor)
In Darkness Let Me Dwell is performed by the Kirkman Quartet and takes its inspiration from the Italian painter Carlo Levi.
‘If a straight line is the shortest distance between two fated and inevitable points, digressions will lengthen it; and if these digressions become so complex, so tangled and tortuous, so rapid as to hide their own tracks, who knows -- perhaps death may not find us, perhaps time will lose its way, and perhaps we ourselves can remain concealed in our shifting hiding places.’
John is a local music curator and with Asako Morikawa, launched his first season of Folkestone Early Music last year at Customs House Folkestone. This year, expect & look out for some big, new music developments under 'Folkestone New Music', from these two as well as from their other collaborators.
Ticket for individual event: £6
Also part of £15 Festival Pass (more info below)
+16 unless accompanied by an adult
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