Alison Bauld’s 80th Birthday at the Red House, Aldeburgh
Tuesday, May 7, 2024, 6.00pm - 7.30pm.
Venue: Library, The Red House, Golf Lane, Aldeburgh IP15 5PZ
Britten Pears Arts Booking
Soprano Mimi Doulton and pianist Dylan Perez present Emily Dickinson settings by Alison Bauld and Aaron Copland, alongside highlights from Olivier Messiaen's Chants de Terre et de Ciel.
Alison’s new song cycle for female voice and piano entitled ‘I Shall Not Live in Vain’ includes eight early poems by Emily Dickinson: I’m Nobody! Who Are You? - I Measure Every Grief I Meet - The Rat - The Pedigree of Honey - I Felt a Funeral in My Brain - I Heard a Fly Buzz When I Died - Wild Nights - If I Can Stop One Heart From Breaking.
The poems are a selection of early works by Dickinson taken from the collection edited by Mabel Loomis Todd and T.W. Higginson.
The performers will be joined by Alison Bauld, on her 80th birthday, to discuss ways in which composers work with poetry and self-created text.
In the special space of the Library, which over the decades has seen so much new music-making between friends, Britten Pears Arts are delighted to present an evening with two leading performers.
The recital will last 60 minutes, with time afterwards to meet the artists and have a glass of bubbles.
Mimi Doulton soprano
Dylan Perez piano
Alison Bauld composer
Messiaen: Selection from Chants de terre et de ciel
Copland: Selection from Twelve Poems of Emily Dickinson
Alison Bauld: I Shall Not Live in Vain, eight poems by Emily Dickinson.
Mimi Doulton and Dylan Perez are grateful to the Vaughan Williams Foundation and the Marchus Trust for their support of this new work by Alison Bauld.
Alison Bauld, Australian-born composer and writer,
has lived in the UK since 1968. She was a piano pupil of Alexander Sverjensky at the NSW Conservatorium of Music, (1956-1960)., before studying drama at the National Institute of Dramatic Art, (NIDA). This was followed by a Bachelor of Music degree from the University of Sydney and a doctorate in composition from the University of York. She currently lives in London.
Her novel Mozart’s Sister published by Alcina Press, is available as a paperback and has also recently been made available on Amazon as an eBook.
THE LODGERS
Just published - now available on Amazon as an eBook and paperback
Alison Bauld’s second novel The Lodgers is very different from Mozart’s Sister. Now she has turned her hand to writing a black comedy set in suburban London around the year 2000. It is a fairytale with a sting in its tail, a satire of a penny-pinching family in London. They are just making do with the help of paying student lodgers and as harassed, self-centred parents with three hapless children (one trapped in permanent babyhood) plus various lodgers they inhabit a world where nothing is quite as it seems. With two murders… a bizarre French holiday… and a plethora of peculiar lodgers, what happens to this odd but strangely endearing family teases expectation and takes you by surprise.
“A theatrical background has shared centre stage with her musicianship in informing her writing style … Bauld has instilled her vocal music with a dramatic flair uncommon among other contemporary song writers.”
Joyce Andrews, Journal of Singing, USA, Vol 60, No 1, 2003.
Alison Bauld, March 2020
(Picture: Ross Chatfield)