Date/Time
Date(s) - 09/08/2019
2:30 pm - 4:00 pm
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Zoë’s performs in a chamber music concert alongside participants of the Tanglewood Festival in her new string trio “Völuspå”.
Inspired by the mysterious standing stones and goddess lore that abounds in the beautiful Dorset countryside surrounding Smedmore House (venue for the premiere of this trio) I’ve taken the title of this piece, “Völuspá”, from that of the Poetic Edda, the old Norse collection of anonymous poems in which the Norns appear, the three shadowy goddesses who weave Fate at their looms. In this light it is appropriate that there are three performers, spinning time with their strings…
Concert programme
Erika FOX – Hungarian Rhapsody (American premiere) | ||
Andrew HAMILTON – New work (world premiere; TMC commission) | ||
Zoë MARTLEW – Völuspá (American premiere) | ||
Hilda PAREDES – Revelación (American premiere) |