“I HAVE SEEN INTO THE GRAVE” – A candlelit concert in Kensal Green Cemetery
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7 reviews - Dissenters Chapel
Description
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Something A Little Different, Theatre/Arts and Walks & Tours
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Tickets from £20.00
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This event has taken place.
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19:00 - 21:00
Enter the cemetery at sundown, pause for a morale boosting Hendrick's gin cocktail and proceed at your peril to this candlelit concert amidst the headstones of Kensal Green.
Ludwig van Beethoven (1770-1827), String Quartet No 11 in F minor, opus 95.
Written in 1810 for an intimate circle of friends and using experimental techniques Beethoven thought this piece too challenging to ever be performed in public. He gave it the title “serioso” - the only of his quartets he nicknamed - a bold assertion for someone who was not exactly an unserious composer.
The music is tightly coiled, compressed, as if trapped, pervaded with a sense of oppression, perhaps reflecting the fact that Beethoven’s home city Vienna had recently been occupied by Napoleon. Stark, stormy and full of extreme contrasts, Opus 95 acts as a gateway to Beethoven’s final great bleak quartets.
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Dmitri Shostakovich (1906-75), String Quartet No 8 in C minor, opus 110.
Shostakovich was arguably the most morbid composer who ever lived. To be fair he had some justifications: he lived though Stalin’s terrors, the siege of Leningrad in World War Two, was declared an Enemy of the People by the Soviet regime and suffered from life-long ill health.
Even after his bête noire Stalin died in 1953 misery continued to dog Shostakovich’s life. His wife Nina died soon after Stalin. When he wrote this “autobiographical” quartet over three days in July 1960 in Dresden he had just got divorced from his second wife, had been forced to join the Communist Party and begun to suffer from poliomyelitis. Little wonder then that the five movements of the piece reflect various shades of black. Friends said he had intended to commit suicide on his return to Russia
Tickets £20 including a delightful gin cocktail.
PLEASE NOTE - In order to comply with social distancing regulations, these candlelit concerts can only have a very limited audience.
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Tickets/Times
| Ticket | Event time | Cost |
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| I HAVE SEEN INTO THE GRAVE | 19:00 - 21:00 | £20.00 |
Location
Address
Dissenters Chapel, Kensal Green Cemetery, 391 Ladbroke Grove, London, W10 5AB
Nearest Station
Ladbroke Grove (Tube)
Organiser
A Curious Invitation and Antique Beat
This year Antique Beat and A Curious Invitation will be hosting The London Month of the Dead, a series of 36 different events investigating the capital’s relationship with its deceased residents. Events will include a private view of the Museum of London’s bone archive, taxidermy workshops, macabre walking tours and private views and a programme of weekend death salons with talks on subjects ranging from public dissection and body snatching to reincarnation and funereal folklore. Each salon will feature a pair of speakers, authorities in fields such as osteology, forensic pathology and the paranormal, who will offer their own perspectives and insights on mortality in the city.
Each year the London Month of the Dead donates 20% of all ticket revenue to one of London's magnificent seven cemeteries. In 2017 all of the death salons and concerts will be hosted at the Dissenters and Anglican chapels at Kensal Green. In previous years the month's programme has centered around Brompton Cemetery but the chapel is now undergoing important restoration work, a project the London Month of the Dead is proud to have supported.
The London Month of the Dead has been curated by a Curious Invitation and Antique Beat to inform, entertain and provoke on the subject of death and London cemeteries.
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2. Tickets are issued subject to the rules and regulations of the venue.
3. Please check your tickets, as mistakes cannot always be rectified.
4. Occasionally, events are cancelled or postponed by the promoter, team, performer or venue for a variety of reasons. If the event is cancelled, please contact us for information on receiving a refund from the responsible party. If the event was moved or rescheduled, the venue or promoter may set refund limitations. It is your responsibility to ascertain the date and time of any rearranged event.
5. The venue reserves the right to refuse admission and may on occasion have to conduct security searches to ensure the safety of the patrons.
6. Every effort to admit latecomers will be made at a suitable break in the event, but admission cannot always be guaranteed.
7. We regret that tickets cannot be exchanged or refunded after purchase.
8. Tickets are sold subject to the venue or promoter's right to alter or vary the programme due to events or circumstances beyond its control without being obliged to refund monies or exchange tickets.
9. If this ticket is re-sold or transferred for profit or commercial gain by anyone other than the promoter, venue management, DesignMyNight or one of their authorised sub-agents, it will become voidable and the holder may be
refused entry to or ejected from the venue.
10. The venue may operate a No Smoking Policy.
11. The promoter, venue management and DesignMyNight accept no responsibility for any personal property.
12. The event listed on the purchased ticket is strictly for ticket holders who are over 18 years of age. Identification may be required.
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