“When we are young, we jump headfirst into stories, into magic and fantasy and make-believe. We spend hours occupied with the tales we have invented ourselves, play-acting them and recruiting others to take part. I’ve been thinking about this recently: my seemingly lost ability to leave the reality of bills and deadlines for the creations of my imagination.” – Megan Stellar
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Poulenc
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“The guitar makes the dreams weep,” Poulenc inscribed above the central movement of his Violin Sonata, completed under Nazi occupation.
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“Arundo Donax Me Why (it’s a reed pun): a bunch of music, almost entirely featuring reed instruments, that’s stuck with me as a country boy who ended up playing about the most arcane, un-country instrument in the orchestra, bookended by two ripper concertos for it.”
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LLEWELLYN ONE THE SEVEN DEADLY SINS Wednesday 31 March / Thursday 1 April 2021, 7.30pm, Llewellyn…