Music and Art in London
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smallhobbitHaving reviewed the plays I went to in the evenings, now for some of my daytime activities.
I went to a performance of Carmen La Cubana by a Cuban cast at Sadler's Wells Theatre. Using Bizet's original music, although giving it a more Cuban style, the production takes a lot from Carmen Jones. It was enjoyable, but there was more singing than I expected and less dancing - which I'd been looking forward to. And I didn't leave humming the tunes.
On Thursday lunchtime I went to a 35 minute sort of service at St Martin-in-the-Fields. It was part of their Great Sacred Music series. The choir sing a number of songs/anthems, this time based around Bach's Jesu, Joy of Man's Desiring, and the congregation join in with two hymns. The standard is always very high. It made a really lovely break in the middle of the day.
On Friday afternoon I went to the Tate Britain to see an exhibition called Aftermath (Art in the wake of World War One). It was interesting, at times very sad, and showed art beginning with the official war artists who were creating works during the war (and which at times were censored because they were deemed too graphic - or accurate), through the aftermath of the war and onto the late 1920s and the new post-war society. I had taken a small sketchbook and copied details of the pictures which particularly spoke to me.
I also took a couple of typical tourist photos on the first evening - just to prove I was in London:
I went to a performance of Carmen La Cubana by a Cuban cast at Sadler's Wells Theatre. Using Bizet's original music, although giving it a more Cuban style, the production takes a lot from Carmen Jones. It was enjoyable, but there was more singing than I expected and less dancing - which I'd been looking forward to. And I didn't leave humming the tunes.
On Thursday lunchtime I went to a 35 minute sort of service at St Martin-in-the-Fields. It was part of their Great Sacred Music series. The choir sing a number of songs/anthems, this time based around Bach's Jesu, Joy of Man's Desiring, and the congregation join in with two hymns. The standard is always very high. It made a really lovely break in the middle of the day.
On Friday afternoon I went to the Tate Britain to see an exhibition called Aftermath (Art in the wake of World War One). It was interesting, at times very sad, and showed art beginning with the official war artists who were creating works during the war (and which at times were censored because they were deemed too graphic - or accurate), through the aftermath of the war and onto the late 1920s and the new post-war society. I had taken a small sketchbook and copied details of the pictures which particularly spoke to me.
I also took a couple of typical tourist photos on the first evening - just to prove I was in London:
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Date: 2018-08-21 06:40 pm (UTC)I absolutely love the photos. The bridge I recognize. What is the other one (I have a wooden miniature of it, courtesy of Santy Claus Debriswoman, but I don't what it is)?
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Date: 2018-08-21 06:45 pm (UTC)The photo is the Tower of London (dates from 1090).
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Date: 2018-08-21 06:53 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2018-08-21 07:04 pm (UTC)