Patron of The Rudolf Kempe Society
I am very flattered and delighted to be Patron of the Rudolf Kempe Society as successor to the late Dietrich Fischer-Dieskau. I admire Cordula Kempe so much and think the work that she does is tremendous.
Do come to her wonderful programmes of word and music, Songs of Apollo - in which I have taken part myself and thoroughly enjoyed! And don’t miss the concerts given by the extremely talented musicians of the Rudolf Kempe International Young Artists Platform!
Also given at the uniquely congenial atmosphere of the KEMPE STUDIO at THE MUSES in Stratford, the Society's new series of creative and inspiring Public Master Classes awaits you, with an international line-up of great artists of today teaching the great artists of tomorrow!
Dame Judi Dench, Patron of The Rudolf Kempe Society
Displaying items by tag: Poetry and Music
Dance me to the end of Love - Sunday 10th November 2019
Actors reading their favorite poetry
- classical and contemporay –
with piano music of all periods
JOHN WOOLF piano
The Seven Last Words - Friday March 30th 2018
HAYDN
STRING QUARTETS OP.51
with Reflections on the Biblical Text
in Drama and Poetry
devised by Cordula Kempe
BACANU QUARTET
RKS Young Ensemble 2018
NICHOLAS DAY
ANNA CARTERET
ANDREW WOODALL
GOOD FRIDAY 30 MARCH 7.30 PM
KEMPE STUDIO at THE MUSES
Tickets still from the ArtsHouse Box Office Stratford-upon-Avon phone 01789– 207 100
Poetry is Life - Sunday January 21st 2017
Annual Programme of RSC and NT Actors reading their Favourite Poetry
“Poetry does not exist to make life beautiful – Poetry Is Life Itself”
Anonymous 20th Century Russian Poet
CLASSICAL POETRY read by RSC and NT Actors CONTEMPORARY POETRY read by the Authors, on Colour, Light and Shade Music from BACH to SHOSTAKOVICH ZUBIN VARLA piano - devised by Cordula Kempe -
“If Poetry does not come as naturally as the Leaves to a Tree it had better not come at all”
JOHN KEATS
SUNDAY 21 JANUARY 7.30PM
Poetry is Life - Sunday March 5th 2017
Featuring the poetry of the Romantics – Keats, Shelley, Blake, Leigh-Hunt and their wider circle – this is actually our annual programme ‘Poetry Is Life’, after an anonymous 20th century Russian poet. Now in its eleventh year, our actors - unlike other programmes when they have to read what has been devised for them - are on this occasion invited to read their own choice of poetry on a given theme, and it is immensely popular with them - as with their audiences! Moreover, they all give their services in it, in recognition of the Rudolf Kempe Society’s work and out of their awareness that it is a way of helping, in these more than troubled times, to protect the future of what we all believe in and live for as artists.
The subject of ’Romanticism’, both in its historical and its literary sense, takes up – perhaps surprisingly - the thread from our last event and gives us new insights into the lives, concerns and passions of these great visionary minds, so much loved and yet by no means as familiar to us as we tend to think. Let yourself be entertained, intrigued and inspired by their thoughts, in a cornucopia of beauty ranging from the poignant to the humorous and interwoven with spiritual as well as sensual music – that of SCHUBERT, in well-known and lesser known gems for string quartet and for piano respectively. A real feast!
Alongside no fewer than eight distinguished actors of the National and Royal Shakespeare Theatre companies, the musicians will be the BERGONZI QUARTET – Cordula Kempe, Barbara O’Reilly, Robin Del Mar and Jenny Curtis – with actor / pianist ZUBIN VARLA.
A talk-back session about the programme with some of its performers will take place on
MONDAY 6 MARCH, 11.30 AM
at the KEMPE STUDIO.
Admission free - all concert goers welcome.
Perchance to Dream - Sunday 11th October 2015
J.S. BACH
THE GOLDBERG VARIATIONS
Sitkovetsky String Trio Adaptation
with Reflections on Sleep and Dream
in Poetry and Drama of Four Millennia
devised by Cordula Kempe
GOLDBERG TRIO
CORDULA KEMPE violin
RUTH WOOLLEY viola
PETER WILSON cello
Counterpoints to Lent - Sunday 29th March 2015
A Meditation in Word and Music
devised by Cordula Kempe, for JEFFERY DENCH - performed in his Memory
Music by
BACH, HAYDN, MOZART,
BEETHOVEN, MENDELSSOHN
and SHOSTAKOVICH
BERGONZI QUARTET
Poetry of four Millennia
JENNIFER MCEVOY, OLIVER DENCH
SONIA RITTER, MALCOLM STORRY
Food of Love - Sunday 7th December 2014
DVOŘÁK’S ‘CYPRESSES’ for String Quartet
with Love Poetry of four Millennia
GUY HENRY
JENNIFER MCEVOY
OLIVER DENCH
Counterpoints to Lent - Sunday 13th April 2014
Devised by Cordula Kempe
Music by BACH, HAYDN,MOZART, BEETHOVEN, MENDELSSOHN and SHOSTAKOVICH BERGONZI QUARTET
Poetry of four Millennia SONIA RITTER MALCOLM STORRY