21 maggio 2023

 

Chi il mese scorso non ha potuta seguirla in diretta oggi può ritrovarla in video presso il WestbrookJazz Moving Picture Show: è la piacevolissima conversazione che Mike e Kate Westbrook hanno tenuto via Zoom con Camila Oliveira - e con qualcuno degli ascoltatori - a proposito di William Blake: A Music Celebration of William Blake: Mike and Kate Westbrook.

Mike and Kate Westbrook have recently been invited to become Patrons of the Blake Society, an organisation set up to study and celebrate the work of William Blake. The Society is based in Piccadilly at St James Church. Blake who was born in nearby Soho, was christened at the church in 1757. The Westbrook Blake, based on settings of William Blake’s poetry, was performed in the church in November.

On April 19th the Society staged a conversation by Zoom between Mike and Kate and Camila Oliveira Querino. Camila is a Blake expert who was born in Brazil and is currently an Associate Research Fellow at the University of Lisbon. The session included film of performances featuring the voices of Phil Minton and Kate Westbrook. Discussion ranged from the relationship of music to Blake’s poetry and the place of his vision in the modern world, to stories from the Westbrook Band’s fifty-year travels with William Blake.

https://www.westbrookjazz.co.uk/pictureshow/May2023.shtml
https://tinyurl.com/BlakeSociety
https://blakesociety.org/product/westbrooks