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And now! Our first announcement: We received news of a wonderful concert that will take place in Paris, France, on Oct. 18. The mezzo-soprano Lucie Louvrier writes us with her plans of a recital featuring songs by Clarke, Alma Mahler, and Lili Boulanger.
Performing with pianist Anna Guyénot, the recital will take place at the American Cathedral in (23 avenue George V, 75008 Paris, France), at 4 pm, and is free of charge. Louvrier discovered Clarke’s music when completing her MMus in Vocal Performance at Birmingham Conservatoire, and she is happy now to share these English songs with French audiences.
Lucie explains:
In building this programme we wanted to perform music by several European women composers of the same era, to put each of them in perspective and show three different female artists’ fates of that time, whose musical languages are truly unique yet bare some similarities. … We would be very happy for our recital to contribute to Rebecca Clarke’s music being more widely known, especially in France where the English song repertoire in general is so rarely performed.