Loki Music

Dances from the films, music from the salons: The Georgettes of Oxford and The Capability Consort combine to perform dances from films of Jane Austen's books. Short scenes from the books will also be included, as will music and songs from the era.

 

Georgettes of Oxford - Choreography led by Helen Davidge

Scenes from the novels

Helen Davidge - Emma

Erika Sanderson - Knightley

The Capability Consort [using Classical/Romantic instruments]

William Summers - Flute

Diane Moore - Violin

Timothy Lin - Cello

Jamie Akers - Guitar

   with Patricia Hammond - Mezzo Soprano

 

 

Admission costs more than usual as there will be many performers: £22 on the door, £20 in advance and £15 for students, under-18s and Temple Volunteers. Advance tickets can be bought HERE.

Programme

[1]

DANCE Mr Beveridge's Maggot

 

DRAMA scene 1

 

SONG Haydn [1732 - 1809]: My mother bids me bind my hair [from Ten Canzonets; 1794]. Librettist: Anne Hunter [1742 - 1821]

 

INSTRUMENTAL Mozart [1756 - 1791]: Quartet in D; 1777

1 Allegro 

 

DANCE Mutual Love

 

DRAMA scene 2

 

SONG The dusky night rides down the sky/A-hunting we will go

Tune: c. 1750; librettist: Henry Fielding [1707 - 1754]

 

INSTRUMENTAL Mauro Giuliani [1781 - 1829]: Semiramide [adapted from an opera by Gioachino Rossini [1792 - 1868]

 

DANCE Shrewsbury Lasses

 

SONG Annie Fortescue-Harrison [1848 - 1944]: In the gloaming

 

INTERVAL

 

[2]

DANCE My Lord Byron's Maggot

 

DRAMA scene 3

 

SONG Haydn: The Sailor's Song

 

INSTRUMENTAL Mozart: Quartet in D

2 Adagio - 3 Rondeau

 

SONG 'Headache' song; librettist: Jane Austen [1775 - 1817]

 

DANCE Childgrove

 

DRAMA scene 4

 

SONG Ignatius Sancho [1729 - 1780]: Friendship, source of joy

Librettist: 'a young Lady'

 

DANCE Hole in the Wall