sinfonia ViVA with Mary Carewe in Kabaret: the seeds of change

Friday 24th July 2009 at 8.00pm
Big Top, Tower Gardens, Skegness, Lincolnshire
Tickets: £10, £8 concessions
Embassy Centre Box Office 0845 6740505

• Spoliansky: Life's a Swindle
• Spoliansky: The Smart Set
• Zemlinsky: Herr Bombadil
• Schoenberg: Pierrot Luniare excerpt, No.9 Gebet an Pierrot
• Hollaender: O Just Suppose
• Spoliansky: Masculine and feminine
• Spoliansky: Sehnsucht
• Wolpe: Hitler
• Eisler: Abortion is Illegal
• Hollaender: Sex Appeal
• Waxman: Alone in the Big City
• Hollaender: Chuck out the Men
• Weill: Selection
• Britten: Cabaret Songs
• Coward: 20th C Blues
• Coward: Poor Little Rich Girl
• Coward: Mad Dogs and Englishmen

In this, the inaugural Skegness Festival, chanteuse Mary Carewe is joined by ensemble ViVA and its dynamic Music Director James Holmes in this electrifying programme of music and song capturing the decadent and subversive flavour of Berlin in the 1920s. Charting the influence of Cabaret and the politically engaged music theatre of Weill and Brecht, which spread throughout Europe as a result of the enforced mass migration following the rise of the Third Reich, this programme includes songs by Eisler, Spoliansky, Hollaender, Britten and Coward.

Mary Carewe's versatility ranges from musical theatre showstoppers and cabaret songs to contemporary music. She has appeared with orchestras in the UK, Ireland, Spain, Germany, Czech Republic, the United States, Australia and Scandinavia, and has performed under the baton of Sir Simon Rattle, Kurt Masur, John Rutter and Charles Hazlewood. Her now long-established artistic relationship with Carl Davis has led her to sing both 'James Bond' and 'Oscar Winners' programmes worldwide; she made her Carnegie Hall debut with him and the New York Pops in March 2009.

Join us in the special Big Top in Tower Gardens (opposite Embassy Theatre) for this special programme of music for this dazzling evening capturing the Bohemian spirit of the last century.

Supported by Arts Council England

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