The Rudolf Kempe Society
IN SUPPORT OF YOUNG MUSICIANS
AIMS AND OBJECTIVES
The Rudolf Kempe
Society, founded in London in 1980, and its German Branch, launched in Munich
in 1982, are both registered charities which, through a variety of activities
in England and Germany, work independently as well as through an exchange
scheme towards the same goal in professional education: to bridge the gap
between the means of training generally offered by established institutions and
the ever-increasing demands made on young musicians entering the profession. Through
the same scheme, today’s audiences of concert goers and music lovers – usually excluded
from the working process and thus condemned to the passive attitude of
consumers – are invited to participate in the Society’s educational activities
and to gain insight into the creative process of interpretation. In this way,
the Society’s work is recognised as opening up new dimensions of communication
and understanding.
For further
information and membership details please contact:
The Rudolf Kempe
Society, 58 Waterside,
Songs of
Apollo
Word and Music Programmes devised by Cordula
Kempe
This exciting
project explores the relationship of literary and musical text, its meaning in
study and performance – for technical execution as well as interpretation – and
its value as a guideline in today’s world of performing arts.
It is aimed at
developing a greater awareness of responsibility for the authenticity of text
in its rendition, in music, literature and drama; it addresses academics,
performers and audiences alike.
Musicians,
especially instrumentalists who spend most of their time and energy exercising
their fingers on strings or keyboards, come to realise that by applying their
intellect and imagination in the kindred field of the spoken word, they can
enhance their musical performance by a more conscious use of the articulation
and phrasing; this results in a clearer sense of understanding of what they has
often only conceived on the affective level. Actors, in turn, even if they do
not think of themselves as musical, often find that if they are willing to
entrust themselves to music as a catalyst, their range of expression and
capability of verse speaking can be enhanced. At the other end of the spectrum,
audiences come to realise how the two complementary art forms, by inspiring
each other, heighten the overall experience.
Our programmes
incorporate vocal and instrumental music of all periods, interwoven with poetry
and prose from classical antiquity to Shakespeare’s time and the present.
Performed by young musicians alongside leading artists of the musical and
acting professions, they are both informative and highly entertaining.
Titles include:
PERCHANCE TO DREAM
FOOD OF LOVE
ENTIRELY MOZART
VIENNESE DELIGHTS
BIRDS, FLOWERS, GOD
AND MYSELF
LOVE LETTERS FROM
DIVERTIMENTO
IL DIVERTIMENTO
DEFINITIVO
STRINGS IN THE AIR
MORE STRINGS IN THE
AIR
THE FAIRIE QUEEN
THE QUALITY OF
MERCY
THE CEREMONY OF
INNONCENCE
THE SEVEN LAST
WORDS
A
MUSICAL OFFERING.
For further details
contact:
The Rudolf Kempe Society
58 Waterside,
e-mail cordulakempe@aol.com
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