Woman.Life.Song
Neske Beks on female role models
this event is part of
TOPSTUK PURCELL 2022
music theatre
music
reading
eye-opener
Thu 29
Sep
2022
-20.00
Kamermuziekzaal
| start | 20.00 |
| expected end time | 21.35 |
Standard €10.00
Reduction -26 €5.50
All prices include booking fees.
Season’s Thinker reflects on the song cycle commissioned by Jessye Norman
It is nigh on impossible to imagine a more iconic ‘Dido’ than Jessye Norman. When asked to commission a work for Carnegie Hall, Norman invited three other black female role models – Maya Angelou, Clarissa Pinkola Estés and Nobel Prize winner Toni Morrison – to write new lyrics for the song cycle Woman.Life.Song. For this lecture, Neske Beks has selected texts by Angelou, Estés and Morrison and from her own work on the lives of women, white and black. Its central theme are the questions: What is a woman's life? And what is the power of being a woman?
programme
Texts by Neske Beks, Toni Morrison, Maya Angelou & Clarissa Pinkola Estés
Judith Weir (1954)
Woman.Life.Song (excerpts)
Texts by Neske Beks, Toni Morrison, Maya Angelou & Clarissa Pinkola Estés
Judith Weir (1954)
Woman.Life.Song
performers
Neske Beks: concept and lyrics
Djuwa Mroivili: piano
FayB: dance
Nyira Hens: reader
Thu 29
Sep
2022
-20.00
Kamermuziekzaal
| start | 20.00 |
| expected end time | 21.35 |
Standard €10.00
Reduction -26 €5.50
All prices include booking fees.
