13/04/2025
On 10th May the Julian String Quartet will be performing a wonderful programme based on English poetry.
Jean Paterson (violin), Lucy Henson (violin), Nichola Blakey (viola) and Cressida Nash (cello) will be exploring the intimate connection between The Four Quartets by T. S. Eliot and the Beethoven String Quartet Op.132. The fourth and final poem is titled Little Gidding, the home of a little Anglican community in what is now known as Cambridgeshire. Like Faringdon, Little Gidding got caught up between the Parliamentarians and Royalists during the Civil War. Eliot visited Little Gidding in 1936 and first started to write this poem in 1941. He then left it aside but finished it in September 1942, with the intention to conclude the Four Quartets series.
The poems will be read by Mary Nash, who trained at the Central School for Speech and Drama where she was awarded the Sylvia Strutt Memorial Prize for verse speaking and literary appreciation.
Tickets via: whitehorseconcerts.co.uk