21/07/2026
Friday July 31st 7.30pm
£12, £10 concessions, 14-18 year olds £5.
AWAKENING LISTENING
Can you tell the difference between a robin and a blackbird’s song? Can you
hear someone’s inner being when they speak? Are you able to hear the
difference between recorded and live music?
Here is a concert working to redeem our listening into a more active and
discerning state. Local singer Andrew Thompson together with two Dutch
colleagues, Jorien van Tuinen (viola) and Joris Boon (cello) will play the
Lansdown Hall on July 31 st at 7.30pm. They will perform Renaissance, and
20 th/21st century songs of the approachable kind. It’s interesting that modern
visual art attracts huge audiences, yet the same vintage of music does not.
The group specializes in allowing contemporary ‘classical’ music to shine
whilst not compromising with modern musical elements, which are now
becoming important for our very survival: this new musical language of our
times encourages us to listen with greater presence, greater depth, and
greater selflessness. Such qualities, whilst under threat from the increasingly
centralized and hierarchical drift of societal life, are essential for good
communication, relationships, freedom and the spiritual life.
