We are delighted to announce that ELECTRIC VOICE THEATRE has received a huge boost to our Eliza Flower Project with this Grant from the The National Lottery Heritage Fund
Alongside the funding from Ambache Charitable Trust and Hinrichsen Foundation, and the huge support from our partners at the Conway Hall Ethical Society and the many friends of the project this means we are going ahead with our plans to:
- perform music by Eliza Flower and commissioned works from 4 women composers in London, Harlow and Newcastle over the next year
- run Young Singers Programmes in each of the performance locations and online
- work with local choirs
- give workshop presentations for schools and community groups
- create exhibitions online and at the venues
- make scores of Flower’s music available for you to use!
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Join us for the first event in the project
Oct 27th at Conway Hall, London
“Flowers of the Seasons – Politics, Power & Poverty”
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We present the first public concert of Eliza Flower’s music for nearly 200 years, alongside an exhibition of articles from her archive at Conway Hall and the premiere of the newly commissioned works
With grateful thanks to our funders
The National Lottery Heritage Fund – National Lottery players,
Hinrichsen Foundation and Ambache Charitable Trust
and our partner Conway Hall Ethical Society
A Rare Species at Conway Hall
The performance is based around Flower’s “Free Trade Songs of the Seasons” which was published by Novello to support the Anti-Corn-Law League at their extraordinary Bazaar, held over 17 days in the Royal Opera House Covent Garden in 1845. The texts of the songs are by her sister, the poet, Sarah Flower Adams who is best known for penning the hymn “Nearer My God To Thee”. They worked together, not just artistically but also in radical politics, fighting for the rights of workers, women, enslaved people, and particularly for the poor and their struggle to survive in the face of high food prices and low wages – a struggle sadly mirrored today.
THE FLOWER TEAM
