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Jess Dandy
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In the dark times will there still be singing?
Jess Dandy contralto; Dylan Perez piano
Programme & Song Text
Date
Mon 20 Jan 2025, 7.30pm
Tickets
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Duration

This concert will be approximately 2 hours in duration, including an interval

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Artists

  • Jess Dandycontralto
  • Dylan Perezpiano

Programme

  • Olivier Messiaen
    1908-1992
      • Harawi
        :
      • La ville qui dormait, toi
      • Bonjour toi, colombe verte
      • Dans le noir

Interval

  • Gustav Mahler
    1860-1911
      • Des Knaben Wunderhorn
        :
      • Ablösung im Sommer
      • Urlicht
      • Das himmlische Leben
  • Hanns Eisler
    1898-1962
      • Spruch 1939
      • Das Lied vom Anstreicher Hitler Op. 41 No. 3
  • Kurt Weill
    1900-1950
      • Wie lange noch?
      • Aufstieg und Fall der Stadt Mahagonny
        :
      • Alabama Song
  • Alex Mills
      • The Book of Hours
        :
      • In deep nights
      • I believe in the night
      • I love you, my darkness

Encore

Overview

Jess Dandy’s programme rises from an urgent question posed by Bertolt Brecht on the eve of the Second World War: In the dark times will there still be singing? She crosses cultural, linguistic and historical borders in search of answers.

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