Jazz and Jests | a 1927 Musical Feast

Enjoy a programme of jazz infused and light-hearted music courtesy of Southampton-based artists the Mayflower Ensemble.

Casella’s prize-winning composition, with its Italian and French baroque musical influences, is followed by a new version for sextet of Benjamin Oliver’s 2017 work Captured.  Martinů’s 1927 work La Revue de Cuisine, began life as a one-act ballet before being arranged for sextet, the version we hear this evening.  With music inspired by the period, including the Charleston and the tango, the work was the composer’s first hit and one of his personal favourites.  Taking its unlikely storyline – the activities of a set of kitchen utensils – as a starting point tonight’s performance features a newly commissioned narration from writer and actor Lucy Mellors.

Concert presented by the University of Southampton’s Faculty of Humanities in association with Performing Arts Collaboration South and Turner Sims as part of the ‘Screening Live Performance’ conference.  Tonight’s performance will be livestreamed for delegates as part of the conference.