The Seeds of Love - Adventures in Collecting English Folk Music
Sunday 23rd January 7:45 pm THE THEATRE, CHIPPING NORTON £13, £11 conc. Box Office 01608 642350 www.chippingnortontheatre.com
Folk-song arrangements by Vaughan Williams, and by Butterworth, Sharp,
‘The Seeds of Love’ is one of OA’s most popular and original sequences. It has been performed frequently for festivals and music clubs, notably in 1999 with Ursula Vaughan Williams (VW’s widow) as guest of honour at a performance for the English Folk Dance and Song Society in Cecil Sharp House, London. |
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and Grainger, together with diaries, letters, and writings, evoke the wonder and excitement of these early twentieth-century collectors at an influential moment in English music. The story depicts their search of the countryside for singers of ‘genuine’ folk-song, with amusing and moving anecdotes of countrymen and women, of bicycles, notebooks, and phonographs. The sequence begins with the formation of the English Folk-Song Society in 1898 and ends with the death of Cecil Sharp in 1924.