Ulverston International Music Festival/Victoria Hall, Grange-over-Sands

Saturday 31st May, 1pm

Using Satie’s own oddly comic (and comically odd) writings and extracts from his letters, as well as playing many of his best-known short piano works, Alistair tells the story of Erik Satie’s bizarre, brave and lonely life. With vocal contributions from soprano Charlotte Page.

In Alistair’s own words:

“I’ve hero-worshipped the French composer Erik Satie for many years. Not only was he a hugely innovative and visionary composer – he started writing in the 1890s, but his music anticipates 20th century composers such as Ravel, Poulenc and the Minimalists – but he was also a man with a passion for all forms of art. He drew witty cartoons and strange little sketches of fantasy castles; he wrote poems and comedy monologues.

Here was a man who bought seven identical yellow corduroy suits, one for each day of the week, so he never had to waste time deciding what he was going to wear. Here was a man who for a time only consumed white foods, in the hope that their simplicity and purity would inform his music. Once I started to research Satie’s life in detail, I was captivated by the strangeness and complexity of the man, but also by his fierce resolve to change music forever”. The Guardian.

Tickets

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£25 | £5

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Alistair McGowan: Piano & Presenter, Charlotte Page: Soprano