Time Capsule: 1914–18

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a three-day focus on all things musical and non-musical from this turning-point period in history

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Time Capsule: 1914–18 is a 3-day total immersion in all things musical and non-musical, guest-curated by violinist Katharine Gowers. it’s often suggested that the modern world began with the end of the war in 1918. musically speaking, it’s a fascinating era. Romanticism has its last gasp alongside forward-looking modernity, and Debussy — who died in 1918 — is at the heart of those cross-currents.

WeDnesDay 11 July

The 1914 ConCerT

M45 11am (ends approx. 12.50pm), Pittville Pump Room £28, £24, £18, Members 10% off (50% concessions apply)

Henning Kraggerud violin Katharine Gowers violin Adrian Brendel cello Christian Ihle Hadland piano

Janácek Violin Sonata Webern Three pieces Kodaly Duo for violin & cello Joplin Magnetic Rag Ravel Piano Trio

Ben Shephard: WhaT WaS Shell-ShoCk?

MT01 2.30pm (ends approx. 3.45pm) cheltenham Town hall, Drawing Room £6 (£5 when booking three or more), Members 10% off

During the great War, so many British soldiers developed mental disorders that the British army was forced to recognise a new condition — ‘shell-shock’ — and British doctors were made to rethink their pre-war ideas of how the mind worked. But what exactly was shell-shock? how did it relate to modern Post-traumatic stress Disorder? how could it be treated? Ben shephard, author of A War of nerves, uses the case-histories of individual soldiers to explore the extraordinary medical literature of shell-shock.

MargoT van BerS STreeTer: The TeChnology of War

MT02 4.30pm (ends approx. 5.30pm) cheltenham Town hall, Drawing Room £6 (£5 when booking three or more), Members 10% off

one of the defining features of the great War was the increasing impact of technology on the way war was waged. From missiles and tanks to gas, machine-driven artillery, flame throwers and submarines, advances in technology led to horrifying increases in the scope and scale of

the human capacity for destruction. Military expert Margot van Bers streeter investigates the ways in which technology shaped this terrible conflict.

The 1915 ConCerT

M49 7pm (ends approx. 9pm), Pittville Pump Room £28, £24, £18, Members 10% off (50% concessions apply)

Henning Kraggerud volin Jennifer Stumm viola Steven Isserlis cello Sally Pryce harp Emily Beynon flute Matthew Hunt clarinet Christian Ihle Hadland piano Connie Shih piano Escher Quartet

Debussy Sonata for flute, viola & harp Szymanowski Mythes Debussy Sonata for cello & piano Bartok Romanian Dances Reger Clarinet Quintet

The oTher 1915 ConCerT

M51 9.30pm (ends approx. 10.40pm) cheltenham college chapel £18, Members 10% off

Ex Cathedra Choir Jeffrey Skidmore Conductor

Rachmaninov All Night Vigil (Vespers)

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ThuRsDay 12 July

The 1916 ConCerT

M52 11am (ends approx. 12.50pm), Pittville Pump Room £28, £24, £18, Members 10% off (50% concessions apply)

Katharine Gowers violin Beatrice Philips violin Jennifer Stumm viola Adrian Brendel cello Sally Pryce harp Emily Beynon flute Christian Ihle Hadland piano Connie Shih piano

Schoenberg ‘The Iron Brigade’ Rebecca Clarke Lullaby & Grotesque Bax Elegaic Trio for flute, viola & harp Bridge Two Old English Songs Bliss Pastoral for clarinet & piano Busoni Albumblatt Rachmaninov Etudes Tableaux Op.39

JonaThan BlaCk ‘a Weird and eerie BeauTy?’MoDERnIsT ARTIsTs AnD ThEIR VIsIon oF ThE FIRsT WoRLD WAR

MT03 2.30pm (ends approx. 3.45pm) cheltenham Town hall, Drawing Room £6 (£5 when booking three or more), Members 10% off

Many artists’ work was transformed by the shattering experience of the First World War. Jonathan Black, Research Fellow in history of Art at Kingston University, looks at their collective vision of the war in paintings, drawings, prints and sculpture. Ranging across the combatant countries, artists discussed will include Paul nash, Wyndham Lewis, cRW nevinson, Eric Kennington and charles sargeant Jagger from great Britain; Fernand Leger and georges Braque from France; otto Dix, george grosz and Erich heckel from germany;

Umberto Boccioni and gino severini from Italy and natalia goncharova and Kazimir Malevich from Russia.

randall STevenSon: fiCTion and The greaT WarTREnchEs, AngELs AnD IsLAnDs

MT04 4.30pm (ends approx. 5.30pm) cheltenham Town hall, Drawing Room £6 (£5 when booking three or more), Members 10% off

Randall stevenson is Professor of 20th century Literature at the University of Edinburgh, and his new book on literature and the First World War will be published by oUP next year. here, he considers the difficulties, and successes, of fiction emerging from the great War, along with its effects on contemporary literature more generally — on developments from the Edwardian novel toward literary modernism in the 1920s work of Joyce, Woolf and Lawrence.

WWi piano and poeTry

M56 7pm (ends approx. 8.45pm), Parabola Arts centre £15, Members 10% off

Charles Owen piano Katya Apekisheva piano Benedict Cumberbatch reader Margot van Bers Streeter historian

This event brings together a selection of World War one poems and prose with contemporaneous, wartime-related piano pieces.

Debussy En blanc et noir Pièce pour le Vêtement du Blessé Stravinsky Souvenir d’une Marche Boche Granados Marche Militaire Bridge Lament for Solo Piano Ravel Frontispiece Ravel Le Tombeau de Couperin

The BaTTle of The anCre scREEnIng WITh LIVE AccoMPAnIMEnT

M58 9.30pm (ends approx. 10.45pm), Parabola Arts centre £10, Members 10% off

John Sweeney piano

A special screening of one of the great WW1 documentary films, The Battle of the Ancre and the Advance of the Tanks. showing the latter stage of the Battle of the somme, it features here with the original music selection from screenings in 1917.

in partnership with the imperial War Museum

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FRiDay 13 July

The 1917 ConCerT

M60 11am (ends approx. 12.50pm), Pittville Pump Room £28, £24, £18, Members 10% off (50% concessions apply)

Katharine Gowers violin Steven Isserlis cello Connie Shih piano Charles Owen piano Escher Quartet

Fauré Sonata No 1 for cello & piano Weill Intermezzo Debussy Sonata for violin & piano Bartók String Quartet No 2

a Soldier and a Maker By IAIn BURnsIDEA nEW PLAy BAsED on songs, PoEMs AnD LETTERs oF IVoR gURnEy

M62 Fri 13 Jul 5pm (ends approx. 7.15pm) M67 sat 14 Jul 3pm (ends approx. 5.15pm) Parabola Arts centre £20 Members 10% off

Three-quarters of a century after his death Ivor gurney is now celebrated as a poet and a composer. This gloucester-born tailor’s son preferred the term ‘maker’. he was many things

beside: soldier, cricketer, crack shot, cake eater, nightwalker, wit, faithful if exasperating friend and, for the last 15 years of his life, asylum inmate.Interweaving new material with gurney’s own music, poems and letters, Iain Burnside has created a unique piece of music theatre. his talented cast combines 16 singers, 2 pianists and an actor, all from the guildhall school of Music and Drama in London.

‘A heart-rending exploration of war, peace and music’ The Observer

The 1918 ConCerT

M63 8pm (ends approx. 9.50pm), cheltenham Town hall £35 £28 £20 £12 Members 10% off

Anthony Marwood violin Katharine Gowers violin Jennifer Stumm viola Steven Isserlis cello Matthew Hunt clarinet Connie Shih piano Escher Quartet

Stravinsky The Soldier’s Tale suite Bruch String Quintet in A minor Elgar Piano Quintet

At the start of each Time capsule concert, the journalist and broadcaster Julia somerville will read a short news bulletin for the year in question – setting the scene politically and culturally for the music to follow.

Time Capsule: 1914–18 is generously supported by:

Royal norwegian Embassy; cheltenham Racecourse, Elizabeth Jacobs; Mary Mackenzie, Richard Walton and Friends; neil and Ann Parrack; The Patrons of cheltenham Festivals, and in recognition of The Leonora society.

Matisse image reproduced with permission: centre Pompidou, Músee national d’art moderne, Paris

Recorded for broadcast on BBC Radio 3

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