Events this week at the Martin Harris Centre
08 Mar 2012
Quatuor Danel evening concert and pre-concert lecture at The Manchester Grammar School (9 March) * Literature Live - Colm Tóibín in Conversation with Roy Foster (12 March).
Friday 9 March 2012 (6pm)
Quatuor Danel Pre-Concert Lecture - ‘The Art of War’: Reflections on War and Memorialisation delivered by Professor Philip Grange and Dr. Ana Carden-Coyne
Venue: Drama Studio 1, The Manchester Grammar School
Admission Price: FREE but booking advised as places are limited
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Friday 9 March 2012 (7.30pm)
Quatuor Danel Evening Concert
Venue: The Manchester Grammar School
Admission Price: £10 / £4
- Mendelssohn Quartet No. 6 in F minor, Op. 80
- Philip Grange Ghosts of Great Violence (world première)
- César Franck Quartet in D
The last of Mendelssohn’s six quartets is his most dramatic and Beethovenian. Similar qualities, in a more voluptuous language, define César Franck’s sole quartet. Plus a second chance to hear the new quartet by the North-west’s leading composer.
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Monday 12 March 2012 (6.30pm)
Literature Live - Colm Tóibín in Conversation with Roy Foster
Venue: The John Thaw Studio Theatre, The Martin Harris Centre for Music and Drama
Admission Price: £10 / £5
Colm Tóibín will be in conversation with acclaimed historian and Yeats biographer Roy Foster. They will talk about the politicisation of history and the importance of revisionism in Irish history.
Foster is the author of many books on the political, social, cultural and literary history of Ireland, and the two-volume authorised biography of W B Yeats. His most recent work concerns social and political change in Ireland in the late twentieth century.
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