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Concert | Fairest Isle: Music and Poetry from Britain (English Song Recital with Graham and Robin Bier)

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Doors open at 7:00 pm

$20 Adults, $15 Basic Members/Seniors/Students, free for Gold and Patron Members.

Advance tickets available until 5:00 pm on Thursday, May 9. Call 267-502-2990 to purchase. Tickets will also be sold at the door, subject to availability, beginning at 7:00 pm on May 11.

A special performance showcasing the talent of Les Canards Chantants co-directors, Graham Bier, bass-baritone, and Robin Bier, contralto, with acclaimed Philadelphia pianist Mark Livshits.

The music is selected to showcase the best of English poetry exquisitely set to music by English composers, including pairings of:

Robert Louis Stevenson and Ralph Vaughan Williams
William Shakespeare and Gerald Finzi
John Keats and Charles Villiers Stanford
A.E. Housman and George Butterworth
Robert Browning and Arthur Somervelle
W.H. Auden and Elisabeth Lutyens