A cellist's journey across Europe uncovers hidden cello histories—a Siberian Stradivarius, Auschwitz survival, silence turned to sound.
How do we tell stories of past voices through a cello, the voice of its player? This lecture explores what it means to be separated from your voice, and to find it again. It traces a journey I undertook across Europe with my own cello, to uncover the stories of instruments and their players. The result was a host of eccentric, sometimes tragic, always extraordinary accounts of silencing and survival, from the Auschwitz orchestra to a shipwreck, and even a cello full of bees.
A lecture by Dr. Kate Kennedy
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- 1 hour
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Gresham College
Barnard's Inn Hall
Holborn London EC1N 2HH
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