We are thrilled to welcome Eleanor Chan and Kadiatu Kanneh-Mason here to Hatchards for an evening of discussion and conversation led by Emily MacGregor, centring on the themes of how music has threaded through human history and artistic self-expression.
In Duet: An Artful History of Music Chan explores the inter-relationships of sound and vision, music and art. Taking us on an exhilarating journey that encompasses a 35,000-year-old flute found in a German cave, Kandinsky's kaleidoscopic paintings, illuminated manuscripts and haute couture, we discover a long historical interplay of music and art. But what might it mean to to trulyseemusic?
Kadiatu Kanneh-Mason’s memoir,House of Music: Raising the Kanneh-Masons, won the Royal Philharmonic Society’s Storytelling Award and her most recent book isTo Be Young, Gifted and Black.Through conversations with her extraordinarily gifted family, all classical musicians, Kanneh-Mason explores what it’s like to come of age in these turbulent times, when Black artistic self-expression is so often met with disparagement and abuse online – and offers a hopeful, powerful way through.
Emily MacGregor is a writer, broadcaster, and music historian. Her bookWhile the Music Lastsoffers an erudite, lyrical, gently humorous and healing journey in making and participating in music.
We hope you will be able to come along to what promises to be a very special evening.
