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Samples of his music, biographical details, press quotes and a full list of works are available here.

 

'Forthcoming Performances'

A Night of Conscience

 

WEDNESDAY 28 JUNE 7.30PM:

Intoduced by Tony Benn
St. James Church, 197 Piccadilly, London, W1J 9LL

On the 28th June Keith will perform songs from his anti war cycle Vergissmeinnicht (forget me not)at this Stopthewar benefit event in support of Malcolm Kendall-Smith , the soldier who has been sentenced to eight months in prison for refusing to fight in Iraq.Others taking part will include Ken Loach , Michael Nyman , Vivienne Westwood , Janet Suzman , Mark Thomas  ,Mark Steel , Walter Wolfgang and Tony Benn.

Support Malcolm Kendall-Smith

Tickets £15 by calling 020 7278 6694 or by sending a cheque made payable to 'Stop the War Coalition' to Stop the War Coalition, 27 Britannia Street, London WC1X 9JP.

 

  

The Splendour of Light , Concerto for Orchestra.

 

I returned to London last autumn , 2005 , from Edinburgh straight after the controversy of my and Dic Edwards’s opera Manifest Destiny -set among would be suicide bombers who renounce violence - and its controversial press in the Festival. The composition of Splendour of Light , a Concerto for Orchestra , took place over the next few months and the tensions of that summer therefore flowed into the new work. I was struck by the intense heat in London at the end of August after the relative coolness of Edinburgh – a heat in which the swirling fear from the bombs of July was still palpable , a sort of tragic glamour.This perhaps found immediate expression in some of the complexities of the new Concerto for Orchestra and its stark contrasts of dark and light.

 

  

Premiere and further performances -

  Premiere - St Judes Proms Second performance Third performance  
  St Judes On The Hill , Central Sq ,
London NW 11
 		 St Johns Smith Sq. Westminster ,
London SW1
 		 Anghiari Festival ,
Tuscany , Italy
 		  
  Saturday 17th June 7.30pm
 

Tuesday 11th July 7.00pm
 

 Sunday 23rd July
 		  
  Programme also includes:-
Brahms Piano Concerto No 2
and Mozart Linz Symphony
 		 Concert in memoriam Edward Heath MP
 
 

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For information on the first full production of
Manifest Destiny at the Edinburgh Festival click here.

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