Kurt and the Sophisticated Lady
Penelope Turner, voice
Andrew Wise, piano
A woman between ages, between men. A love between excitement and destruction. Somewhere between sweetness and sadness. Somewhere between classical and jazz.
Proud of being difficult to classify, ‘Somewhere in Between’ is a story from the buffer zone: what happens in those ‘in between’ areas that make life interesting. Featuring songs from the 1920s, 30s and 40s, Kurt and the Sophisticated Lady experiments with music whose sweetness contrasts – sometimes brutally – with the sharpness of the lyrics. (Just think of Kurt Weill’s ‘Mack the Knife’ with its fun, swinging, jazzy music and the words that are as hard as steel.) Although many songs from this era are sugar sweet and sentimental, we concentrate on the pithier stuff – music that was formed by the context in which it was created.
10€
Kurt and the Sophisticated Lady
Sunday 02 October 2016
Live session at 5pm – Free Entrance
Penelope Turner, voice
Andrew Wise, piano
A woman between ages, between men. A love between excitement and destruction. Somewhere between sweetness and sadness. Somewhere between classical and jazz.
Proud of being difficult to classify, ‘Somewhere in Between’ is a story from the buffer zone: what happens in those ‘in between’ areas that make life interesting. Featuring songs from the 1920s, 30s and 40s, Kurt and the Sophisticated Lady experiments with music whose sweetness contrasts – sometimes brutally – with the sharpness of the lyrics. (Just think of Kurt Weill’s ‘Mack the Knife’ with its fun, swinging, jazzy music and the words that are as hard as steel.) Although many songs from this era are sugar sweet and sentimental, we concentrate on the pithier stuff – music that was formed by the context in which it was created.
10€
