Good news for the performance of
The Traveller on 8 July.
Vikram Seth has managed to alter his travel plans and will be flying in from Italy for both the pre-concert talk and the performance. Vikram's six new poems and translations of over 20 Indian texts from languages including Sanskrit, Pali, Hindi, Urdu, Bengali, and Tamil, have been set to stunningly beautiful music by
Alec Roth. It also seems that BBC Radio 3 will be recording the evening for delayed broadcast which is a hat-trick for Lichfield, although I have yet to be contacted directly by Auntie.
Last night was the second performance
The Traveller, taking place at the
Chelsea Festival. By all accounts it went really, really well. This is also an opportunity to draw attention to a few things from the world premiere performance at
Salisbury Festival at the end of last month
- the review in The Times on 2 June
- a video interview with Vikram Seth taking about his writing
- opening night video interviews with Chelsea Festival Director Stewart Collins and me
The other good news is that the first year of this four-year
Confluences project,
Songs in Time of War, has been recorded and is due for release on 30 June by
Signum Records (SIGCD124).
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