Friday, 30 August 2024

Hay Music Festival

 The box office is open for the ninth Hay Music Festival - a weekend of concerts, films and discussions from Friday September 13th to Sunday September 15th.

There's even a whole Festival ticket, costing £105, to cover all the events apart from the Hay Remembers guided walk and the two films, which are paid for separately.

One of the films, Testimony, is a life of Shostakovich starring Ben Kingsley, and the other is The Death of Stalin, Armando Iannucci's dark comedy, so there's a definite Russian theme to the festival this year.  Music by Shostakovich is included in most of the concerts and there's also a lecture/discussion about the composer.

The concerts include the Fitzwilliam String Quartet and Sinfonia Cymru string quartet at St Mary's Church as well as a piano and cello concert.

Meanwhile at the Castle there's an experimental composer performing The Inside-Out Piano.

All the details and ticket prices are on the Hay Music Trust website.

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