Music

Ensemble Émigré presents: The Wayfarer

Wed 30 May 2018
7:00PM

A programme of songs and chamber music exploring human mobility and exile, including Gustav Mahler’s Lieder eines Fahrenden Gesellen, Vaughan Williams’s Songs of Travel and works by Egon Wellesz and Alexander Zemlinski, interspersed with excerpts from the book The Freedom of the Migrant by the Czech-born philosopher Vilém Flusser (1920-1991).

Ensemble Émigré are:

Sigridur Osk, mezzo-soprano

Norbert Meyn, tenor

Ingrid Pearson, clarinet

Christopher Gould, piano

Joseph Kohlmaier will read excerpts from 'The Freedom of the Migrant’ by the Czech-born philosopher Vilém Flusser (1920-1991).

Ensemble Émigré was founded by Norbert Meyn in 2016 following the “Singing a Song in a Foreign Land” project at the Royal College of Music.

Hieronymous Bosch, The Wayfarer, 1500

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Austrian Cultural Forum London
28 Rutland Gate
London SW7 1PQ