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Beethoven's epic penultimate piano sonata, Opus 110
Preceded by a talk about Jenny's year-long bike journey, the people she met in my travels who heard this sonata, anecdotes and adventures. She's pictured above playing in front of the cathedral in Syracusa, Sicily.
There's a brief "hitch hikers guide" to the music: the gestures of humanity expressed through the musicand finally, the sonata performed all the way through.
It is, if you like, a marriage of the inner and outer journeys of the music and landscape. It is a powerful affirmation of life and human resilience. It's autobiographical in that he was dreadfully ill when he wrote it and yet he rises like a phoenix despite being convinced his end was near. The music moves through fragility and despair to end in a triumphant blast of defiance
2020 is the 250th anniversary of Beethoven's birth in December 1770 in Bonn, Germany.
Tickets: £10 or £8 or £5 (or by donation) please pay what you can.
Doors and bar open 30 minutes before the show is due to start.
Ashburton Arts Centre, 15 West St, Ashburton, Devon, TQ13 7DT
Different ticket prices are all for the same unreserved seats. Pay what you can.
Tickets in advance from wegottickets.com/ashburtonarts (10% booking fee added) or in person from Rafikis (next door to the Arts Centre), Ashburton Information Centre and on the door.
To reserve a ticket, email boxoffice@ashburtonarts.org.uk
Accessibility: Venue has flat access from street. PA tickets available on request. Wheelchair users, please get in touch with the box office in advance if possible.
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One of the best small UK music venues The Guardian
Free parking after 6pm and all day Sunday in the Town Car Park behind the Town Hall, and in the Grey Matter compound on Chuley Road.
Ashburton Arts Centre is a community-owned and run place where the arts of all kinds happen.
It opened in 2018 in the town's old Methodist Church. Come see world-class live music, theatre, etc plus local performers, classes and community events.
15 West Street,
Ashburton,
Devon,
England,
TQ13 7DT.
07980 680052
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