A year full of exciting projects is in the offing! Fiori’s New Year Concert on 18 January heralds the new season with a sparkling concert to mark the 150th anniversary of the great 20th century polymath Dr Albert Schweitzer – Nobel Peace Prize Winner, Bach scholar, philosopher, theologian, surgeon , humanitarian and all-round good egg! This incredible guy took his ‘pedal’ piano to Lambaréné in modern-day Gabon (where he founded a hospital – as you do!) so that he had an instrument on which he could continue to perform Bach. What a man!
Schweitzer’s 150th anniversary is on 14 January, just four days before Fiori’s New Year Concert – an upbeat concert, celebrating Schweitzer the philosopher, in amiable flute quartets from the latter part of the 18th century performed by Heidi Fardell with some of Fiori’s favourite players.
Schweitzer features loudly in the last in our series of Schweitzer-inspired concerts which takes place in Alderton in early April (another of Fiori’s concerts supported by the Continuo Foundation – thank you Continuo Foundation!!) This concert entitled – Hildegard and the Billingsgate trumpet – fetes Schweitzer the healer with music by the amazing medieval composer, poet, author and monastic Hildegard of Bingen, who was also a healer and physician. As for the Billingsgate trumpet…. well you will just have come and hear the one and only Daniel Sarafini perform on this remarkable instrument!
Recipes for the month: Game casserole & bread and butter pudding