Activity: Talk, presentation, and live performance › Invited talk
Description
Richard Hageman scholar Nico de Villiers joins pianist and composer David Owen Norris for the first of three lecture recitals entitled “The songs of Richard Hageman and other screen-struck European exiles: Wilhelm Grosz, Jaroslav Ježek, Kurt Weill & P.G. Wodehouse”. This lecture explores different aspects as a part of Richard Hageman’s song oeuvre and his colourful life, including performances of a selection of songs by Yvette Guilbert (sung in Ezra Pound’s translations) in each recital as a nod to Hageman’s early experience of touring through the United States of America and Canada with Guilbert in 1906. Included in this lecture are songs by Viennese-born composer, pianist, musicologist, and record producer Wilhelm Grosz (aka Hugh Williams) whose career traversed concert stage, cabaret and popular music.