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The Concert
Date
11 July · Sat · 7pm
Venue
St Nicholas · New Romney
Tickets
£25 · Standard
U18s · Free
Duration
60min (no interval)
Artists
Alexander Armstrong · actor & baritone
Madeleine Shaw · mezzo soprano
Andrew Matthews-Owen · piano
"The Twenties were drenched in melody." — Beverly Nichols
A century ago, a decade emerged from a pandemic, a financial crash and a war. It answered, in Zelda Fitzgerald's phrase, "with audacity and rouge", and with cocktails, new plays, new fashions and a wave of new music. Noël Coward, Ivor Novello, the Great American Songbook. Songs that have outlived almost everything else from the era.
Indulge in an evening of music, told and sung.
Alexander Armstrong, actor, baritone and Classic FM's weekday host, is joined by mezzo-soprano Madeleine Shaw (English National Opera, Glyndebourne, La Scala) and pianist Andrew Matthews-Owen, whose Paris 1913 was named The Times' Classical Recording of the Year 2025. Christine Croshaw's script carries the decade through the evening: the laughter, the love, the gossip, the intrigue. And the inevitable sense, as the Twenties closes, that the party's over now.
But what a decade it was.
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