FULL You Can’t Kill The Spirit (Josh Kaye) London 2024 Hestor Dart, Amy Kearsley, Emily Beech, Juliet Wallace
Information on the Performance
- Work Title: You Can’t Kill The Spirit
- Composer: Kaye Josh
- Libretto: Kaye Josh Libretto Text, Libretto Index
- Venue & Opera Company: The Cockpit, London, UK, Tête à Tête
- Recorded: September 25, 2024
- Type: Staged Opera Live
- Singers: Hestor Dart, Amy Kearsley, Emily Beech, Juliet Wallace
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- Orchestra:
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Information about the Recording
- Published by: Tête à Tête
- Date Published: 2024
- Format: Streaming
- Quality Video: 4 Audio:4
- Subtitles: yessubs, ensubs
- Video Recording from: Vimeo FULL VIDEO
ADDITIONAL INFORMATION ON THIS PERFORMANCE
In 1982 30,000 women held hands and formed a human chain around the US nuclear missile base, Greenham Common. Over a 10-year period there was a camp of women activists who bore witness and protested the weapons stored on the site by the NATO forces.
This piece draws on interviews from friends of the composer Josh Kaye’s grandmother and explores how she was driven to activism in her 60’s. It is a co-creation between an all-female and minority gender group of singers and instrumentalists which will explore how the voice is a key tool of protest and resistance. Throughout the work the performers will create bold and powerful vocal textures whilst telling the very human story standing up for a cause. The work will explore not only the historic importance of Greenham, but the relevance of protest in an increasingly intolerant and oppressive political landscape.