November features a varied lineup at north-west Essex’s cultural hotbed
There’s a varied programme at Saffron Hall this month. To commemorate the end of the Great War, Britten Sinfonia presents a new arrangement of Nico Muhly’s poignant The Last Letter as part of an evening of music and letters on 10 November. Muhly’s piece intersperses a moving selection of letters by First World War German and British soldiers and their loved ones with music and poetry by composers and poets on both sides.
On 11 November, Saffron Walden Symphony Orchestra presents an Armistice Day concert, featuring music by composers who died on both sides of the front, plus Vaughan Williams’ Pastoral Symphony.
Grammy-nominated Stacey Kent sings tracks from her latest album I Know I Dream on 3 November – an album that features American standards and bossa nova classics – and the following day English Touring Opera joins forces with Granta Chorale, SCYM Junior Choir and SWCHS Voices to perform Bach’s St Matthew Passion.
So Percussion brings selected works from Steve Reich and Bryce Dessner to the venue on 23 November, while Scottish folk pioneers Lau play the venue on 30 November.
