Susan Tomes: Major Minor History

Throughout history, women have been excluded from learning and performing the piano. Even the modern instrument’s keys are still designed to fit men’s hands. In Women and the Piano, concert pianist and author Susan Tomes tells a new history of the instrument by celebrating the lives of fifty different women who played piano. Join Tomes in conversation with Kate Molleson as they discuss these remarkable pianists.

Categories: History, Music, Nonfiction

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Poetry & Performance

Our line-up this year is a brilliant demonstration of everything exciting in UK poetry: diverse, eclectic in form and content, and ranging from ‘the best words, in the best order’ (to quote John Donne) to poems which demand to be spoken and lifted from the page completely…

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