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Dame Patricia Routledge and Piers Lane in Admission One Shilling at Bishopsgate Institute

by Staff Writer
November 7, 2018
Reading Time: 2 mins read
Dame Patricia Routledge and Piers Lane c Gussie Welch

Dame Patricia Routledge and Piers Lane c Gussie Welch

Autumn 2018 has welcomed the return of concerts to Bishopsgate Institute, celebrating the restoration of their Piano in Residence, Myra: the beautiful 1927 Rosewood Steinway Model D Grand piano once owned by beloved British pianist, Dame Myra Hess.

Admission: One Shilling is a musical and theatrical collaboration between multi-award-winning actress Dame Patricia Routledge and international concert pianist Piers Lane, tells the extraordinary, inspiring story of Myra Hess and her famous wartime National Gallery concerts.

Compiled from her press and radio interviews during World War II by Myra’s great-nephew, composer Nigel Hess, Admission: One Shilling is Myra in her own words: redoubtable, courageous and inspiring. This acclaimed show has toured for almost a decade yet these 17 November performances at Bishopsgate Institute will mark the first occasion that the pieces are played on Dame Myra Hess’s very own Steinway & Sons piano.

       

Through spoken word performance taken from letters, books and interviews given by Myra, interspersed with short piano pieces by Schubert, Schumann, Brahms, Beethoven and JS Bach – hear, how the ‘great adventure’ of these lunchtime concerts began, and how they continued while bombs rained down on London.

“It will be a powerful and poignant experience, for both Piers and myself, to be telling the story, through words and music, of Dame Myra Hess’s unique and inspired contribution to the nation, during the anxious years of the Second World War. That our performance is to take place at the Bishopsgate Institute in the company of one of the instruments Dame Myra Hess actually played will, I am sure, make for a significant experience for all of us”. – Dame Patricia Routledge

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“I am delighted that Admission: One Shilling, a piece about my great-aunt Dame Myra Hess is being performed at Bishopsgate Institute. These performances will be particularly special as Piers Lane will be playing on the piano given to Myra by Steinway which has been at the Institute for several years and has recently been extensively refurbished in Steinway’s Hamburg workshop. To hear Myra’s own piano telling her own story in this way will be an unique experience, both for her family and, I am sure, for the audience as well.” – Nigel Hess

Admission: One Shilling is at Bishopsgate Institute on Saturday 17 November 2018 at 2pm and 9pm.

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