The Words and Music of Edward Lear
David Owen Norris, Piano and Mark Wilde, Tenor

The Edinburgh Society of Musicians,
3 Belford Road
Saturday 9th March at 3:15pm

We are all familiar with Edward Lear’s nonsense poems but he was also a composer, naturalist, landscape artist and taught Queen Victoria to paint.

Please arrive at 3:15 for a 3:30 start. There will be refreshments after the concert.
The suggested donation is £8 for supporters and £10 for guests.

If you cannot make it then try for:

StAnza 19: The Music of Edward Lear
David Owen Norris, Piano and Mark Wilde, Tenor
Sunday 10 March at 8:00pm

In her new book, Inventing Edward Lear, Sara Lodge draws on Lear’s diaries, letters and new sources to explain his engagement in the intellectual, social, and cultural life of his times. For StAnza 2019’s final evening, she is joined by musicians Mark Wilde and David Owen Norris to present a glorious celebration of Lear in word and music. (here to buy tickets).

If you have a 7-11 year old (or can borrow one) you may want to attend:

StAnza 19: Laughable Limericks
A children’s workshop with Sara Lodge
Sunday 10 March at 12:00

“We’ll be playing with rhyme and rhythm, nuance and nonsense, and enjoying Lear’s limericks in order to write and illustrate our own.” (here for more)