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Cello - In Search of a Voice

Dr Kate Kennedy · Gresham College

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How do we tell stories of past voices through a cello, the voice of its player? This lecture explores what it means to be separated from your voice, and to find it again.Dr Kate Kennedy traces a journey she took across Europe with her cello, to uncover the stories of instruments and their players. The result was a host of eccentric, sometimes tragic, always extraordinary accounts of silencing and survival, from the Auschwitz orchestra to a shipwreck, and even a cello full of bees.

The talk

  1. Cello - In Search of a Voice 2026-09-09 · Audio

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Institution
Gresham College
Speaker
Dr Kate Kennedy
Year
2026
Level
For everyone
Language
English
Subjects
History, Art, architecture and design, Music
Source
Gresham College
Licence
Educational use (Gresham College's terms), as Gresham College states it. Gresham College's terms
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