The Byron Festival at Trinity

The programme includes:

  • Talks about Byron, by academics and writers including Bernard Beatty, Drummond Bone, Clare Bucknell, Will Bowers, Christine Kenyon Jones, Mathelinda Nabugodi, Seamus Perry, Diego Saglia, Dan Sperrin, Jane Stabler, Fiona Stafford, A.E. Stallings, Andrew Stauffer, Corin Throsby, Clara Tuite, Ross Wilson.
  • A concert featuring settings of Byron’s poems by Schumann, Wolf and others including Hugh Wood, and a newly commissioned piece composed by Judith Weir, the Master of the King’s Music and Honorary Fellow of Trinity.
  • An exhibition in the Wren Library centred around Trinity College’s extensive Byron collection, including original manuscripts, letters and first editions of works by Byron and his circle, plus new art responding to Byron.
  • Readings of newly commissioned work by various writers.

Tickets are £10 for 1 day or £15 for 2 days. Registration is essential!

For full details see: https://www.trin.cam.ac.uk/event/bicentenary-commemoration-of-lord-byron/

 

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