Summer Concert
"IN THE MOOD"
Saturrday June 22nd
Christ Church, Freemantle
Les chansons des roses
February 2024
Anglo-French concert, May 20th 2023
The sprig of thyme, February 2023
New year concert, February 2022
Felicia Hemans was once a household name whose work was admired by Shelley and Wordsworth. Sadly, apart from “The Boy stood on the Burning Deck” and “The Stately Homes of England” (mercilessly parodied by Noel Coward) she is not often given the prominence she deserves today. She was born in Liverpool in 1793, the daughter of a prosperous wine merchant and died in Dublin in 1835. Her first poems were published when she was just 14 and she went on to complete 7 volumes of writings, in her short life.