Wimbledon Music Festival 'CORNO DI BASSETTO'

TIMOTHY WEST plays George Bernard Shaw as a music critic

Timothy West

Towards the end of his life, when he was eighty, Shaw compiled a volume of his music criticisms, and prefaced it with a long autobiographical piece, one of his most self-revealing works. As he searches through his writings, quoting from pieces he wrote in his youth, he makes revealing observations about himself, and the changed musical landscape as it developed from late romanticism in the 1880s, through the a-tonal revolution, to idioms quite unknown to the young Corno di Bassetto.

Many consider GBS's early writings as a music critic to be amongst the most witty and engaging of all his works.

This is a once only opportunity especially created for Timothy West and the Festival