Artistic Temperaments Festival 2024

[kernelbogey]

Turner Sims, in association with the University of Southampton Music Department, presents a three-day keyboard festival. Now in its second year, Artistic Temperaments celebrates music performances on beautiful antique instruments.

We showcase the Department’s remarkable collection of keyboard instruments, from the 1770s to the present day. Hear favourite pieces as you’ve never heard them before.

Alongside brilliant performances from professionals and students, the Festival also makes room for YOU to play. Sign up for a private session to try your favourite Mendelssohn Song without Words on a nineteenth-century piano, or that lovely Bach Prelude on a harpsichord.

Travel: Turner Sims Concert Hall is on the campus of the University of Southampton. There are buses from Southampton train station to the University.

[Pulcinella]

I thought that this might be a spoof, awarding gongs for the most histrionic performances.

[french frank]

I thought that this might be a spoof, awarding gongs for the most histrionic performances.

I admit I did misunderstand 'artistic temperaments', and thought Turner Sims would be performing (Sims I inderstand to be a benefactor, Turner not yet identified). More relevantly, I wonder how the U of S Music Department came to own such a collection of instruments? The festival sounds like a pretty useful event, including sessions by 'our own' DON,

[mopsus]

Southampton University has some interesting musical material in its library's Special Collections, including scores and letters formerly owned by Anna Mahler (I'm not sure what her connexion with Southampton was). I had the privilege of looking at some of them, including Mahler's conducting score, with emendations, of a Beethoven symphony. https://www.southampton.ac.uk/archiv...uidemss22.page