26 Jul

15:30

Grachtenhuis Rozengracht 55 H

Rozengracht 55H, Amsterdam

Marcel Beekman and Steven Faber give an intimate house concert featuring music by Schumann, Liszt and Chopin, exploring the less 'straight' or 'binary' aspects of these composers and their work.

House Concert Marcel Beekman (tenor) and Steven Faber (piano)

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Marcel Beekman (tenor) and Steven Faber (piano) give an intimate house concert featuring music by Schumann, Liszt and Chopin. These composers were born within about a year and a half of each other (1810–1811). It has taken more than a century and a half to recognise that these men and their art are less ‘straight’ or ‘binary’ than often assumed. From In Chopin’s case we now know this from his letters. Schumann sets poems by Heinrich Heine, who in the 19th century—while identified as heterosexual—questioned heteronormativity. Liszt chooses texts by 14th‑century Francesco Petrarca, for whom gender fluidity was commonplace. Tenor Marcel Beekman and pianist Steven Faber explore as queer performers what this means to them, and invite the audience to join that exploration.