Jane Austen 250 - A celebration in music and words

Name: Jane Austen 250 - A celebration in music and words
Start: 2025-03-20T20:00:00+00:00
End: 2025-03-20T22:00:00+00:00
Location: Portsmouth Cathedral

Schedule

Thu Mar 20 2025 at 08:00 pm to 10:00 pm

UTC+00:00

Location

Portsmouth Cathedral | Portsmouth, EN

Accompanied by soprano, Verity Joy and harpist, Annemarie Rhys-Jones, Lisa will transport the audience to a Portsmouth dominated by the Navy, intent on defeating Napoleon, a place familiar to Austen's brothers Charles and Francis, both of whom had illustrious naval careers. Music was a useful propaganda tool to keep up morale after so many years of war, but we will also visit Jane Austen at home and find her using music to amuse, as an emotional outlet and as a plot device in her novels. We will hear how, in her usual subtle way, she leaves clues for us about her characters with music, showing us the rogues and gently poking fun at the lovelorn.
What can Jane's musical tastes tell us about her and about society in general? Join us in this piece of musical time travel to discover the answers.