During LGBT History Month in 2023, Robert Hugill presents Out of the Shadows. The recital at Hinde Street Methodist Church features pianist Nigel Foster, with Ben Vonberg-Clark (tenor) and James Atkinson (baritone) in the premiere of Hugill’s two cantatas, Out of the Shadows and Et expecto resurrectionem. There will also be a number of Robert Hugill’s songs, including love songs, settings of Michaelangelo’s sonnets and a depiction of an Aids candlelit memorial in Memorare.
Out of the Shadows takes us from the earliest tentative admissions of same-sex attraction to cruising in a bathhouse in Imperial Russia to Walt Whitman’s unashamed admission of his sexuality. Et expecto resurrectionem mortuorum moves between the certainty of the Latin creed, to explorations of cryogenic, the body-snatching of Burke and Hare and Mary Shelley’s Frankenstein, before resolving in the homoerotic pantheistic transcendentalism of Walt Whitman with its celebration of Death itself.
Buy tickets to Out of the Shadows
Out of the Shadows will take place at 7pm on Friday 3rd February 2023 at the Hinde Street Methodist Church, 19 Thayer St, London W1U 2QJ and features Ben Vonberg-Clark (tenor), James Atkinson (baritone) and Nigel Foster (piano).
