FITZROVIA CHAPEL CONCERTS

with Dr Joseph Sonnabend

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The #AIDSMemoryUK Fitzrovia Chapel Concerts – including the debut of Joseph Sonnabend, featuring music written at the height of the battle against AIDS in NYC, and works by Aaron Copland, John Cage, Richard Rodney Bennett, Casandra Miller, Ethel Smyth, Matthew Lee Knowles, Francis Poulenc, Amoret Abis and Luke Stoneham. World premières of works by Morgan Hayes, Joseph Sonnabend and Andrew Toovey. Additional vocal music by Joseph Sonnabend, performed by Emma Tring ( Soprano) and Jessica Gillingwater (Mezzo Soprano) and pianist Neil Georgeson.

Curator: Ash Kotak

https://www.buzzfeed.com/patrickstrudwick/this-doctor-was-one-of-the-first-to-identify-aids-now-hes

I Treated New York’s First AIDS Patients: Dr Joseph Sonnabend is an HIV/AIDS pioneer and a musical composer. Outlook BBC World Service.

https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/p06crn2t

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