Music of the Enlightenment

  Concert at Dalkeith Palace October 4th  4.30                            

On Saturday October 4th at 1630, there will be a delightful concert at Dalkeith Palace in Dalkeith Country Park. As part of the exhibition, PhotoDalkeith, which features work by many of Scotland’s finest photographers, this concert will focus on the extraordinary opera that Jean-Jacques Rousseau composed, ‘Le Devin du Village’. Part of the exhibition features the photographs by Robin Gilanders of Rousseau’s garden at Ermenonville, and after a short talk on Rousseau’s final days at Ermenonville by Peter France, former Professor of French at Oxford University, Caroline Taylor (soprano), Magnus Walker (tenor) and Brian Bannatyne-Scott (bass), accompanied on Dalkeith’s own 18th century square piano by Dr John Kitchen, will perform extracts from ‘Le Devin’ and the young Mozart’s pastiche of the opera, ‘Bastien und Bastienne’.

 Tickets are available from the Dalkeith Palace website:

https://www.dalkeithcountrypark.co.uk/event/photodalkeith-events/

under Events, priced £15, for which you get a glass of wine, a talk and a concert, and then the chance to wander round the exhibition at your leisure.

An event not to be missed!