A celebration of the life and work of Geraldine Connor 24 March 2012
Dr-Geraldine-Connor Gala for Geri 7:30 24′th March Theatre Royal Stratford East A celebration of the life and work of Geraldine Connor featuring the words, dance and music that she loved
This special gala in remembrance of Geraldine Connor will have extracts from Geraldine’s best-known work Carnival Messiah – her large-scale reinvention of Handel’s Messiah, originally presented at West Yorkshire Playhouse in 1999 – and feature specially devised performances by some of her favourite collaborators. Participants will include classically trained singers Ronald Samm, Simone Sauphanor and Brian Green, actors Ram John Holder, Renee Castle, Nigel Wong and Jojo Kelly, dancers David Hamilton, Ayo Jones and Jonathan Bishop, a piece by South Asian company Kala Sangam, and music across the spectrum, from steel band to gospel.
Join us for a night to make you smile and make you cry, to make you clap your hands and stamp your feet, but most of all to celebrate the life of Geraldine Connor, a great teacher, composer, performer, director, musicologist and all-round inspiration to us all. There will never be another Geraldine, but this evening is to help keep her memory and her legacy alive. All money generated on the evening will be used to continue Geraldine’s work.
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Will there be a Video for those who can only be there in spirit?
I am saddened by the fact that I will not be able to be there . I have donated a cup for our annual Music Festival in Trinidad and Tobago in Geraldine's name in the gospel category and presented it last night to a wonderful singer from south Mr Stephan Furlonge. Plans are on for Gerrys gala in Trinidad and I will inform all and sundry of the special evening we plan to have at Trinity Cathedral. I continue to miss my best friend and I know she is with the angels and surrounded by music up there in that beautiful beyond. RIP GERRY.