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Brahms at The Red Hedgehog
Bedford Music Club is proud to present a
weekend festival of Hungarian music and culture:
‘Brahms at The Red Hedgehog’. Join us for a deep
immersion into the cultural melting pot that was
C19 Vienna!
Brahms is our focus but why ‘The Red Hedgehog’?
The Red Hedgehog, a popular tavern in Vienna,
was a regular watering hole for many famous
composers including Schubert, Schumann and
Mendelssohn. And an elderly bachelor, one
Johannes Brahms, who in later years hardly ate or
drank anywhere else! This weekend’s events
explore the kinds of Hungarian music that Brahms
would have heard at the tavern and how popular
idioms found their way into his greatest works,
not least his sublime Clarinet Quintet.
Over the weekend we will be immersing ourselves
in Brahms’s sound world and exploring how
cultures and musics mix and re-thinking what
‘originality’ means in today’s world of artificial
intelligence and mash ups.
Brahms at The Red Hedgehog is the first outing
for Re:Past a new festival experience from
Bedford Music Club that will explore how cultures
and musics influence each other. Re:Past will run
twice a year in the Autumn and Spring. Each
weekend will explore a particular theme in depth
through talks, concerts, film and other cultural
experiences.
