From highbrow to hoi polloi in music at Boxgrove Priory

SussexWorld

Bibi Heal (soprano) and Milos Milivojevic (accordion) promise the full range of colour and  humour as they bring From Culture to Cafés: a taste of opera and song, from highbrow to hoi polloi to Boxgrove Priory on May 21 as part of Amici Concerts.

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00:00Good morning. My name is Phil Hewitt, Group Arts Editor with Sussex Newspapers. Lovely

00:05to speak again to Bibi Heal. Now, Bibi, you are heading our way again with Milos, and

00:10you're from culture to cafes. It's got a lovely tag, a taste of opera and song, from highbrow

00:18to hoi polloi, Boxgrove Priory, May the 21st. Tell me, what's the flavour of the show? And

00:24obviously, the title says quite a lot, doesn't it? Yeah, it does. We love the idea that we

00:30can bring about all of the colours of humanity and the music that might be expressing that.

00:37We love the upstairs, downstairs quality of it. So the idea that the highfalutin upper

00:42classes are enjoying their opera and the servants below stairs are perhaps enjoying cafe songs.

00:48There's no reason, of course, why there can't be cross-pollination. So we bring both of those

00:53things and we try and show them from every angle. And we particularly love the fact that

00:59the songs have a real raw humanity to them that makes them really easy to get inside and sort of

01:07relate to. And we love the fact that actually, in this context, then we can do exactly the same

01:13with the opera arias, which, for obvious reasons, are sometimes more of a barrier for people to find

01:17themselves in the story. But this is a way of really bringing it down to the same level of

01:23people and what they did.

01:26It sounds fabulous. And Milo should work with before anyway, haven't you? So again,

01:31you two have a great understanding, don't you?

01:34We do. We have a huge shared experience, shared repertoire, shared sense of humour.

01:41And he's, and he's so instinctive with what he does, with how he plays. And so it's,

01:48it's also really possible when you've done something several times in performance, then

01:52actually he might offer something slightly different, or I might, and we suddenly find

01:56ourselves, ah, going a different way in performance, which keeps it completely spontaneous.

02:02And we love it.

02:03Well, it sounds super appealing. Lovely to speak to you. Have a great time.

02:08What a fabulous place anyway. May this one be the first.

02:12From culture to cafes. Lovely to talk. Thank you so much.

02:15You too. Thank you.

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