PF2023 Brochure - Flipbook - Page 15
FRIDAY 23 AUGUST (continued)
Event 8
4pm | Assembly Rooms, Presteigne LD8 2AD
WILLIAM MATHIAS AT 90
Composer and Presteigne Festival Vice-President Thomas Hyde discusses the life and work of
the in昀氀uential Welsh composer with his daughter, Rhiannon Mathias, in what would have been
Mathias’ 90th birthday year.
Tickets £8 ꞏ £5 young people (aged 8-25)
End time 5pm
Event 9
7.30pm | St Andrew’s Church, Presteigne LD8 2AF
BLUE SHADOWS FALL
Alice Neary cello ꞏ Huw Watkins piano
Claude Debussy Cello Sonata
Richard Blackford Blewbury Air
Nadia Boulanger Trois pi攃ces
Huw Watkins Blue Shadows Fall
Ludwig van Beethoven Cello Sonata in C, Op 102 No 1
Benjamin Britten Cello Sonata in C, Op 65
Tickets £26 Premium ∙ £18 Unreserved ∙ £1 young people (aged 8-25)
End time 9.15pm
Event 10
7.45pm | Assembly Rooms, Presteigne LD8 2AD
BRIAN AND CHARLES | Welsh 昀椀lm season I
In his lonely Welsh valley home Brian, a lonely amateur inventor, turns a washing machine
and various spare parts into Charles, an arti昀椀cially intelligent robot who learns English from a
dictionary and has an obsession with cabbages.
‘… has homemade charm to spare, proving delightfully ridiculous but also poignant.’
Mark Kermode The Guardian
Classi昀椀ed PG (may be unsuitable for young children)
In association with Presteigne Screen
Tickets £7 ꞏ £3 young people (aged 8-25)
End time 9pm
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