Robert Hardy to narrate world premiere performance of Bristol 2014 arts commission

08 Oct 2014

Robert Hardy CBE will provide the narration for the new work, Silver Rose, by Liz Lane which will be performed by Lydbrook Band as part of a concert on Remembrance Sunday at Bristol Museum and Art Gallery (photos of the event: HERE). Liz Lane is one of the artists commissioned for the Bristol 2014 Arts Projects programme.

Robert Hardy has played four Stratford seasons, two Old Vic seasons, and starred in many plays in the West End and in America. In 1999/2000 he played Winston Churchill, in French, for eight months in Robert Hossein’s spectacular production Celui qui a Dit Non. Films include The Shooting Party, The Far Pavillions, Paris by Night, Le Silencieux, La Gifle, War and Remembrance, Sense and Sensibility, Mrs Dalloway, The Titchborne Claimant, and four Harry Potter films. Television includes David Copperfield, Winston Churchill the Wilderness Years, Little Dorrit, Margaret, the long-running series All Creatures Great and Small and the title role in ITV’s Churchill, The Hundred Days that Saved Britain.

Alice, one of the youngest members of the Lydbrook Training Band, is pictured here when she stood in as narrator, at a recent rehearsal (photograph by Liz Lane).

Comment

A very emotive composition from Liz Lane. Great to secure the services of Robert Hardy CBE as narrator at the world premier in November.
Although young Alice did a wonderful job at sight reading the poems at the bands first formal rehearsal of the new commission.
Going to be a great concert and experience.
Phil Storer
Principal, Lydbrook Band