This is a last minute concert, as Brad Cooper is in town with his highly acclaimed Kabarett show (which is on tour from Australia). Ross Alley has agreed to accompany Brad to support our Friends and supporters at the beautiful Leighton House. This museum has been recently refurbished.
The house was the former home and studio of the leading Victorian Artist, Lord Leighton, It is one of the most remarkable buildings of the 19th Century, containing a fascinating collection of paintings and sculpture by Leighton and his contemporaries.
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Not to be missed .
Isla Baring OAM
Chairman
Tait Memorial Trust
KABARETT!
Night is not only there for sleeping…
Leighton House, 12 Holland Park Road, London W14
7:00 for 7.30pm. Wednesday, 23 September 2015
BRAD COOPER tenor
ROSS ALLEY piano
Prepare to be transported in the luxurious surrounds of London’s Leighton House as Brad and Ross take you on a comic romp through the best-loved and most popular Cabaret song repertoire. From the wartime hits of Coward and Novello via Austria, America and Australia through to the irreverence of today, KABARETT! is a celebration of wild eclectic decadence and dangerously dark humour.
PROGRAMME
Ivor Novello
Shine Through My Dreams
Tom Lehrer
Poisoning Pigeons in the Park
Noël Coward
London Pride
Hans May
Heut ist der schönste Tag in meinem Leben…
Erich Korngold
Glück, das mir verblieb
Noël Coward
Nina
Robert Stolz
Ob blond, ob braun, ich liebe alle Frau’n
Noël Coward
Someday I’ll Find You
Ivor Novello
Rose of England
Theo Mackeben
Die Nacht ist nicht allein zum Schlafen da
Tom Lehrer
The Masochism Tango
Norbert Glanzberg
Padam Padam
Hans Eisler
Ballade von der Krüppelgarde
Erich Korngold
Mond, so gehst du wieder auf
Dillie Keane
‘Lieder’
Marilyn Miller & Cheryl Hardwick
Making Love Alone
Percy Grainger
Colonial Song
Charles Dumont
Non, Je ne regrette rien!
Dillie Keane
Stick Your Head Between Your Legs
ABOUT THE ARTISTS
Brad Cooper trained at the Sydney Conservatorium of Music, the National Opera Studio, London, and with Marilyn Horne at the Music Academy of the West, California. Now resident in Australia, Brad debuted as Albert in Albert Herring for Opera Australia in 2013. This season Brad performs Tamino in Magic Flute for Opera Australia and Orfeo in Haydn’s Orfeo ed Euridice under Richard Bonynge. With pianist David Barnard he presents Don’t Mention the War for Melbourne Recital Centre, Broken Hill Regional Gallery.
Memorable appearances include Tamino in Die Zauberflöte and Belmonte in Die Entführung aus dem Serail (Oper Köln), Don Alonse in L’Amant Jaloux (Opéra Comique, Paris), Conte Almaviva in Il Barbiere di Siviglia (Opera Holland Park, London), Clem in Hamel’s Snow White (Nederlandse Reisopera) and Davey in Dove’s Siren Song (Grachtenfestival, Amsterdam).
Brad is thankful for the support of Tait Memorial Trust, Nance Atkinson Trust, Johnson Bequest, Australian Opera Auditions Committee’s Dame Joan Sutherland Award and Australian Singing Competition.
Ross Alley is a native of New Zealand, he worked as a pianist and music teacher at the National School of Ballet and the Australian Ballet Company and School before moving to England. In London he was employed by the Royal Ballet School as a pianist, with responsibilities as a music tutor to develop the teachers’ training course and create the pianists training program for aspiring ballet accompanists.
Mr. Alley is closely associated with the Cecchetti Society, researching, editing and arranging music for the syllabi. He lectures on classical music at the Royal Opera House, organized by the Royal Opera House Education Department with the University of London and Friends of Covent Garden.
