How did you celebrate International Women’s Day? Probably not with your feet up listening to Hildegard of Bingen.
That kind of celebration comes on Thursday evening 21 March at St Paul’s Worthing . . . 7pm doors/bar-café . . . 7.30pm concert-play about her life: ‘Vision – the Imagined Testimony of Hildegard of Bingen’. It features TV primetime series actress Teresa Banham as Hildegard and musicians The Telling whose Clare Norburn wrote this. Direction is by long-term TV creator, Nicholas Renton. There’s Q&A including audience questions.
If I start talking about Hildegard of Bingen now, I’ll never stop. I’ll ‘just’ say that the figurehead woman of The Early Middle Ages inspired The Body Shop founder Anita Roddick with her natural healing, nutrition, mysticism and philosophy. She’s a modern heroine.
Her reputation and action battled its way though male-dominated Medieval society until its leaders and rulers finally swallowed something humble and sought her advice. And it strove on through a further nine centuries of obscurity until today’s men granted her recent sainthood. Do we call that modern progress?
Her poetry and music, discovered only in the 1970s, makes her the first composer in history to be known by name, and now the western world’s favourite female composer. It’s music that sounds out of this world, yet is earthly and sensual, and stirs our own souls’ connectivity with the imagined but undefinable. What a musical personality to possess.
As an experience, with these artistes, at this venue, in this ambience, this intimate presentation, it will be special. Full information, production pictures, links, opinions, insights, recommendations, click to ‘About’ and ‘Discussion’ at: