“Hope is the thing with feathers, that perches in the soul, and sings the tune without the words, and never stops at all”
– Emily Dickinson

“Thou wast not born for death, immortal bird!
No hungry generations tread thee down;
The voice I hear this passing night was heard
In ancient days by emperor and clown …”
– John Keats, Ode To A Nightingale

“No bird soars too high if he soars with his own wings”
– William Blake

“Just by the wooden brig a bird flew up,
Frit by the cowboy as he scrambled down
To reach the misty dewberry”
– John Clare, The Yellowhammer’s Nest

“If it looks like a duck and quacks like a duck, we have at least to consider the possibility that we have a small aquatic bird of the family anatidae on our hands”
– Douglas Adams

“Be like the bird who, pausing in her flight awhile on boughs too slight, feels them give way beneath her, and yet sings, knowing she has wings”
– Victor Hugo

“God gives every bird his worm, but He does not throw it into the nest”
– PD James

“Poetry is like a bird, it ignores all frontiers”
– Yevgeny Yevtushenko

“Hail to thee, blithe spirit!
Bird thou never wert”
– Percy Bysse Shelley, To a Skylark

“I caught this morning morning’s minion, kingdom of daylight’s dauphin, dapple-dawn-drawn falcon”
– Gerard Manley Hopkins, The Windhover

“A bird does not sing because it has an answer, it sings because it has a song”
— Maya Angelou

Beethoven recital at Shute

PIANIST Stephen Beville comes to Shute in East Devon for a recital at St Michael’s Church, on Friday 14th March, at 7.30pm, part of the continuing Shute Festival

Acclaimed in 2010 by the Frankfurter Neue Press as “one of the most talented young musicians to emerge from the UK,” Stephen Beville is a pianist and composer. He has performed throughout Britain and Germany and has broadcast on radio stations in Germany and Britain. He has performed at international festivals and his debut CDs were released in 2012 to critical acclaim.

At Shute beautiful church, with its fine acoustic, he will be playing three Beethoven piano sonatas, including the Pathetique and the monumental Hammerklavier.

His own compositions have been performed by The Manson Ensemble, Music-Projects London, Ensemble Firebird, The New Ensemble and the Badisches Staadtskapelle, among others.

To book or for more information, visit shutefest.org.uk

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Beethoven recital at Shute