It's a dwindling band; old-fashioned and of a certain age, you can
pick us out at funerals and memorial services because we can sing
the hymns without the book. Alan Bennett writes: In 2001 the Medici
Quartet commissioned the composer George Fenton to write them a
piece commemorating their thirtieth anniversary. George Fenton
appeared in my play Forty Years On and has written music for many
of my plays since, and he asked me to collaborate on the
commission. Hymn was the result. First performed at the Harrogate
Festival in August 2001, it's a series of memoirs with music.
Besides purely instrumental passages for the quartet, many of the
speeches are under-scored, incorporating some of the hymns and
music I remember from my childhood and youth. The text includes
both words and music. Hymn is coupled with Cocktail Sticks, an
oratorio without music that revisits some of the themes and
conversations of Alan Bennett's memoir A Life Like Other People's.
A son talks to his dead father as his mother yearns for a different
life. It's funny, tender and sad. The pinnacle of my social life is
a scrutty bit of lettuce and tomato and some tinned salmon. Mind
you, I read in Ideal Home that if you mix tinned salmon with this
soft cheese you can make it into one of those moussy things. Shove
a bit of lemon on it and it looks really classy.
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