The London Mozart Players performed for the third time at St Peter & St Paul's Church on Saturday 20 th October as part of the Burgh Forward Group's cultural programme.The London Mozart Players have an Orchestral Residency in East Lindsey which was initiated in 2001, and through this connection partnered up with the Wolds Words Literary Festival and introduced special guest of the evening, Helen Monks, a young poet from Birmingham who read a selection of her poems and introduced the musical pieces which perfectly complemented the evening's entertainment .

 

Musical programme :

Schubert - String Trio, D471

Mozart - Quartet for oboe and strings, K370

Britten - Six Metamorphoses After Ovid

Beethoven - Trio in G, Op. 9

 

 

Music

 

Music is the sound of Christmas,

The rhythm on the street,

The touch of the player,

The feeling of the beat,

 

It's the credits of a film,

A solo or a band,

The stamping of the feet,

Or the clapping of a hand.

 

It's rock or jazz,

It's classical or pop,

It's the feeling of the evening,

When you just can't stop.

 

It's when words can not express,

Its things that people have to say,

It's how people let out,

Or when someone wants to pray.

 

It's in a church or a Mosque,

At a party or a play,

When you need cheering up,

Or when everything's ok.

 

Music is a feeling,

An expression or vision,

Music's what we like to hear,

But music's nothing if we don't listen.

 

Helen Monks

Helen, 15, is a Birmingham based poet and performer. In 2005 she became Birmingham 's first young poet laureate (the first position of its kind in the country). She has written and performed her poems at many events including Holocaust Memorial Day, Birmingham looked after children celebration event, National Women's Day and Birmingham Young People's Parliament, as well as taking part in the Birmingham Young Reader's Festival. As well as writing her own spontaneous verse Helen's poems have been commissioned by several organisations including Birmingham City Council, Birmingham Libraries, the Brook Advisory Clinic, BBC West Midlands today, and BBC Jam.

 

Helen is also an actress with the Junior Television Workshop in Birmingham and has recently starred in a short film, Compulsive Gambling Housewife. She plays Pip Archer in BBC Radio 4's The Archers.