And for your Evening Performance:

White in the Moon the Long Road Lies

A recital of song settings and readings from A. E. Housman’s

A Shropshire Lad and More Poems

including songs by Butterworth, Barber, Ireland and Berkeley

and piano works by Ireland and Bax

Sung by former WNO Mezzo-Soprano Cassandra Manning

with renowned pianist and accompanist Caroline Jaya-Ratnam

Cassandra Manning studied on scholarship in London, where she was the recipient of the John Ireland Prize, and the LCM Society Medallion for Performance.

She represented her conservatoire in the Inter-College Concert Series at the Purcell Room, London, and was a finalist in the Cosmopolitan magazine’s Woman of the Year Award. Cassandra began her career at Welsh National Opera, touring nationally and internationally. Most recently, she sang Mezzo Solo in Verdi’s Requiem, at Ely Cathedral.

Caroline Jaya-Ratnam is an international artist who read music at Cambridge University.

She has given duo recitals at the Wigmore Hall and Royal Festival Hall, and broadcast live on Radio and Television. She has performed in Proms with the LSO, including Stravinsky's Firebird conducted by Gergiev, and the Human Planet Prom featuring the music of Nitin Sawhney. More recently, Caroline has performed with the BBC Symphony Orchestra, and with John Wilson’s Sinfonia of London, as well making recordings with Naxos.

Cassandra devised two recitals for University College London based on the life and works of A. E. Housman and Thomas Hardy, performing these alongside Caroline Jaya-Ratnam. They are both delighted to be reprising the Housman recital in The Marches!