First performed in 1935,\u00a0Murder in the Cathedral<\/em>\u00a0shows the ultimate struggle of Thomas Becket, Archbishop of Canterbury, an outspoken and courageous priest, gruesomely murdered for opposing the tyrannical rule of Henry II.<\/p>\n Monday 4th November, 7:30pm.<\/strong>\u00a0More information and tickets here<\/a>.<\/p>\n A special evening of spoken word and music to celebrate the work of two of the great artists of the 20th century: Benjamin Britten and T. S. Eliot. The evening is a\u00a0collaboration between the City of London Sinfonia and Faber & Faber to mark the 90th anniversary of the publisher, with whom both Britten and Eliot were linked.<\/p>\n The programme interweaves some of Eliot\u2019s finest verses and Britten\u2019s most remarkable music, with readings including\u00a0Ash Wednesday<\/em>\u00a0and\u00a0Little Gidding<\/em>, and Britten’s\u00a0Serenade for tenor, horn and strings<\/em>\u00a0and\u00a0Variations on a Theme of Frank Bridge<\/em>.<\/p>\n Wednesday 20th November, 7:30pm.<\/strong>\u00a0More information and tickets here<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Murder in the Cathedral To coincide with the 850th anniversary of the Murder of Thomas Becket, Scena Mundi Theatre Company are staging a new production of T. S. Eliot’s\u00a0Murder in the Cathedral in Southwark Cathedral\u00a0\u2013\u00a0the last place that Thomas Becket preached before his assassination. First performed in 1935,\u00a0Murder in the Cathedral\u00a0shows the ultimate struggle of … Continued<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_exactmetrics_skip_tracking":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_active":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_note":"","_exactmetrics_sitenote_category":0,"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_is_tweetstorm":false,"jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false}}},"categories":[3,2],"tags":[],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"acf":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/tseliot.com\/foundation\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13158"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/tseliot.com\/foundation\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/tseliot.com\/foundation\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tseliot.com\/foundation\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tseliot.com\/foundation\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=13158"}],"version-history":[{"count":8,"href":"https:\/\/tseliot.com\/foundation\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13158\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":13171,"href":"https:\/\/tseliot.com\/foundation\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13158\/revisions\/13171"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/tseliot.com\/foundation\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=13158"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tseliot.com\/foundation\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=13158"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tseliot.com\/foundation\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=13158"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}![\"\"](\"http:\/\/tseliot.com\/foundation\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/09\/Southwark-Cathedral_-200x300.jpg\")
City of London Sinfonia – In Place and Time: Britten and T. S. Eliot<\/h3>\n