About This Event

 

🇵🇸Tipping Point: A Classical Music Journey from Grief into Action🇵🇸

Friday 24th October, 7pm Music Start – Peredur Centre for the Arts, W Hoathly Rd, East Grinstead RH19 4NF

🫒🥨 Levantine refreshments and snacks from 6-7pm and post performance ☕️🫖

Join us for a moving evening of music, poetry, and community in support of Oxfam Gaza Crisis Appeal. Tipping Point brings together world-class classical musicians for a programme that weaves violin, cello, piano, and voice into a journey from sorrow to hope and action.

Featuring:
🎻 Jonathan Truscott – Violin
🎹 Will Hancox – Piano
🎻 Ben Hess - Cello
🎶 Noa Lachmann – Soprano
🎶 Ben Hancox-Lachmann – Tenor

Program

6pm to 6:45 Snacks and refreshments at The School Studio

6:45pm Seating at the Theatre

7pm Show start

Introduction by Will Hancox

Edward Said Quotes

Handel — “Total Eclipse” (from Samson)
“We Travel Like Other People” — Mahmoud Darwish

Max Richter — Mercy
“The Peace of the Wild Things” — Wendell Berry

Debussy — Pour l’Œuvre des vêtements du blessé
“Love Poem” — Summer Awad

Debussy — Élégie
“What Words Can Do” — A Poem for Palestine

Poulenc — Bleuet
“My Name is Hani Mahmoud” — Hani Mahmoud

Puccini — Senza mamma
“I Come From There” — Mahmoud Darwish

Hugo Wolf — Lebe wohl
“It’s Also Fine” — Mourid Barghouti

Brahms — Auf dem Kirchhofe
Apollinaire / Debussy Quotes

Debussy — Noël des enfants qui n’ont plus de maison
“I Saw a Child” — Lucinda Warner

Tchaikovsky — Souvenir d’un lieu cher
“We Teach Life, Sir” — Rafeef Ziadah

Messiaen — Louange à l’Éternité de Jésus
“Because” — Rosemerry Wahtola Trommer

Fauré — Après un rêve

8:30pm Snacks and refreshments at The School Studio

Readers

Emma Cole
Kaustubh Vaidya
Stu Goodwin
Hannah Robson
Dani Johnson

 

The concert will be enriched with spoken word reflections and complemented by Levantine pastries and tea, offering space for nourishment and connection.

This is a community concert with top classical musicians, standing together in solidarity through the arts. Limited seating available.

Entrance from 6pm, music starts at 7pm.

Please bring cash for refreshments.

✨ All proceeds go directly to Oxfam Gaza Crisis Appeal.