Life Story
chamber music sundays
This concert is named after the last item on the programme: Life Story by contemporary British composer Thomas Adès. Scored for soprano, two bass clarinets and double bass, it is a dramatic work inspired by the poem of the same name by Tennessee Williams. The text describes the feelings of two strangers in a hotel room one morning after they’ve “been to bed together for the first time, without the advantage or disadvantage of any prior acquaintance”.