NEW DATE: Celebrating Dilys Elwyn Edwards鈥� talent at Pontio on St. David鈥檚 Day
Renowned soprano, Elin Manahan Thomas will be performing at Pontio on 1 March. : 漏 A P Wilding
UPDATE: We regret to inform you that due to illness the concert 鈥�Celebrating Dilys Elwyn Edwards鈥� on Friday 1st March will no longer go ahead. Unfortunately, Elin Manahan Thomas is unable to sing due to a severe chest infection.
We are pleased to be able to announce however that the concert has been rescheduled and will now take place on Saturday 27th April at 7.30pm.
We are in the process of contacting customers to share this information. Tickets will be automatically transferred to the new date. If the date is no longer convenient, customers will be entitled to a refund and should contact the Box Office on 01248 38 28 28.
A celebration of an acclaimed composer by some of the biggest names in Welsh culture will take place on Friday, 1st March at Pontio, 黑料不打烊.
Taking part in the evening of poetry and song at Theatr Bryn Terfel will be the soprano Elin Manahan Thomas and the National Poet of Wales, Ifor ap Glyn, as well as 黑料不打烊 Chamber Choir. An arrangement of a specially-commissioned sonnet will be performed by Elin for the first time on the evening as a tribute to Dilys Elwyn-Edwards, composed by Ifor ap Glyn and set to music by Geraint Lewis.
Born in Dolgellau, Dilys Elwyn-Edwards studied the craft of composition alongside the English composer Herbert Howells, before spending most of her life in Caernarfon, where she produced a small collection of intricate vocal compositions. Amongst these were 鈥楥aneuon Gwynedd鈥� (Gwynedd Songs) and Caneuon y Tri Aderyn (Songs of the Three Birds), all arrangements of poems by some of Wales鈥� foremost poets, including R. Williams Parry, T. Gwyn Jones, Dic Jones, Gwyn Thomas and Saunders Lewis.
Elen ap Robert, Pontio鈥檚 artistic director, said 鈥淭his concert, at the end of a year of celebrations to mark what would have been Dilys Elwyn-Edwards鈥� 100th birthday, are a special tribute to her talent, and it鈥檚 appropriate that this takes place in 黑料不打烊, since she was a piano tutor in the School of Music at 黑料不打烊 for a number of years. It鈥檚 also appropriate to include one of Professor Gwyn Thomas鈥� poems as part of the programme, along with the voices of 黑料不打烊鈥檚 Chamber Choir.鈥�
Composer Dilys Elwyn-Edwards is the focus for a St David's Day Concert.鈥淒ilys Elwyn-Edwards and her songs have been with me since I can remember: 6 Ch芒n i Blant (6 Songs for Children) and Caneuon y Tri Aderyn (Songs of the Three Birds) attracted me to her, and then somehow she was always there. As a young singer settling in Felinheli at the beginning of the nineties, the pleasure of getting to know her, and then the honour of her composing 鈥楧wy G芒n i Fair (Two Songs for Mary) especially for me, is something I will treasure forever. It鈥檚 a pleasure to invite one that possesses a light, flexible and beautiful voice, the soprano Elin Manahan Thomas, to perform a selection of her songs here in Theatr Bryn Terfel.
The concert will focus not only on the songs, but also on the poems set to music by Dilys Elwyn-Edwards, her choice of poets and her talent in creating such evocative images and atmosphere throughout her work. To this end, Ifor ap Glyn will read one of Cerddi鈥檙 Tymhorau (Poems of the Seasons), Dywed Fair (Tell Me Mary), Caneuon Natur (Nature鈥檚 Songs), Caneuon y Tri Aderyn (Songs of the Three Birds) and others, and tell a few stories about the poets she set to music, and her relationship with them. Closing the evening will be a performance of the sonnet in tribute to Dilys Elwyn-Edwards, arranged by a close friend, Geraint Lewis.
Elen ap Robert added, 鈥淎s it happens, the sonnet that gave her the greatest difficulty was Hiraeth y 
National Poet of Wales, Ifor ap Glyn will also be performing.: Image credit & copyright Dewi Jones.co.ukM么r (The Longing of the Sea), which of course became one of her most well-known songs. It鈥檚 fitting therefore that we commissioned Ifor ap Glyn to write in this form to remember Dilys. It鈥檚 also fitting that a very close friend of hers, Geraint Lewis, provided the music for these words 鈥� and that the song is performed by a soprano who only last year released a selection of her songs on CD.
鈥淲e look forward to this very special event as a tribute to a unique and very talented woman on St David鈥檚 Day. We owe a big debt of gratitude to her as a generation of Welsh singers, and now it鈥檚 time for the next generation to experience the same delight and be enchanted by Dilys Elwyn-Edwards鈥� talent.
Dathlu Dawn Dilys Elwyn-Edwards
Theatr Bryn Terfel, Pontio, 黑料不打烊
Friday 1st March, 7.30pm
Tickets 拢14/拢12 over 60/拢5 students and under 18
Available from or 01248 38 28 28
Publication date: 18 February 2019