MEDIA

Browse our collection of media from the ELECTRIC VOICE THEATRE Eliza Flower Project. You will find videos of live performances, workshops and events; recordings of her music; image galleries from the Conway Hall archive, research activities, workshops, performances, talks and more

Live Performances

Playlist celebrating the music of
Eliza Flower (1803–1846)

Extracts from “Flowers of the Seasons – Politics, Power & Poverty” premiere performance, Conway Hall London, Oct 2023. Songs, poetry and story-telling, in the context of her contemporaries, Franz Schubert and Fanny Mendelssohn-Hensel.
Extracts from “Flowers of Spring” A Celebration of the music of Eliza Flower (1803-1846), Zoom performance April 2023
“Flowers of the Seasons – Politics, Power & Poverty” Live at Newcastle University, May 2024
“Flowers of the Seasons – Politics, Power & Poverty” Live at St John’s ARC, Harlow, February 2024
“Flowers of the Seasons – Politics, Power & Poverty” premiere performance, Conway Hall, London, Oct 2023.
Eliza Flower ZOOM performance ELECTRIC VOICE THEATRE “Flowers of Spring, Politics, Power & Poverty”

The Performance at St John's Arc 25th Feb 2024

Flower of the Month

Playlist of Eliza Flower’s “Songs of the Months” A Musical Garland (1834)

January A Chime for the New Year
Text: Sarah Flower Adams (1805-1848)
February St Valentine’s Day
Text: Charles Pemberton (1790-1840)
March Winds and Clouds
Text: Sarah Flower Adams (1805-1848)
April Tears and Smiles
Text: Charles Pemberton (1790-1840)
May A May-day Memory
Text: Alexander Hume (1809–1851)
June Summer Song for the Open Air
Text: Catherine Partridge
July The Wanderer’s Lullaby
Text: Sarah Flower Adams (1805-1848)
August The Harvests of Time
Text: Harriet Martineau (1802-1876)
September An Autumn Song
Text: Mary Howitt (1799 – 1888)
October Falling Leaves
Text: Sarah Flower Adams (1805-1848)
November Come to thy home!
Text: Sarah Flower Adams (1805-1848)
December Winter Minstrelsy
Text: Charles Pemberton (1790-1840)

Songs of the Months was published by A. J. Novello in December 1834. Each song had appeared throughout 1834 in the Monthly Repository – the journal of South Place Chapel where Flower’s life and work was based. During 2024 we are serializing the songs on YOUTUBE.

Eliza Flower
Archive Exhibition

Carl Harrison, Honorary Archivist at Conway Hall Library, talks with ELECTRIC VOICE THEATRE’s Artistic Director, Frances M Lynch about the exhibition he created to compliment our performance of “Flowers of the Seasons – Politics, Power & Poverty”

Workshops

ELECTRIC VOICE THEATRE Eliza Flower Project Workshops

Eliza Flower Project – Workshop & Performance Extracts, Millman Street Community Centre, London part of our “Flowers of the Seasons – Politics, Power & Poverty” Tour.
ELECTRIC VOICE THEATRE Young Singers Workshop Conway Hall, London Jan 27 2024. The final event of an online course in ensemble singing techniques.
Eliza Flower Birthday Celebration Workshop, 19th April, 2024 with Christopher Hatton Primary School
Eliza Flower Newcastle Project – School Workshops May 2024 with Chillingham Road Primary and Gosforth Central Middle Schools

HARLOW

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The Flower family home in Harlow

This is the Georgian doorway and you can see a plaque which is dedicated to her sister the poet, Sarah Flower Adams, famous for pening "Nearer My God to Thee"

The family Tomb in Foster Street near Harlow

Women of Science & Music: 30 celebrations
Episode 23: Flowers of Spring

Eliza Flower (1803-1846)
This is a birthday celebration podcast for this unsung composer who was born on April 19th, 1803. Its a snippet of a much longer conversation between our ELECTRIC VOICE THEATRE artistic director, Frances M Lynch and music historian, Oskar Jensen – NUAcT Fellow in Music at Newcastle University and BBC New Generation Thinker for 2022.