THOROUGH BASS AND HUMAN NATURE: A musical tour through Pride and Prejudice with Gillian Dooley

This programme of scintillating readings from Jane Austen’s Pride and Prejudice is studded with music from her personal music collection, including piano pieces and songs by Joseph Haydn, Thomas Arne, Georgiana Cavendish, Christoph Willibald Gluck. Dance music, operatic arias, folk songs and charming ballads illustrate each reading, from the excitement of the Meryton Ball through the times of doubt and despondency to the happy conclusion at Pemberley.

Soprano Gillian Dooley is Honorary Senior Research Fellow in English at Flinders University, Adelaide. Over the past six years she has devised and presented programmes of Jane Austen’s music in Adelaide, Canberra, Sydney and the United Kingdom

Pianist Fiona Mccauley has been playing in Jane Austen’s music programmes since 2009.

This lecture is kindly supported by The Friends of The Johnston Collection.

(artist unknown), Regency young lady playing the pianoforte, early 19th century