Nicholas Hytner during his Frederick Ashton Foundation Lecture, June 2019. ©Frederick Ashton Foundation, 2019.
The Frederick Ashton Foundation establishes the Frederick Ashton Lectures, to be given every two years by a distinguished member of the arts community to honour the memory of Sir Frederick Ashton and to advance public understanding and debate about the arts.
Ashton’s understanding of the human condition, his knowledge of historic style and the influences of artists with whom he collaborated, fed his genius. He was inspired when creating his ballets not just by music and movement but by a range of interests, including the visual arts, architecture, design, literature and poetry, and thus the subject matter of each lecture will be selected from the arts in their widest sense.
The first Lecture, presented by the Frederick Ashton Foundation in association with the Wallace Collection, is given by Sir Nicholas Hytner, former Director of the Royal National Theatre and joint founder of the Bridge Theatre, in front of an invited audience and the general public at the Wallace Collection, Hertford House, Manchester Square, London W1 on Tuesday 25 June 2019. Titled We must leave the killing out, Hytner’s lecture focusses on keeping the classics of the stage alive.
June 2019