Blogging Woolf

Here is a roundup of music and movie news of interest to followers of Virginia Woolf and the Bloomsbury group.

• Pianist Lana Bode has just released her debut album “I and Silence: Women’s Voices inAmerican Song” with mezzo-soprano Marta Fontanals-Simmons. The album includes a performance of Dominick Argento’s song-cycle “From the Diary of Virginia Woolf,” which some may remember them performing at the 26th Annual Conference on Virginia Woolf at The Clothworkers’ Centenary Concert Hall in Leeds in June 2016.
• “Jigsaw,” a 1962 film and Jack Warner’s last, includes some locations of interest to Woolfians — from Brighton to Lewes to Rodmell, along with a 10-second scene of Fr
• ank Dean’s garage with the Abergavenny Arms in the background at 1 hr., 10 min., 9 sec. The film is available on DVD.
• “Inside Out South West” on BBC iplayer, 16 September 2019, has many shots of Godrevy Lighthouse in the background.
• According to Amazon, this year’s film “Vita and Virginia” will be on sale as a DVD on 28 October in the UK. It is currently available in the U.S. for rent.