Soundings: New Music at the Nasher: Beowulf

“Beowulf“ was performed by vocalist and Anglo-Saxon harp performer Benjamin Bagby on March 1, 2018 at the Nasher Sculpture Center’s Nasher Hall. Benjamin Bagby brings us the chilling, magical power wielded by the untitled Anglo-Saxon epic poem known as Beowulf. The story has its roots in the art of the scop (“creator”), the bardic story-teller of early medieval England who would re-tell the story of Beowulf in song and speech, accompanying himself on a six-string harp for an audience captivated by the fin