The 2019 Richard Burton lecture took place in the Great Hall on Swansea University's Bay Campus, entitled 'Now I become myself' in which Welsh composer, Rhian Samuel talked about her life as a composer of classical music in the USA and the UK, from a time when women composers were an extreme rarity to today, when they are much more prevalent.
She was aided by Siân Dicker (soprano) and Kristal Tunnicliffe (piano), who performed Cerddi Hynafol (Ancient Songs), settings of three medieval Welsh texts apparently by women, and the song ‘Before Dawn’, set to a poem, ‘Mourning to Do’, by American May Sarton.
The lecture was organised by the Richard Burton Centre for the Study of Wales, Cultural Institute, Swansea University and was attended by myself, the Lady Mayoress, the Deputy Mayor of Neath Port Talbot, the Mayor of Neath Town Council and Richard Burton's widow, Sally Burton. The event was part of the Being Human festival, the UK’s only national festival of the humanities, taking place 14–23 November.
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