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― Benjamin Franklin

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― Tom Paine

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– Patrick Henry

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– Christopher Hitchens

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― Thomas Jefferson

“Liberty must at all hazards be supported. We have a right to it, derived from our Maker”
– John Adams

“There is no retreat but in submission and slavery! Our chains are forged! Their clanking may be heard on the plains of Boston! The war is inevitable; and let it come!”
– Patrick Henry

“As in absolute governments the King is law, so in free countries the law ought to be King; and there ought to be no other”
― Thomas Paine

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– John Dickinson

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– George Washington

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― Marquis De Lafayette

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– Declaration of Independence, 1776

Romantic violin-piano dialogue

THE 2026 season of recitals at the Tincleton Gallery, at the Old School House, Tincleton near Dorchester, opens on Friday 13th and Saturday 14th February, with piano-violin duo Milda Daunoraite and Amber Emson. The programme is an evening of romantic musical dialogues – just right for Valentine’s Day.

Pianist Milda Daunoraite is studying with Tessa Nicholson at the Royal Academy of Music where she is a recipient of the ABRSM Scholarship award. She has performed at the Wigmore Hall, Amsterdam Concertgebouw, Musikhuset Aarhus, United Nations headquarters in Geneva, at the EMMA World Summit of Nobel Prize Peace Laureates in Warsaw and many other eminent events and festivals.

Amber Emson won first prize at the International Competition Hohenpriesnitz and second prize at International Competition Szymon Goldberg. She has performed in venues including Elbphilharmonie Hamburg, Berliner Philharmonie, Wigmore Hall, Singapore Victoria Hall, ANAM Quartethaus Melbourne and Rheingau Musikfestival.

They will be playing Clara Schumann’s Three Romances for violin and piano, brimming with lyrical tenderness and deep emotion, Richard Strauss’s violin sonata in E-flat major, Lili Boulanger’s Nocturne, Elgar’s Salut d’Amour, de Falla’s Danse Espagnole and Brahms’ violin sonata No 3.