Σεμινάριο του Dr. Ben Arnold για το "A Quartet for the End of Time" του Messiaen

22 Οκτωβρίου, Τρίτη, 5-7μμ, Αμφ.2 Τμήμα Ιστορίας

 Σεμινάριο του Dr. Ben Arnold στο μάθημα «Εισαγωγή στη Φιλοσοφία, Αισθητική και Σημειολογία της Μουσικής» (καθηγήτρια Α.Σιώψη)

 Το σεμινάριο μπορούν να παρακολουθήσουν όλοι οι ενδιαφερόμενοι φοιτητές.

Τίτλος σεμιναρίου:

Messiaen’s Quatuor pour la fin du temps (A Quartet for the End of Time)

Summary

This class will explore a unique work in music history: a composition for clarinet, violin, cello, and piano first performed in a German prisoner-of-war camp on 15 January 1941 before an audience of several hundred prisoners and guards. While incarcerated, the thirty-one-year-old Messiaen ruminated on the abyss, the angel announcing the apocalypse, and the end of time in an astonishing musical creation. We will explore his ideas on music in the work that most established his reputation, Quatuor pour la fin du temps (A Quartet for the End of Time).  

Dr. Ben Arnold (piano and musicology) a musicology professor and Director at the School of Music, University of Kentucky, specializes in the music of Franz Liszt (The Liszt Companion, Greenwood Press) and the topic of music and war (Music and War, Garland Press). He serves as the Journal of the American Liszt Society editor and frequently performs as a collaborative pianist with soprano Elizabeth Packard Arnold.