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Orpheus – Life after Death Unlike other Greek Heroes Orpheus was basically peaceful. He braved the Underworld and was one of the Argonauts. Ever since he has been a major influence for artists and composers. This course was run at the City Lit on Saturday 3rd March 2018. We studied the Greek Myths surrounding Orpheus… Read more »
- Posted on: March 25, 2018
- Featured in History, History features, Music, Music features
- Also tagged Ancient Greece, Ancient Rome, Art History, British Museum, European History, German composers, Gluck, Greek Myths, Italian composers, Monteverdi, Offenbach, Opera, Orpheus
This tag: French composers
MUSIC AND ART INSPIRED BY SHAKESPEARE No. 6 All’s Well That Ends A Summary of the earlier talks and some examples taken from Twentieth Century Music and Art including some Popular ones. Music – Fantasia on Greensleeves by Vaughan Williams. That work is misleadingly called the “Fantasia on Greensleeves” by Vaughan Williams despite not really… Read more »
- Posted on: August 2, 2016
- Featured in History, History features, Music, Shakespeare, Shakespeare
- Also tagged American composers, English Composer, European History, Italian composers, Melvyn Bragg's In Our Time, Shakespeare400
This tag: French composers
MUSIC AND ART INSPIRED BY SHAKESPEARE No. 2: Love’s Labours Some Music and Art inspired by Shakespeare’s great love stories, especially Romeo and Juliet but also Othello, Much Ado About Nothing and others. Opening Music – Opening of Act III of Prokofiev’s Ballet “Romeo and Juliet” That music is not the most conventional for a… Read more »
- Posted on: July 20, 2016
- Featured in History, History features, Music, Shakespeare, Shakespeare
- Also tagged American composers, Berlioz, Coleridge-Taylor, Elgar, English Composer, Henry Fuseli, Italian composers, Melvyn Bragg's In Our Time, Mendelssohn, Modern history, Opera, Pre-Raphaelites, Richard Dadd, Romeo and Juliet, Shakespeare400, Tchaikovsky, Women Composers