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PLUS: What To Listen For In Music - The French Musical Tradition

  • Jan. 6 - 27, 2004
  • Multiple Venues
  • 1 hour, 30 min
  • $48.00
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Join Irwin Shainman, professor emeritus of music at Williams College in Massachusetts, as he tunes your ears and acquaints your mind with some of musical history's greatest influences. This four-part series surveys the 19th and early 20th century program music and musical impressionism era in France - its wonderful music, composers, and wide-ranged influence throughout the world. Come and explore the music of the masters.

Session I:
19th Century French 'theatrical' Music: Berlioz, Bizet, and Gounod

Session II:
Romanticism and Pre-impressionism; Franck and Faure

Session III:
Impressionism, Debussy and Ravel

Session IV:
The 20th Century, Search for New Sound:

Milhaud, Poulenc, and Messiaen

Part of the Kennedy Center-wide Tchaikovsky Festival

Artists

  • general artist image Irwin Shainman

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