Presenter：Stacey Rodda 盧廸思
MAY 2025 FOCUS: FRANCE
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…connecting music to visual arts, literature, film and theatre while discovering the delights of these arts in different parts of the world
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The Culture Show with Mr. Benjamin Cabouat, Consul for Culture, Education and Science in HK and Macao
The Culture Show with Mr. Benjamin Cabouat, Consul for Culture, Education and Science in HK and Macao
The Culture Show with Mr. Benjamin Cabouat, Consul for Culture, Education and Science in HK and Macao
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The Culture Show with Mr. Timo Kantola, Consul General of Finland in Hong Kong
The Culture Show with Mr. Timo Kantola, Consul General of Finland in Hong Kong
The Culture Show with Ms. Alice Fratarcangeli, Director of the Italian Cultural Institute in Hong Kong and Macau
The Culture Show wirh Ms.Klára Jurčová, Consul General of the Czech Republic in Hong Kong
This week we revisit Pierre-Auguste Renoir, and examine the way music influenced his life and work.
Renoir's first love was for singing, not painting. Gounod took him under his wing. But painting eventually became his true passion. As a lover of music like most Impressionists, Renoir often represented musical themes in his work - piano playing, dancing and attendees of concerts and operas as in his famous ‘La Loge’. We will hear rarities like Poulenc playing Satie, and highlights from a few forgotten Offenbach operas.
ROSSETTI, LEIGHTON AND THE HARP
The visual arts have been influenced by music and musical instruments for as long as we can imagine. In this programme, we look at the unique aesthetic beauty of the harp featured in ever so many paintings.
La Ghirlandata (1873) by Dante Gabriel Rossetti is incredibly beautiful. In it, he uses deep, rich greens and golds for the woman’s robe and the lush foliage that surrounds her. Rossetti’s subject looks directly at the viewer while playing a gilded harp. Musical instruments figure prominently in Rossetti’s work. His Morning Music captures an intimate domestic scene complete with a musician playing a type of lute.
Edmund Blair Leighton’s The End of The Song (c. 1902) depicts one of the world’s greatest legends - the tragic tale of the forbidden but undying love between the Cornish knight Tristan and the Irish princess Isolde. In this painting, Tristan, a gifted harpist, has just serenaded his beloved Isolde with a song of love.
You can imagine the music to come…
Presenter：Stacey Rodda 盧廸思
As we continue to explore symbiotic relationships between examples of visual art and classical music – our final episode on Salvador Dali.
Dance is a motif often found in his painting, and we explore examples of his art where some form of dance is present - work created during the formative years of Dalí’s artistic journey, a period before he fully embraced Surrealism which falls within the realms of Post-Impressionism and Symbolism.
We view some of his ‘theatrical’ works including Broken Bridge and the Dream and Queen Salome along with those he created for The Seven Lively Arts, specifically those for music, opera and - ballet.
