主持人：Stacey Rodda 盧廸思
MAY 2025 FOCUS: FRANCE
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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 wirh Ms.Klára Jurčová, Consul General of the Czech Republic in Hong Kong
MAGRITTE AND THE TUBA
Clouds, pipes, bowler hats, green apples and tubas: these remain some of the most immediately recognisable icons of René Magritte, the Belgian painter and well-known Surrealist. This week we focus on the tuba in Magritte’s work – in particular, The Central Story (1927), Threatening Weather (1928) and The Discovery of Fire (1935). We’ll hear music written for the instrument by Sophia Gubaidulina, her ‘Lamento’, Widening Circles by Joshua William Mills and Asha Srinivasan’s Dyadic Affinities.
Magritte, Monet and Storms
In this episode we look at rain and storms in the paintings of a major figure in Belgian Surrealism, Rene Magritte, and a major figure in French Impressionism, Claude Monet.
The connections…
Danish composer Rued Langgaard composed his Symphony No. 15 the same year as Magritte’s ‘The Song of the Storm’, and its concluding section features his setting of The Night Storm to a poem by Thøger Larsen.
Liszt accomplished conjuring up a thunderstorm in his first book of Years of Pilgrimage, but more of a psychological storm than a meteorological one. And that is the connection to Magritte’s ‘Golconda’ where it’s raining men – 171 of them.
Claude Monet also portrayed rain and storms. We look at his atmospheric ‘Cliffs at Pourville, Rain’ accompanied by the impressionist music of Debussy’s ‘What the West Wind Saw’ – demanding and violent, a more tranquil depiction of precipitation comes by way of Chopin’s Prelude in D-flat, Op. 28, No. 15 which also accompanies this Monet well.
主持人：Stacey Rodda 盧廸思
DEGAS AND DANCE
Degas represented dancers in almost all mediums. For him the moving figure was the most compelling challenge, and in dance he found his ideal subject. Degas also sought to capture fleeting moments in the flow of modern life, yet he showed little interest in painting plein-air landscapes, favoring scenes in theaters and other venues illuminated by artificial light.
Degas was personally interested in dance. He followed productions closely and critically, both at the Opéra and elsewhere yet, very few of his depictions of dance show an actual performance. Instead, the artist hovers behind the wings, backstage, in class, or at a rehearsal. We’ll find out why.
