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
Braque and Satie
In this episode we look at the influence Erik Satie had on Georges Braque and look at the artist’s 1921 work ‘Guitar and Glass (Socrates) - Guitare et verre (Socrate)’, where Braque references parts of Satie’s score for his symphonic drama ’Socrate’. Braque shared a deep friendship with Satie and the work was born from this friendship.
We will hear Satie’s ‘Socrate’ in its entirety – a work that stands as a deliberate, serene antithesis to the dramatic excesses of 19th-century opera.
We will also look at a lithograph by Braque inspired by the mythology of Ancient Greece – ‘Phaéton, (Chariot I)’, filled with symbolic power, and hear the symphonic poem of Saint-Saens on the same subject.
BRAQUE'S VIOLINS
Georges Braque co-founded Cubism with Pablo Picasso and revolutionized 20th-century painting. Where Analytical Cubism breaks objects into fragmented, muted-color planes to analyze form, the later Synthetic Cubism reverses this, building or 'synthesizing' images from simple, bright shapes, collage, real materials and found objects. We will explore works by Braque that embody both types of Cubism, all of which feature the violin.
And, we will hear works for the violin considered 'Cubist' because they, much like the paintings, deconstruct the apparent stability of the violin's traditional sound, offering multiple viewpoints and rhythmic fragments. On the programme: Hindemith, Stravinsky and Schoenberg.
Presenter：Stacey Rodda 盧廸思
ALEXANDER CALDER'S MUSICAL INFLUENCE
Pierre Boulez, Roman Haubenstock-Ramati, György Ligeti, Witold Lutosławski and others compared their work to mobiles, and Calder's kinetic sculptures became a source of inspiration where the individual elements move freely yet within a structured, balanced framework. The concept drove dynamic innovations to the musical score - “open” scores, which require active participation and decision-making by the performer. Art and music collide once again...
