主持人：Stacey Rodda 盧廸思
MAY 2025 FOCUS: FRANCE
VIDEO PROMOTIONS ...
…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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FOCUS: FRANCE
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
SAINT CECILIA
The first part of a 3 part series on St. Cecilia, the patron saint of music. The series showcases diverse interpretations of music from Baroque grandeur to 21st-century reverence, and looks at a selection of the many visual masterpieces that have been created to honour her.
On this programme:
ART
French artist Gustave Moreau’s stunningly beautiful gouache and watercolor over graphite on woven paper mounted to wood panel; British artist Kate Bunce’s Pre-Raphaelite work in vibrant colours, with detail of medieval and early Renaissance art; one of the Pre-Raphaelite influenced stained glass windows created by British artist Edward Burne-Jones and designer William Morris
MUSIC
Gabriel Jackson’s La Musique - a setting of poems by Elizabeth Bishop and Charles Baudelaire on the transformative power of music; Gerald Finzi’s ceremonial ode For St Cecilia; Benjamin Britten’s response to Auden’s extraordinary imagery in his Hymn to St Cecilia
主持人：Stacey Rodda 盧廸思
REMBRANDT, DALI, AND THE HARP
We continue our look at visual art depicting the harp through the ages from Rembrandt to Dali. We begin with Rembrandt’s Saul and David (1655).
Rembrandt, arguably the greatest master of rendering the human soul in painting, filtered out of the twenty-five-hundred-year-old story what he had to say to his own 17th century Holland. One of his great masterpieces, it exquisitely depicts the pain, suffering and anguish of the old king which David is trying to sooth with his harp playing.
We then enter the 20th century and continue our exploration of visual art featuring the harp with a stretch - something he continually did in his paintings - with Meditation on the Harp created by the renowned Surrealist artist Salvador Dali.
Dali often proclaimed music as being far inferior to painting as an art form, yet he depicted violins, cellos, guitars, pianos and other instruments in his works. Dalí himself had a complex relationship with music, publicly disparaging it, while apparently privately enjoying it.
Music by Handel and Satie complete the programme.
