Presenter：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
MAGRITTE AND MUSIC
…and making indirect connections. From his Art Deco sheet music covers for foxtrots and tangos, to his surrealist paintings evoking sound such as La Leçon de Musique (a floating ear on a bell) - these works will be 'accompanied' by the music of Piazzolla, Couperin and we'll hear Edgar Varése’s Arcana, written precisely during the years when surrealism emerged from Dadaism in France and Belgium – inspired by a dream sequence.
WATTEAU REVISITED
Jean-Antoine Watteau is best remembered as a painter of the fête galante – dreamlike compositions of depictions of aristocrats at play in the outdoors. Almost a third of Watteau’s works feature musicians. We look at his La Leçon de musique, Les Charmes de la vie and Le Mezzetin of Commedia dell'Arte fame which inspired Debussy’s Masques. Many of Watteau’s musicians played either the guitar or theorbo and we’ll hear Les folies d’Espagne by Marin Marais arranged for guitar, and Robert de Visée’s Suite in C minor for the strange, but enchanting theorbo.
Presenter：Stacey Rodda 盧廸思
MAGRITTE AND MUSIC
…and making indirect connections. From his Art Deco sheet music covers for foxtrots and tangos, to his surrealist paintings evoking sound such as La Leçon de Musique (a floating ear on a bell) - these works will be 'accompanied' by the music of Piazzolla, Couperin and we'll hear Edgar Varése’s Arcana, written precisely during the years when surrealism emerged from Dadaism in France and Belgium – inspired by a dream sequence.
