Presenter：Stacey Rodda 盧廸思
The Culture Show has been making direct connections between art inspired by music and music inspired by art. Now it’s time for more - unexpected connections...The Culture Show is continuing its look at how the visual arts and music are so connected - sometimes directly, sometimes indirectly. We have unearthed a wealth of examples, yet we have so much more to explore. I hope that for those of you who join me for the music – much of which has never been, or is very seldom played on Radio 4 – you will also develop my passion for art. Join me, Stacey Rodda, Sunday nights at 7 pm for The Culture Show.
Degas and Jazz
In this episode we look at Degas before his dancers. Did you know that the artist produced over 40 oil paintings and pastels depicting the race track and, that Duke Ellington composed a work inspired by them?
As the pastime of horse racing bounded onto the Parisian social scene, we will look at a few of Degas’s celebrated race track paintings that focus on the horses’ restless anticipation, energy and tension; the jockeys; and the surrounding Belle Époque society.
We’ll hear Ellington’s The Degas Suite and the story behind the music.
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Women at the Piano |
Presenter：Stacey Rodda 盧廸思
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.
