主持人：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.
The Culture Show - continually connecting visual art and music
Summer is here and it’s time to get out those fashionable straw hats – but don’t wear yours anywhere near a horse! In this episode we try on some of Picasso’s straw hats and hear Jacques Ibert’s Divertissement written for a production of Labiche's stage comedy ‘The Italian Straw Hat’ in 1929. The suite evokes the farce's absurd plot, where a wedding-day tryst is upended by a horse eating a woman's straw hat, sparking a frantic search amid escalating comedy.
And there’s more from Ibert by way of his Symphonic Suite for Orchestra – Paris, accompanied by the artwork of Hector Guimard, designer of the Paris Metro entrances; Jean-François Raffaëlli’s take on Parisian Suburbs; Louis Deutsch’s Mosque; Hugo Birger’s snapshot of a crowded café in a park; John Stewart’s image of a luxurious ocean liner and; Louis Abel-Truchet’s evocation of Montmartre's nightlife during the Belle Époque era.
These paintings complement Ibert’s music brilliantly.
NINO ROTA'S STRAW HAT
We continue on from last week’s episode with another look at the fashionable straw hat in visual art (a classic look that has not changed in centuries), and hear highlights from another score inspired by Labiche’s 'The Italian Straw Hat' - the music of Nino Rota for his opera The Florentine Straw Hat with a libretto written by the composer and his mother.
The hat in question could have looked like the one in Self Portrait in a Straw Hat by Elisabeth Louise Vigée Le Brun or, the one in Leo Putz's impressionistic Lady with a Florentine Hat. We examine both gorgeous works.
主持人：Stacey Rodda 盧廸思
Caillebotte & Caillebotte
In this episode we are going to look at only one painting - Young Man Playing the Piano (1876) by Gustave Caillebotte. Caillebotte was considered an Impressionist, but painted in a more realistic manner, his family and friends, the bourgeois pedestrians strolling in his neighbourhood, the workers who came to his house... This painting, with its exquisite portrayal of light coming through the window, pictures his brother Martial - a composer whose music we will hear in this episode – a unique piece of words and music that is absolutely rare and stunning - Une Journée.
