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.
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.
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.
Presenter：Stacey Rodda 盧廸思
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.
21/06/2026
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