Tuesday 20th September, 10.00am-12.00pm, Pantygwydr Baptist Church, Ernald Place, Uplands, Swansea SA2 0HN for 10 weeks.
Course fee: £30 (tbc) – payment & registration on the first day of the course.
Topic: Czechs
Smetana, Dvořák, Suk and Janáček – four of the most famous Czech composers. They all produced music in many genres, but Smetana and Suk are, maybe, best known for their tone-poems, Dvořák for his symphonies and Janáček for his operas.
Centred around the nine symphonies of Dvořák, a chance to (re)examine this rich musical tradition.
Dvořák: Symphony No. 3 in E-flat (opening)
Wednesday 21st September, 2.00-4.00, St. James Church Hall, Walter Road, Swansea SA1 4QF for 10 weeks.
Course fee: £40 (tbc) – payment & registration on the first day of the course.
Topic: Impression or Expression?
Music in the late nineteenth/early twentieth century
Monet’s Haystacks and Munch’s Scream, are they painterly equivalent of much that was happening in music at the end of the nineteenth century?
A musical journey from the outside in and the inside out.
Debussy: Les sons et les parfums tournent dans l’air du soir
(Sounds and scents turn in the evening air)
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The Art of Listening 