Tuesday Research Seminar
Research Seminar/Lecture-Recital - Raymond Clarke and Professor Anthony Powers: Elliott Carter's Piano Sonata and Night Fantasies
Tuesday 09 December 2008, 16:30 - 17:30
Victoria's Room, Victoria Rooms
Raymond Clarke (University of Bristol) and Professor Anthony Powers (Cardiff University)
We will hear complete performances of the two major piano works by America’s most senior composer, Elliott Carter, who celebrates his 100th birthday on 11th December and is still actively composing. Carter describes Night Fantasies as 'a piano piece of continuously changing moods, suggesting the fleeting thoughts and feelings that pass through the mind during a period of wakefulness at night', a work in which he wanted 'to capture the poetic moodiness that, in an earlier romantic context, was enjoyed in works of Robert Schumann like Kreisleriana, Carnaval and Davidsbündlertänze'.
This seminar is presented in association with CHOMBEC (Centre for the History of Music in Britain, the Empire and the Commonwealth), which is an important university centre within the Faculty of Arts. Its director is Professor Stephen Banfield. Housed in the Victoria Rooms, it promotes knowledge and outreach ranging from international research to Lifelong Learning study days.