From Thin Air: Minimalist and Process Music from Africa to Arvo Pärt This lecture delves into musical forms which rely on the...
Formal and Informal Empire in the Nineteenth Century From the end of the Napoleonic Wars to the 1880s...
Trading Places and Travelling - Musical Legacies of the Hanseatic League The cities of Northern Europe developed their trading links with...
The Age of Dictatorship: Europe 1918-1989 - Hitler The second lecture in the series turned to Germany, where...
The Tyranny of Charity: Patronage, Philanthropy and State Intervention This lecture explores the relationship between art and charity, from...
The Fate of the October Revolution under Stalin When Lenin died in 1924, he had effected a temporary...
Should we pay the piper? Issues of artistic patronage Art has never flourished without some form of patronage, but...