What is Noise? Beauty and Taste in 20th Century Music This lecture will explore our changing understandings of noise and taste in relation to the shifting socio-political landscape of the 20th century.
An Introduction to Film Music Music has always been closely associated with film. From Saint-Saëns...
Metamorphoses – The Terrible Beauty of Change A Fusion of Benjamin Britten's "Six Metamorphoses After Ovid" (Op.49)...
Being a Guitarist in the Time of Byron and Shelley With a player’s insight (a guitar of 1825 is my...
Haydn in London: The Revolutionary Drawing Room This concert looks at 18th century music making and the...
From Trocadero to Troxy: A tradition returns Eighty years ago, three enterprising sons of Russian immigrants realised...
The Tyranny of Charity: Patronage, Philanthropy and State Intervention This lecture explores the relationship between art and charity, from...
Twentieth-Century Divas: Shirley Bassey The Black Welsh singer started out recording cover versions of...