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January 2025 Newsletter

Watch and listen to our January 2025 video newsletter - Music and the Visual World

 

Classical Music Daily publishes a newsletter, usually on the first day of each month. Here is our January 2025 newsletter, No 189, Music and the Visual World, which takes the form of an online discussion, led by John Dante Prevedini, which took place and was recorded on 16 December 2024. The running time is just under an hour.

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The contributors to the live discussion were Celia Craig, Halida Dinova, Yekaterina Lebedeva, John Dante Prevedini (chairman) and Keith Bramich.

The discussion was planned to include many different aspects of the interaction between the visual and musical worlds, including music for ballet, opera, film, installations and other visual media, visual inspiration for music (such as Musorgsky's Pictures at an Exhibition), visual dimensionality and motion depicted in music, visual art inspired by music, photography of music and musicians, album covers, concert posters, music word search puzzles, synaesthesia - seeing music in colours - and augenmusik / eye music. The session was divided into three distinct sections:

  1. Music envisioned with visuals - music created with specific visual accompaniment in mind
  2. Music repurposed with visuals - visuals and music independently created and subsequently combined for novel purposes
  3. Inherently visual music - when the sonic structure of the music itself creates a visual experience

You're welcome to add your thoughts to the discussion, via our contact page. If you indicate that your message is for publication, we'll add it to this page.

These links below aim to complement the contents of the newsletter. You can use them to discover more about those taking part and some of the subjects, organisations and individuals mentioned.

ADELAIDE BOTANIC GARDEN (SOUTH AUSTRALIA BOTANIC GARDENS AND STATE HERBARIUM)

ALEXANDER SCRIABIN (CMD)

ANTONÍN DVOŘÁK (CMD)

ARTARIA'S BEGINNINGS - INTERVIEW WITH CREATIVE DIRECTOR CELIA CRAIG (YOUTUBE)

AUGENMUSIK OPERA 'MASCAGNI A CERIGNOLA' BY JOHN DANTE PREVEDINI AND RAFFAELE SORBO (YOUTUBE)

AUSTRALIA (CMD)

BÉLA BARTÓK (CMD)

CAMILLE SAINT-SAËNS (CMD)

CANADA (CMD)

CELIA CRAIG (OBOIST'S WEBSITE)

CELIA CRAIG (SPOTIFY)

CELIA CRAIG (INSTAGRAM)

CHAMBER MUSIC ADELAIDE (ORGANISATION WEBSITE)

CZECHIA (CMD)

DANCE (CMD)

DUKE ELLINGTON (THE DUKE ELLINGTON ORCHESTRA)

EDWARD ELGAR (CMD)

ENRIQUE GRANADOS (CMD)

EVELYN GLENNIE (PERCUSSIONIST'S WEBSITE)

EXPLORING THE LETTERS OF MIRIAM HYDE WITH CELIA CRAIG (NATIONAL LIBRARY OF AUSTRALIA)

FALLA: RITUAL FIRE DANCE - WITH FLAMENCO DANCER AND VISUAL BACKDROP (YOUTUBE)

FILM MUSIC (CMD)

FRANCE (CMD)

FRANZ LISZT (CMD)

FINLAND (CMD)

GERMANY (CMD)

GUSTAV HOLST (CMD)

GYÖRGY LIGETI (CMD)

HALIDA DINOVA (PIANIST'S WEBSITE)

HALIDA DINOVA (CMD)

HUNGARY (CMD)

IGOR STRAVINSKY (CMD)

JAPAN (CMD)

JAPAN KAPUSTIN ASSOCIATION (YOUTUBE)

JAZZ (CMD)

JEAN SIBELIUS (CMD)

JEANNE BAMBERGER (CMD)

JENNIFER PAULL (CMD)

JESÚS RUEDA (IBERMÚSICA ARTISTS)

JOHANNES BRAHMS (CMD)

JOHN DANTE PREVEDINI (COMPOSER'S WEBSITE)

JOHN DANTE PREVEDINI (CMD)

JUDITH WEIR TALKS TO ANGELA COLE AND CELIA CRAIG (YOUTUBE)

KAURNA PEOPLE (SOUTH AUSTRALIA HISTORY HUB)

KEITH BRAMICH (CMD)

LEONARD BERNSTEIN (CMD)

LUDWIG VAN BEETHOVEN (CMD)

MANUEL DE FALLA (CMD)

MARK ROTHKO WITH MORTON FELDMAN IN ROTHKO CHAPEL (YOUTUBE)

MIKIS THEODORAKIS (CMD)

MIRIAM HYDE (WIRRIPANG - HOME OF AUSTRALIAN COMPOSERS)

MODEST MUSORGSKY (CMD)

MONTRÉAL (CMD)

MUSIC FOR PERCUSSION (CMD)

NATASHA TUROVSKY (ARTIST'S WEBSITE)

NATASHA TUROVSKY - BALLET OF THE UNHATCHED CHICKS (YOUTUBE)

NIKOLAI KAPUSTIN (CMD)

NIKOLAI KAPUSTIN PERFORMING WITH OLEG LUNDSTREM (YOUTUBE)

NIKOLAI RIMSKY-KORSAKOV (CMD)

OLEG LUNDSTREM (WORLD OF JAZZ)

OLIVIER MESSIAEN (CMD)

ORCHESTRE NOUVELLE GÉNÉRATION, ARTISTIC DIRECTOR NATASHA TUROVSKY (ORCHESTRA'S WEBSITE)

PAUL SCHOENFIELD (MILKEN ARCHIVE OF JEWISH MUSIC)

PROKOFIEV: VISIONS FUGITIVES - CHOREOGRAPHED PAINTINGS (YOUTUBE)

RACHMANINOV: VOCALISE, PLAYED BY CELIA CRAIG AND KONSTANTIN SHAMRAY (YOUTUBE)

RALPH VAUGHAN WILLIAMS (CMD)

RUSSIA (CMD)

SCHOTT MUSIC GROUP (PUBLISHER'S WEBSITE)

SCRIABIN: VERS LA FLAMME, INCORPORATING VISUALS BASED ON THE COMPOSER'S COLOUR SCHEME (YOUTUBE)

SERGEI PROKOFIEV (CMD)

SPAIN (CMD)

STEPHEN MONTAGUE (COMPOSER'S WEBSITE)

STRAVINSKY: THE RITE OF SPRING (CMD)

STUART GREENBAUM: OBOE SONATA, DEDICATED TO CELIA CRAIG (YOUTUBE)

TARRAWATTA TRIO (CHAMBER MUSIC ADELAIDE)

THE BRITISH MUSEUM (ORGANISATION'S WEBSITE)

THE MYSTERY BEHIND SCRIABIN'S MYSTIC CHORD (KDFC)

UNITED KINGDOM (CMD)

UNITED STATES OF AMERICA (CMD)

UKRAINE (CMD)

YEKATERINA LEBEDEVA (PIANIST'S WEBSITE)

YULIYA ZAKHARAVA: GOLEM (EXTRACT) - ORCHESTRE NOUVELLE GÉNÉRATION (YOUTUBE)

 

Music and the Visual World. A discussion led by John Dante Prevedini at classicalmusicdaily.com

 

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Posted 1 January 2025 by John Dante Prevedini

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