Lunchtime Concerts 2010-2012

 

 

 

 

 

 

Cross-Disciplinary Interplay between the

Humanities, Technology and Musical Practice

 

 

 

 

   

 

 

 

LUNCHTIME CONCERTS DURING THE FALL SEMESTER 2012:

The Aesthetics of Music and Sound

FROKOSTKONCERT

WEDNESDAY, DECEMBER 12, 2012

Poster available for download here.

Program with notes available for download here.

SEMINAR

THURSDAY, DECEMBER 13, 2012

RESCHEDULED! PLEASE WATCH FOR THIS SEMINAR AS PART OF OUR SPRING SERIES.

‘Rhythmical Building Blocks’: Creating Creativity

Anne Helle Jespersen, Research Librarian in Music, Head of Music Section; Library of the University of Southern Denmark. MA in Ethnomusicology and Cultural Communication.

In 2011, Anne Helle Jespersen produced the set of teaching materials, Rhythmical Building Blocks – from J.S. Bach to James Brown together with co-author Marc Bernstein, saxophonist, composer and educator. The book includes a CD and it is aimed at music teaching in primary schools. It presents principles and tools, however, that can be used in a variety of music teaching situations and institutions.


In this seminar, Anne will present and discuss aspects of this project:

a) the main purpose of the book which is to stimulate children and young people through rhythmical music to be creative, artistic and intuitive

b) her role as a communicator and “cultural translator” of the work and teaching of an artist

c) the collaboration between artists, higher schools of music in Denmark i.e. music conservatories, and the public school system.

Rytmiske Byggesten. Fra J.S.Bach til James Brown
Book incl. cd (80 pages, 22 tracks)
ISBN: 978-87-7612-681-0

Poster for the seminar available here.

Schedule for series Topics in the Aesthetics of Music and Sound

Schedule for Lunchtime Concert Series

 

 

The Aesthetics of Music and Sound

 

LUNCHTIME CONCERT AND SEMINAR

THURSDAY, NOVEMBER 22, 2012

 

LUNCHTIME CONCERT

12:00 NOON-1:00 P.M.

THE CAMPUS SQUARE/CAMPUSTORVET

Campusvej 55, University of Southern Denmark, Odense

ADMISSION IS FREE.

 

Program available as PDF-file here:

Posters availabe as PDF-files here and here.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

A seminar in the series Topics in the Aesthetics of Music and Sound

follows the Lunchtime Concert on November 22, 3:15 -5:00 p.m. in U73:

 

Wittgenstein and Music Performance as Aesthetic Practice

with Tom Eide Osa, Associate Professor, University of Bergen, The Grieg Academy. (Via Skype.) Abstract here. Poster for the seminar available here.

 

Wittgenstein emphasizes that familiarity with a concept is to apply it correctly in action, knowledge is found in the correct use of the concept. Learning a concept is to obtain proper use within established conventions, to master the practice that is the concept’s grammar. To describe a concept is to clarify the usage rules in the current context.


In music performance different sets of ways of playing constitute communities of practice. Being able to play in specific ways in a specific musical context shows that the player has knowledge in his playing. He is conversant with the current aesthetic practice and demonstrates knowledge of and sensitivity to the rules that apply. He is able to apply performance practice conventions to repertoire, such as a specific style in American jazz, Western art music or Norwegian folk music.

I understand ways of playing and sets of such as concepts and areas of knowledge. Knowing and practicing ways of playing as concepts are the knowledge in the communities of practice. Music performance cultures can be identified as representatives of historically and geographically localized styles and genres, characterized and constituted by their distinctive ways of playing.


Music performance per se can, due to its primary identity as art, to a limited extent be scientifically articulated by words and numbers, or by sheet music. In musical performance there can still be talk of concepts and knowledge, which in practice are articulated nonverbally as sounding music. Such knowledge is to use ways of playing (concepts) correctly in the music performance.


A subject didactic approach to the concept of aesthetic practice, offering viewpoints on concept formation, appreciation, judgement and communication in art worlds, will contribute to the understanding of learning and knowledge in music performance.

 

All are welcome both to the seminar series Topics in the Aesthetics of Music and Sound and to the Lunchtime Concert Series.

 

Schedule for series Topics in the Aesthetics of Music and Sound

Schedule for Lunchtime Concert Series

The Aesthetics of Music and Sound

 

THURSDAY, NOVEMBER 1: LUNCHTIME CONCERT AND SEMINAR

Lunchtime Concert 12:00 noon -1 p.m. on Campustorvet - The Campus Square -

Campusvej 55, University of Southern Denmark, Odense

 

Concert program with program notes available as pdf-file HERE .

Poster for the concert available as pdf-file HERE.

 

 

 

Seminar 4:15-6 p.m. in U73

 

Composition as Inquiry

 

Matias Vestergård Hansen, currently studying piano with Amalie Malling at the Royal Danish Conservatory of Music.

 

For me, composing music has always been a byproduct of all my musical endeavors; and do I mean composition in the literal sense, that is, the joining together of disparate musical elements. Apart from film media, music is the only art form that evolves temporally, and is capable of doing so on many planes at once. This we call counterpoint, something that deeply interests me.
I have always been fascinated with the idea of the inherent possibilities of any given musical subject. Some subjects are constructed in such a way so as to be able to withstand the enormous strain of a very sophisticated compositional order; witness, for example Johann Sebastian Bach’s die Kunst der Fuge, eighteen canons and fugues all constructed from a deceptively simple theme in d-minor. In my seminar, I will expound on my way of working around a compositional process that is clearly indebted to Bach’s contrapuntal art. I will do this by drawing examples from the first movement of my Piano Quartet in D major, a work that has been long in the making. I will also share examples from the four earlier revisions to which I have subjected my work, explaining the thoughts that go behind the alterations, and demonstrating my passion for exploring what naturally arises from any given juxtaposition of a select group of musical elements and motifs; this, to me, constitutes an inquiry into the nature of the musical material at hand.

 

Poster for the seminar available HERE.

 

PLEASE NOTE THAT THE TIME OF THE SEMINAR HAS BEEN CHANGED TO 4:15 P.M. SO AS NOT TO COLLIDE WITH THE HANS CHRISTIAN ANDERSEN  ACADEMY ANNUAL LECTURE AT SDU AT 3:00 P.M.

 

Schedule for series Topics in the Aesthetics of Music and Sound

Schedule for Lunchtime Concert Series

 

 

 

 

 

All are welcome both to the seminar series Topics in the Aesthetics of Music and Sound and to the Lunchtime Concert Series.

 

The Aesthetics of Music and Sound

 

THURSDAY, OCTOBER 4: LUNCHTIME CONCERT AND SEMINAR

 

Lunchtime Concert 12:00 noon -1 p.m. on Campustorvet - The Campus Square -

Campusvej 55, University of Southern Denmark, Odense

We celebrate our 20th concert in the Lunchtime Concert Series by holding the concert on the Campus Square.

 

Concert program with program notes available as pdf-file HERE .

Poster for the concert available as pdf-file HERE.

 

 

Seminar 3:15-5 p.m. in U73

 

Improving Sight-Reading by Combining Ear, Eye and Instrument

 

Inge Bjarke, Lecturer in aural training at The Academy of Music and Dramatic Arts, Southern Denmark; Educated as a pianist, a piano teacher and a teacher in aural training. The author of three textbooks: Musikkens Grundbegreber (“The Fundamental Concepts of Music”) (MUFO 1991); Rytmer med Toner (“Rhythms with Tones”) (MUFO 1994); SNAPSHOT- An Introduction to Sight-Reading (MUFO 2009, English version 2011)

 

Sight-reading is an important part of professional musicianship, and to be able to imagine the sound in advance of playing is a necessity for good phrasing and intonation. The connection between sign and sound is trained in sight-singing as a part of aural skills, but to many students, this may be quite difficult, and not corresponding to their instrumental level. It seems as if there is a missing link in the way we learn music - compared to text reading, where the sign immediately gives an impression of the sound.

 

Learning the language of music mostly happens through playing an instrument, with quite much focus on the technical mastering of the instrument. In this process, the written notes might be seen merely as a sign of where to put the fingers on the instrument, rather than being perceived as symbols of sounds

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This one-way access to the music is not adequate for a professional musician, and to achieve an all-round mastering of the musical language, you have to work equally with reading, listening, playing and singing.

 

To help the student to develop all these skills, I have written the textbook SNAPSHOT – An Introduction to Sight-Reading, which consists of a large number of short exercises and examples from classical, tonal music.


My presentation will contain also a demonstration of how to work with exercises from SNAPSHOT, and musicians among the participants are invited to bring their instruments.

Poster for the seminar available HERE.

 

Schedule for series Topics in the Aesthetics of Music and Sound

Schedule for Lunchtime Concert Series

 

 

 

 

 

All are welcome both to the seminar series Topics in the Aesthetics of Music and Sound and to the Lunchtime Concert Series.

 

  The Aesthetics of Music and Sound

 

THURSDAY, SEPTEMBER 13: LUNCHTIME CONCERT AND SEMINAR

 

Lunchtime Concert 12:00 noon -1 p.m. in Cafeteria 4,

Campusvej 55, University of Southern Denmark, Odensen

 

Concert program with program notes available as pdf-file here.

Poster for the concert available as pdf-file here.

 

 

Seminar 3:15-5 p.m. in U73

 

The Search for Musical Perfection When Preparing a Piece for Recording – Beyond the Musical Score

 

Morten Heide,  Pianist and Choral Director, NNIMIPA delegate-at-large representing The Academy of Music and Dramatic Arts, Southern Denmark (AMDA), Odense, Denmark. http://mortenheide.dk/home

 

(Expanded version of a talk originally given at NNIMIPA Network Meeting, King's College, London, July 22, 2012: http://www.nnimipa.org/PROGRAM_LONDON_2012_A5.pdf)

 

After several years of performing Messiaen's music, I decided to record his vast piano cycle Vingt Regards sur l’Enfant-Jésus/ Twenty Gazes upon the Infant Jesus. 2010 was the year of preparation for this recording which I completed in the early summer of 2011. During the process of preparation, recording and finally the editing of many hours of recorded material, I found myself obliged to make many choices and to engage in much serious contemplation.

 

My goal with this short presentation is to shed some light on the process I (we) as (a) musician(s) go through when recording a piece of music - from the very first note played (when we perhaps hadn't even thought of recording the piece later on) until the final result. It's not so much the final result that is important in this lecture, but the process, since it's a process of trying to approach perfection. And my idea of the "perfect" Messiaen recording surely differs from that of other musicians or musicologists.
As with most other composers there's not just one "true" way of playing Messiaen's music, but several ways.  What then makes a recording "perfect" and might not this aim for perfection when recording Messiaen's music differ from when recording say music of Bach or Mozart? What is perfection in the context of recording ?To what degree is one as a musician obliged to stay true to the musical score and to what extent is one allowed certain freedoms? Does performance practice (tradition) apply to contemporary music like that of Messiaen? When editing, what makes one "take" better than another if both contain all the right notes?

 

Those were but some of the many questions and considerations that consciously and unconsciously went through my mind during these three steps (preparing, recording and editing) of completing the recording. A lot of this is very difficult to put into words since, as always with music, it's to a great extent a matter of feelings, sense and emotions, of culture and traditions/schools, etc. In other words please don't expect this presentation to provide any final answers regarding the search for perfection in recording, but rather to work towards providing an articulation of some of the relevant questions which should be asked.

 

Poster for the seminar available as pdf-file here.

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 Schedule for series Topics in the Aesthetics of Music and Sound

 Schedule for Lunchtime Concert Series

 

 

 

 

 

All are welcome both to the seminar series Topics in the Aesthetics of Music and Sound and to the Lunchtime Concert Series.

 

 

LUNCHTIME CONCERTS SPRING 2012

 

  The Aesthetics of Music and Sound

 

 Schedule for Lunchtime Concert Series

 Schedule for series Topics in the Aesthetics of Music and Sound

 

 

 

 

 

LUNCHTIME CONCERT & SEMINAR , MAY 3, 2012

 

LUNCHTIME CONCERT, May 3, 2012:

Poster available as pdf-file HERE.

Program with notes available as pdf-file HERE.

 

 

J.S. Bach:                                 fra Cellosuite nr. 5, c-mol

(1685-1750)                              I. Præludium

 

M. Vestergård Hansen:             Kvartet for violin, bratsch, cello og klaver

(1989-  )                                    I. Allegro comodo                   

                                                  II. Prologo – Passacaglia – Epilogo

 

J.S. Bach:                                 fra Cellosuite nr. 1, G-dur

(1685-1750)                              IV. Sarabande

                                                  fra Violinpartita nr. 2 d-mol

                                                  I. Allemande

 

E.W.Korngold:                          fra Suite für 2 Violinen, Violoncello und Klaver (linke Hand) 

(1897-1957)                              Op. 23

                                                  IV. Lied

                                                  V. Rondo – Finale (Variationen)

 

 

SEMINAR, May 3, 2012:

Poster available as pdf-file HERE.

  

Audience participation via

Skype is also most welcome.

Please get in touch with Cynthia M. Grund in advance of the meeting to make arrangements.

 

 

 

  The Aesthetics of Music and Sound

 

APRIL 12, 2012: LUNCHTIME CONCERT AND SEMINAR

 

 Schedule for Lunchtime Concert Series

 Schedule for series Topics in the Aesthetics of Music and Sound

 

 

 

 

 

LUNCHTIME CONCERT

APRIL 12, 2012:

Poster available as pdf-file HERE.

Program with notes available as pdf-file HERE.

 

 

Program:

C. Debussy (1862 – 1918)
    

Études (1915), Prèmier Livre (25 min)


Étude 1 pour les cinq doigts d'après Monsieur Czerny
Étude 2 pour les tierces
Étude 3 pour les quartes
Étude 4 pour les sixtes
Étude 5 pour les octaves
Étude 6 pour les huit doigts

 

F. Liszt (1811 – 1886)

 

From Années de Pèlerinage, Italie (20 min)

Aprés une lecture de Dante: Fantasia Quasi Sonata (1849) 

 

SEMINAR

April 12, 2012:

Poster available as pdf-file HERE.

  

Audience participation via

Skype is also most welcome.

Please get in touch with Cynthia M. Grund in advance of the meeting to make arrangements.

 

 

 

  The Aesthetics of Music and Sound

 

March 15, 2012: Lunchtime Concert and Seminar

 

 Schedule for Lunchtime Concert Series

 Schedule for series Topics in the Aesthetics of Music and Sound

 

 

 

 

 

LUNCHTIME CONCERT

March 15, 2012:

 

Poster available as pdf-file HERE.

Concert program available as pdf-file HERE.

  

 

SEMINAR

March 15, 2012:

Poster available as pdf-file HERE.

  

Audience participation via

Skype is also most welcome.

Please get in touch with Cynthia M. Grund in advance of the meeting to make arrangements.

 

  

  The Aesthetics of Music and Sound

 

February 16, 2012: Lunchtime Concert and Seminar

 

 Schedule for Lunchtime Concert Series

 Schedule for series Topics in the Aesthetics of Music and Sound

 

 

 

 

 

LUNCHTIME CONCERT

FEBRUARY 16, 2012:

Poster available as pdf-file HERE.

  

 

SEMINAR

FEBRUARY 16, 2012:

Poster available as pdf-file HERE.

  

Audience participation via

Skype is also most welcome.

Please get in touch with Cynthia M. Grund in advance of the meeting to make arrangements.

 

LUNCHTIME CONCERTS FALL 2011:

 

 

 

 

Plakat som pdf-fil her.

Programbladet som pdf-fil her.

 

PROGRAM

 

Peter Cornelius (1824-1874): Fra Weinachtlieder op 8.:                                                     Nikolaj Nottelmann, tenor, ogCynthia M. Grund, klaver

Nr. 2. Die Hirten. Nr. 3. Die Könige. Nr. 6. Christkind.

Selv om Cornelius skrev både operaer og messer, er hans mest berømte værk hans lille samling af julesange til egne tekster fra 1856. Sangene er skrevet i et farverigt romantisk tonesprog, hvor der både males med den helt brede pensel, når englesangen i himlen skal skildres, og med fine detaljerede strøg, når det gælder de søvnige hyrder på marken eller de undrende vismænd fra østen.   

 

Peter Warlock (1894-1930): Tre julesange:                                                                         Nikolaj Nottelmann, tenor, ogCynthia M. Grund, klaver

Bethlehem Down (Bruce Blunt)

Balulalow (Martin Luther, oversat af Brd. Wedderburn)

The First Mercy (Bruce Blunt)

“Peter Warlock” var et pseudonym for den engelske musikhistoriker Philip Heseltine. Skønt selvlært komponist skrev han en lang række meget raffinerede sange inden sin tidlige død. Warlocks julemusik er ukonventionel. Kun i ”The First Mercy” får vi den traditionelle vidneberetning fra stalden i Bethlehem, men set gennem øjnene på staldens frygtsomme smådyr: svalerne, musene og natsværmerne. De øvrige sange giver os et omsorgsfuldt blik på det skrøbelige barn i krybben, med fuld bevidsthed om hans senere lidelser på korset.

 

Gerald Finzi (1901-1956): Fra Dies Natalis op. 8:                                                               Nikolaj Nottelmann, tenor, og Cynthia M. Grund, klaver

Nr 5. The Salutation (Thomas Traherne).

Finzis store kantate for tenor og strygeorkester er sat til en tekst af den metafysiske 1600-tals digter Thomas Traherne, der skildrer en evig sjæls fødsel ind i en spæd menneskekrop. Både pga. sit tema og sit strømmende lyriske udtryk er denne musik gået ind i julerepertoiret, selv om den oprindelige tekst ikke specifikt omtaler Jesu fødsel. Den afsluttende arie udtrykker en ydmyg jubel over sanseverdenens rigdom og til slut en eftertænksom undren over fødselens mirakel.

 

Gustaf Nordquist (1886-1949): Jul, jul, strålande jul (Edvard Evers).                                 Nikolaj Nottelmann, tenor, ogCynthia M. Grund, klaver

En kendt og elsket svensk julesang fra det 20. århundrede.

 

Kvasi-klassisk juleklaver:                                                                                                                                                       Cynthia M. Grund, klaver

O Come, O Come, Emanuel

Coventry Carol

O Holy Night

Arrangementerne af de tre stykker er inspireret af Bach, Beethoven og Liszt. Det første har et akkompagnement afledt fra Præludium nr. 2 fra  Bachs Das Wohltemperierte KlaverI, mens det andet,  en engelsk melodi fra 1591, er gengivet i en stil, der er hentet fra den første sats af Beethovens Måneskinssonate. De er  arrangeret af John W. Schaum, en legendarisk amerikansk klaverpædagog. Den sidste, Cantique de Noël af Adolphe Adam (1803-1856), er arrangeret af J.Ch. Hess i en stil, som fører tankerne til Franz Liszts arrangementer for klaver; et godt eksempel på den type rigt udstafferet musik, der udgjorde almindelig ”home entertainment” i klaverets guldalder.

 

Musik til refleksion under julen:                                                                                                                                       Cynthia M. Grund, klaver

Deck the Halls 

Christmas Time is Here                                                                                                                                                                             

Julen er ikke blot dansen omkring træet, fest og kommercialisme: måske ville det fortravlede postmoderne menneske have godt af at stoppe op og bruge en del af juleferien til at reflektere lidt over livets gang og livets mening (okay, okay vi er jo  begge  filosoffer, der musicerer her i dag . . . ). Skulle man få lyst til en sådan lejlighed til fredfuld eftertanke, kan de to stykker, der udgør denne julesuite, anbefales som baggrundsmusik:  En melankolsk version af den traditionelle engelske carol ”Deck the Halls” arrangeret af David Leonhardt  og ”Christmas Time is Here” af Vince Guaraldi (1928-1976) fra fjernssynsprogrammet  A Charlie Brown Christmas (1965), som er blevet en fast amerikansk juletradition.

 

Hvid jul:                                                                                                                                                                                   Cynthia M. Grund, klaver

Let It Snow, Let It Snow, Let It Snow

Snowfall

Statistikken taler imod, at vi får en landsdækkende hvid jul i år. Herinde, i Kantine 4, sner det dog i dag på bedste julemanér, mens vi lytter til ”Let It Snow, Let It Snow, Let It Snow” (1945)  af Jule Styne og Sammy Cahn i et arrangement af Marcus Roberts transskriberet af Becca Pullam fulgt af jazzstandarden ”Snowfall” (1941) af Ruth og Claude Thornhill.

 

Tre Disney-Klassikere:                                                                                                        Nikolaj Nottelmann, tenor, ogCynthia M. Grund, klaver 

Sammy Fain: Den lille stjerne 

Sonny Burke: Bella Notte

Leigh Harline: Når du ser et stjerneskud

30’erne, 40’erne og 50’erne var Disney-studiernes guldalder. De tegnede versioner af Collodis Pinocchio, Barries Peter Pan og den arketypiske fortælling om den charmerende og ædle proletar, der ender med prinsessen og det halve hundehus, havde en enestående sødme og gik rent ind hos det brede publikum. Kraftigt medvirkende til succesen var filmenes smægtende sange; på en gang i dyb gæld til den europæiske operette og inderligt amerikanske. De tre evergreens på dette program er uløseligt forbundet med julen gennem Disneys årligt tilbagevendende kavalkade.

 

 

 

 

Poster available as pdf-fileHERE.

Program availableHERE.

 

 

 

 

 The Aesthetics of Music and Sound

LUNCHTIME CONCERT AND SEMINAR, NOVEMBER 10, 2011

 

Continually updated schedule for the musical performances in the

Lunchtime Concert Series HERE.

Complete schedule for the seminar series

Topics in the Aesthetics of Music and Sound HERE.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 Morten Heide, Piano

 

LUNCHTIME CONCERT:

NOVEMBER 10, 2011

12 noon -1 p.m.

CAFETERIA 4 

UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHERN DENMARK

CAMPUSVEJ 55, 5230 ODENSE

 

 Program:

Fugle og vand (Birds and Water)

 

Louis-Claude Daquin (1694-1772)

  Le Coucou - Gøgen (1735)

Maurice Ravel (1875-1937)

  Jeux d'eau - Vandlege (1901)

Jean-Philippe Rameau (1683-1764)

  La Rappel des Oiseaux - Fuglekald (1724) 

Robert Schumann (1810-1856) 

  Vogel als Prophet - Profetfuglen

Peter Tjajkovskij (1840-1893)

  Marts - Lærken - fra "Årstider" opus 37b (1875)

Edvard Grieg (1843-1907)

  To lyriske stykker:

Lille fugl, opus 43, nr. 4

Bækken, opus 62, nr. 4

Franz Liszt (1811-1886)

  "To Legender":

Saint François d'Assise: la prédication aux oiseaux

Saint François de Paule marchant sur les flots

Claude Debussy (1863-1918)

  Fra "Images" - "Billeder" (1905-07):

Reflets dans l'eau - Reflekser i vandet

Camille Saint-Saëns (1835-1921)

  Svanen fra "Dyrenes Karneval" (1886) omskrevet frit for klaver

  af Leopold Godowsky (1897)

 

Program sheet as pdf-file available  here.

Poster for the concert available  here.

 

ALL ARE WELCOME!

 

 

SEMINAR: NOVEMBER 10, 2011

2:15-4 p.m. ROOM U73

UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHERN DENMARK

CAMPUSVEJ 55, 5230 ODENSE

 

The Cognitive Semantics

of Musical Tension
with
Jens Hjortkjær

PhD, Research Assistant, Department of Arts and 
Cultural Studies, University of Copenhagen


 

Abstract: Our mental ability to connect musical events over time is often described in terms of tension-release patterns. But why do we experience music in that way? Why do musical grammars emerge with the phenomenal quality of tension? I have recently advanced a semantic account of musical tension, arguing that tension patterns in music rely on mental schemas related to interacting forces (as initially discussed by linguist Leonard Talmy).


In this presentation, I will present a listening study demonstrating different force semantic patterns in listeners' real-time response to music. I will also discuss the origins of these dynamic schemas in the earliest sound communication between human infants and their mothers. This generic human musicality - I will argue - is essential in understanding how meaningful behavior emerges in human life.

 

Poster for the seminar available here.

 

ALL ARE WELCOME!

 

 

September 26, 2011: A TV-documentary in English about a Lunchtime Concert with pianist Gustav Krogh Hansen Piekut earlier this year (please see below) at The University of Southern Denmark, SDU, at Odense airs throughout the week of September 26 - October 2, 2011 on ALT, Aabenraa Lokal TV on the TV Sønderjylland (TV-SDJ) network. The program will be permanently available HERE and during the broadcast week also HERE.  In addition to concert clips, the program features interviews in which Gustav Krogh Hansen Piekut, Assoc. Prof. Cynthia M. Grund and Søren R. Frimodt-Møller, PhD participate.

 

 

The Aesthetics of Music and Sound

LUNCHTIME CONCERT AND SEMINAR, SEPTEMBER 8, 2011

 

(For continually updated information on the Lunchtime Concert Series, please see here

and for a complete, continually updated schedule for the seminar series

Topics in the Aesthetics of Music and Sound, please see here.)

 

Concert: Thursday,  

September 8, 2011, 

12  noon - 1 p.m.  in Cafeteria 4, 

University of Southern Denmark, Campusvej 55, 5230 Odense M

 


 

Tango quintet RABO DEL GATO plays a program of Astor Piazzolla's tango compositions.

 

Concert poster availablehere.

 

The concert will be filmed for television broadcast and is followed by a seminar in the series Topics in the Aesthetics of Music and Sound entitled: Lyric and Meaning in Tango’s Poetry
with Claudio Cifuentes-Aldunate, Associate Professor of Spanish at The University of Southern Denmark.
 
 

The seminar will take place on Thursday, September 8  2:15 p.m.-4:00 p.m. in U73,

University of Southern Denmark, Campusvej 55, 5230 Odense M

 

 

 

 

 

Claudio Cifuentes-Aldunate writes:

More than just a dance, tango is a cultural phenomenon of great complexity, as it comprehends poetry, music and dance all in one. Of the three manifestations of tango, its poetry is of special interest.

 

The present talk will focus on the significance of poetry in tango. Special attention will be given to some of the particular “semas” that concentrate around the isotopy of melancholy.

 

The result of this combination (dance, music and poetry) constructs the paradox which rests in “dancing the sadness” of life.

 

Key words: Dance, rhythm, poetry, classic and modern tango, aspects of the evolution of tango.

 

All are welcome!

(Although the seminars in the series Topics in the Aesthetics

of Music and Sound customarily are held in English, today's seminar will be held in Danish.)

 

 


 

 

Additional information about additional lunchtime concerts during the academic year 2011-2012 will

appear here as details become available.

 

Preview of coming attractions:

 

Pianist and Professor William Westney will be returning to Denmark for a while in November 2011 and will be giving a lunchtime concert at SDU on Thursday, November 24.

 

 

 

PREVIOUS LUNCHTIME CONCERTS:

 

 

 

Thursday,  April 28, 2011, 12  noon - 1 p.m.  in Cafeteria 4, University of Southern Denmark, Campusvej 55, 5230 Odense M

 

Jan  Beck Eriksson Offers a Musical Buffet at the Piano: Featuring Works by Mozart, Beethoven, Schumann, Chopin, Mendelssohn, Liszt, Sinding, Grieg and Gershwin. 

   

Thursday, April 28, 2011 is the final Lunchtime Concert for the spring term and the tenth in the series since its premiere on April 29, 2010. We celebrate this anniversary with a Lunchtime Concert featuring Jan Beck Eriksson, prize-winning pianist (graduate of The Royal Danish Academy of Music). In true Lunchtime Concert tradition, Jan will offer a musical buffet of some of the best-loved music composed for the piano by Mozart, Beethoven, Schumann, Chopin, Mendelssohn, Liszt, Sinding, Grieg and Gershwin.
 
From 1989 to the present day Jan Beck Eriksson has been affiliated with the piano merchandising firm Juhl-Sørensen A/S (
http://www.piano.dk) and is currently head of sales in the Copenhagen division. Through his work with Juhl-Sørensen A/S, which represents the piano manufacturer Steinway & Sons in Denmark and Sweden, Jan has become a well-known figure within the Nordic music milieu and is a regarded as specialist with respect to all aspects of the piano. 

 

For concert poster, please seehere. For the double-sided program sheet for the concert and the seminar (see below) please see here.
 
Jan was a key figure in the choice of the superb Steinway grand which has made the Lunchtime Concert series here at SDU possible. After the Lunchtime Concert, Jan will be the speaker at the final seminar for the spring term in the series Topics in the Aesthetics of Music and Sound (
http://www.soundmusicresearch.org/seminarsspring2011.html). The seminar will commence at 14:15 in U70 on April 28, 2011. Since the seminar deals with the cultural, aesthetic and historical significance of the piano, Jan will also present a detailed examination of the Steinway grand, which will be left standing in Cafeteria 4 for a while after the concert for this purpose.


 

 

Thursday, April 14, 2011, 12 noon - 1 p.m. in Cafeteria 4,  University of Southern Denmark, Campusvej 55, 5230 Odense M

 

Janus Araghipour and friends play a program of classical music in celebration of Musikkens Dag (Music Day),http://musikkensdag.dk.

 

See here for concert poster and here for concert program sheet

 

 

 

 

Thursday,  March 31, 2011, 12  noon - 1 p.m.  in Cafeteria 4, University of Southern Denmark, Campusvej 55, 5230 Odense M

 

Tango quintet Rabo del Gato http://www.rabodelgato.dk/(PLEASE NOTE THAT THE DATE FOR RABO DEL GATO AND THE SEMINAR FOLLOWING THE CONCERT HAS BEEN CHANGED TO THURSDAY, SEPTEMBER 8, 2011.After the concert, Claudio Cifuentes Aldunate, Associate Professor of Spanish, SDU will give a talk on the cultural significance of the tango.)

 

 

 

Thursday, March 17, 2011, 12  noon - 1 p.m.  in Cafeteria 4, University of Southern Denmark, Campusvej 55, 5230 Odense M

 

Northphone Sax Quartet. Style: jazz/dinner with classical elements.

 

For the program for the lunchtime concert - as well as for the seminar "Soul from Plato to Motown" with Joel Rudinow, Santa Rosa Junior College, California, USA via Skype, author of

Soul Music: Tracking the Spiritual Roots of Pop from Plato to Motown, published by the University of Michigan Press - please see here. The poster pictured above is available here

 

 

 

 

Thursday,  February 10, 2011, 12  noon - 1 p.m.  in Cafeteria 4, University of Southern Denmark, Campusvej 55, 5230 Odense M

 

Gustav Piekut, solo classical piano. Gustav shared second place in the final round of the classical music competition "Spil for Livet" conducted by the Danish Broadcasting Corporation (DR) in 2009 and performed on national television.  http://www.dr.dk/DR2/Spilforlivet/Deltagerne/2009/gustav.htm 

 

 

February 6, 2011 Update: Program for Lunchtime Concert February 10, 2011 available here; poster availablehere.

     The seminar which kicks off the series Topics in the Aesthetics of Music and Sound is entitled ”Aspects of the Philosophy of Musical Performance” and will take place after the lunchtime concert on February 10 14:15-16:00 in U70. The seminar will feature a panel discussion with Gustav Piekut, William Westney (HCA Academy Guest Professorial Fellow SDU 2009-10, pianist – via Skype from Texas); Søren R. Frimodt-Møller (filosofi PhD SDU 2010) and Cynthia M. Grund. Please seehttp://www.soundmusicresearch.org/seminarsspring2011.html for more information. All are welcome!

 

 

 

Thursday,  December 9, 2010, 12  noon - 1 p.m.  in Cafeteria 4, University of Southern Denmark, Campusvej 55, 5230 Odense M

 

 

 

NU ER DET JUL

Frokostkoncert i Kantine 4, Syddansk Universitet i Odense

Kl. 12:00-13:00 torsdag den 9. december

Cynthia M. Grund, klaver  Nikolaj Nottelmann, sang og klaver  Søren R. Frimodt-Møller, violin

PROGRAM

Gabriel Fauré (1845-1924): ”Après un rêve”(1877)       Søren R. Frimodt-Møller, violin, og Cynthia M. Grund, klaver

Gabriel Fauré (1845-1924): ”Sicilienne”(1898)              Søren R. Frimodt-Møller, violin, og Cynthia M. Grund, klaver

J.S. Bach (1685-1750): “Ich steh an deiner Krippen hier".   Nikolaj Nottelmann, tenor, og Cynthia M. Grund,  klaver

Peter I. Tjajkovskij (1840-1893):  ”Bolchefeens dans” fra

  Nøddeknækkeren (1892)                                            Nikolaj Nottelmann og Cynthia M. Grund, firhændig klaver

 

Leroy Anderson (1908-1975): ”Sleigh Ride”(1946)             Søren R. Frimodt-Møller, violin; Cynthia M. Grund, klaver

                                                                                                                        Nikolaj Nottelmann, håndbjælde

 

Musik til refleksion under julen:

Suite med tre melodier af Guaraldi, Nordqvist og Holst   Søren R. Frimodt-Møller, violin og Cynthia M. Grund, klaver

 

Vince Guaraldi (1928-1976):  . . . og lidt julejazz fra A Charlie Brown Christmas (1965)      Cynthia M. Grund, klaver

Peter Cornelius (1824-1874):  “The Three Kings             Nikolaj Nottelmann, tenor, Søren R. Frimodt-Møller, violin,

                                                                                                                              og Cynthia M. Grund, klaver

Adolphe Adam (1803-1856):  ”Cantique de Noël”             Nikolaj Nottelmann, tenor, Søren R. Frimodt-Møller, violin,

                                                                                                                              og Cynthia M. Grund, klaver

 

For program with notes (in Danish), cllick HERE. For poster, click HERE.  

 

 

Thursday,  November 11, 2010, 12  noon - 1 p.m.  in Cafeteria 4, University of Southern Denmark, Campusvej 55, 5230 Odense M

 

 

 

Janus Araghipour, solo piano. 

 

Bach: Chromatic Fantasy and Fugue in D-minor

Chopin: Etude op 10 nr. 1

Chopin: Nocturne op 48, nr. 1

Beethoven: Sonata nr. 32 op. 111, 1st movement

Scriabin: Vers la Flamme op. 72

Bartok: 15 Hungarian Peasant Songs

 

This lunchtime concert is the fisrt event in the Theme Day: Music for the People! on November 11. SeeHEREDownload posterHERE.

 

The TV-documentary "Musik for folket!" (in Danish) was filmed during the November 11, 2010 lunchtime concert, and through a series of interviews with Carsten Sjødahl, Jane Bonne, Leif Jensen, Søren R. Frimodt-Møller, Janus Høgfeldt Araghipour and Cynthia M. Grund, it recounts the story behind the lunchtime concert series at SDU. The program aired November 22-29, 2010 on ALTV and is permanently available from November 22 onwards HERE.

 

 

Thursday, October 21, 2010, 12  noon - 1 p.m.  in Cafeteria 4, University of Southern Denmark, Campusvej 55, 5230 Odense M. Michelle Jørgensen, sopran og Janus Araghipour, piano.

For program, click HERE. For poster, click HERE.

 

 

 

Thursday, September 23, 2010, 12  noon - 1 p.m.  in Cafeteria 4, University of Southern Denmark, Campusvej 55, 5230 Odense M, Morten Heide, solo piano. For program with notes (in Danish), cllick HERE. For poster, click HERE. For more information about Morten Heide, please see www.mortenheide.dk.

 

 

 

 

May 13, 2010: Lunchtime Concert on Monday, May 17, 2010 at 12:00 noon with William Westney at The University of Southern Denmark, Odense, Cafeteria 4. Click on picture for poster; program available HERE.

 

 

 

 

 

 

April 27, 2010: Lunchtime concert, "Flyglet Danser!/The Piano Dances!" with Janus Araghipour takes place at SDU-Odense 11:30-12:30 on Thursday, April 29, 2010:

 

 

FLYGLET DANSER!

(The Piano Dances)

 

Lunchtime Concert, 

Cafeteria 4

The University of

Southern Denmark at Odense

Thursday, April 29.

11:30-12:30.

 

As a celebration of 

Days of Dance 2010

 

JANUS ARAGHIPOUR

Conservatory Student,

Academy of Music and Dramatic Arts/

Syddansk Musikkonservatorium &

Skuespillerskole (SMKS), Odense

performs a program of

classical and modern music inspired

by dance styles throughout the years.

 

See poster here.

See program here.

 Arranged by: THE PERSONNEL OF CAFETERIA 4 & 

 

 

 

Department for the
Study of Culture

 

 

 

Research Director for 

The Performances of

Everyday Living

Coordinator for

The Aesthetics of

Music and Sound

and

Editor and Webmaster for

www.soundmusicresearch.org:

Cynthia M. Grund

cmgrund@sdu.dk

 

 

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