LTCL Music Composition Special Program-I

LTCL Music Composition Special Program
Six Lecture-talks of Contemporary Music:
Philosophy, Aesthetics, and Meaning of Contemporary Music

While Stravinsky gave seven talks to the students of Harvest University, Leung Sir also give a series of lecture-talk for the coming two months. The topics will include six contemporary composers and their seminal works. By considering their creative techniques, as well as the underlying ideas and concepts, together with the socio-cultural contexts that may influence their works, these six talks will attempt to posit an analytical-explication of such works. This lecture-talk will not only help the compositional students to plan and organize their compositions, but also enhance a better way of understanding of contemporary works, which is important for the musicians and music lovers.

 

The lecture-talk details are as follows:

Lesson 1 Dec 15	Tam Dun’s Imagined Chinese Tradition.	Ten Colors for String Quartet
Lesson 2 Dec 29	The Contemporary Wenren Aesthetics in HK Compositions.	Quotations/Allusions in the works of Law Wing Fai and Chan Hing Yan
Lesson 3 Jan 12	Listening to the Nature: Confronting the Sound, or the Silence?	Toru Takemitsu’s 12 Works of “Nature”
Lesson 4 Jan 19	John Corigliano’s and Tung Lai Shing’s Time Travels	Corigliano’s Symphony no. 1 and Tung’s The Book of Laugher and Forgetting
Lesson 5 Jan 26	George Crumb’s and Charles Ives’s Childhood Memories	Ives: The Things My Father Love and Crumb’s Night’s Spell
Lesson 6 Feb 2	What is Bright Sheng’s Hun – Bartokean Bitterness of Cultural Revolution	Symphony work: Hun’