Goya and Spanish Musics Symposium and Concert

Date: Sunday 23 August 2015
Time: Symposium 9.30am, Concert 3pm
Venue: Melbourne Conservatorium of Music (The University of Melbourne)
National Gallery of Victoria
Further information: Dr Liz Kertesz

Admission is free and all are welcome.

Goya and Spanish Musics is curated by Michael Christoforidis and hosted by the Melbourne Conservatorium of Music, in partnership with the National Gallery of Victoria and the Australian Research Council Centre of Excellence for the History of Emotions.

Francisco de Goya was one of the key artists in the transition from the Enlightenment to Romanticism, and his art has been a touchstone for Spanish identity, drawn on repeatedly in music and music theatre.

The symposium, featuring scholars from Spain and Australasia, will explore music in the time of Goya, and examine the artist’s impact on the sensibility and imagery of Spanish musics and musical theatre. A session is devoted to the influence of Goya on the output of Enrique Granados, in celebration of the centenary of his Goyescas, followed by a series of papers on Goyesque elements in theatrical and cinematic works of the 1920s and 1930s.

The program concludes with a recital of chamber music from the time of Goya, performed by staff and students of the Melbourne Conservatorium of Music, in the 17th-18th Century European Paintings Gallery (Level 2, NGV International).

To download the full program, please visit: http://www.historyofemotions.org.au/events/goya-and-spanish-musics.aspx