Our online listening club will be held from 7-8pm on the last Friday of each month and is a chance to come together regularly to listen to new music and find out more about today's composers.
We will invite a variety of different guest hosts who will explore the music of a different contemporary composer each time. You'll be invited to spend some time listening to one of the composer's works before we meet, but there will also be an opportunity to listen to the work during the session if you don't get around to it beforehand.
Like a book club but with less homework!
For this week's listening club we'll be exploring Christopher Fox's The Wedding at Cana.
Christopher's note on the piece:
For a long time I wanted to write a string quartet based on dance music; the minuet was an essential part of Haydn’s conception of the string quartet but more recently there have been relatively few attempts to update this aspect of the form. It also occurred to me that for many people today the string quartet is an ensemble only encountered at weddings. These ideas came together when I saw a painting called ‘The Marriage at Cana’, by a painter known only as ‘The Master of the Spanish Kings’, in the National Museum of Art in Washington in August 2012. The painting nests different spaces, visual scales and styles of representation inside one another and in The Wedding at Cana (after the Master of the Spanish Kings) I have taken a handful of the most popular tunes played at weddings these days and subjected them to a similar treatment. Each tune has a different underlying metre and a different mode and they are overlaid and juxtaposed with one another; the experience might be a bit like walking from room to room at a party where each room has its own music.
The Wedding at Cana (after the Master of the Spanish Kings) was commissioned by the soundfestival and premiered by the Edinburgh Quartet in King’s College Chapel, Aberdeen University on 26th October 2013.
Please register in advance by clicking BOOK on the right hand side. After registering you will receive a confirmation email containing information about joining the session.
You can join the session on Zoom via an internet browser on your computer or mobile device or you can phone in on either a mobile or landline to listen using the Dial by your location number.
If you have any queries please email info@sound-scotland.co.uk.
