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SUMMARY:Roundtable by the 92nd Street Y: A Celebration of French Music: From Berlioz to Debussy and Ravel\, Lecture 2 - Excess\, Outrage & Virtuosity
DESCRIPTION:https://www.roundtable.org/live-courses/music/a-celebration-of-french-music-beauty-revolution-reinvention​\n			\n				\n				\n				\n				\n				\n\n\n\n\nIn the 1800s\, it seemed that the horrors of the French Revolution had unleashed a taste for massive scale and spectacle. The startling musical program of Hector Berlioz’s brilliant Symphonie Fantastique combines sexuality\, drugs\, and diabolism. The melodramatic grand opera Les Huguenots by Giacomo Meyerbeer involved much death and destruction\, plus perilous stage machinery. Meanwhile Georges Bizet’s Carmen was very different\, featuring a revolutionary heroine who defies the social hypocrisies of the time. We also enjoy dazzling piano music by Camille Saint-Saëns and Charles Valentin Alkan. \n\n\n\n\n\n——————————————————————————————————————————————— \nFrance is an immeasurable powerhouse of cultural achievement. Through French politics and history\, philosophy\, fine arts\, and cuisine\, our lives continue to be influenced by the Gallic vision of society. And in many ways\, the history of French music is also the history of Western music. But what makes French music French? Join talented speaker and pianist Rachel Franklin on a journey through eight centuries of French music. \nFranklin will lead students from the mysterious polyphony of medieval Notre-Dame to the revolutionary sounds of twentieth-century modernism. Together\, we will explore the grandeur and elegance of the Baroque through the music of Lully\, Rameau\, and Couperin\, then encounter the excess\, spectacle\, and virtuosity of nineteenth-century France in works by Berlioz\, Meyerbeer\, Bizet\, Saint-Saëns\, and Alkan. Students will follow the musical lineage from Saint-Saëns to Fauré and from Fauré to Ravel\, discovering how generations of composers passed ideas\, influences\, and inspirations from one to another. From there\, we will experience the sensuous refinement of Fauré\, Debussy\, and Ravel before witnessing modernism shatter established conventions through the irreverent music of Satie and Les Six. Finally\, we will conclude with Olivier Messiaen\, whose visionary music and profoundly moving Quartet for the End of Time occupy a singular place in twentieth-century musical history. Along the way\, discover how French composers continually reinvented beauty\, drama\, color\, and musical expression. \n 
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