Presenter：Stacey Rodda 盧廸思
MAY 2025 FOCUS: FRANCE
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…connecting music to visual arts, literature, film and theatre while discovering the delights of these arts in different parts of the world
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FOCUS: FRANCE
The Culture Show with Mr. Benjamin Cabouat, Consul for Culture, Education and Science in HK and Macao
The Culture Show with Mr. Benjamin Cabouat, Consul for Culture, Education and Science in HK and Macao
The Culture Show with Mr. Benjamin Cabouat, Consul for Culture, Education and Science in HK and Macao
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The Culture Show with Mr. Timo Kantola, Consul General of Finland in Hong Kong
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The Culture Show wirh Ms.Klára Jurčová, Consul General of the Czech Republic in Hong Kong
REMBRANDT, DALI, AND THE HARP
We continue our look at visual art depicting the harp through the ages from Rembrandt to Dali. We begin with Rembrandt’s Saul and David (1655).
Rembrandt, arguably the greatest master of rendering the human soul in painting, filtered out of the twenty-five-hundred-year-old story what he had to say to his own 17th century Holland. One of his great masterpieces, it exquisitely depicts the pain, suffering and anguish of the old king which David is trying to sooth with his harp playing.
We then enter the 20th century and continue our exploration of visual art featuring the harp with a stretch - something he continually did in his paintings - with Meditation on the Harp created by the renowned Surrealist artist Salvador Dali.
Dali often proclaimed music as being far inferior to painting as an art form, yet he depicted violins, cellos, guitars, pianos and other instruments in his works. Dalí himself had a complex relationship with music, publicly disparaging it, while apparently privately enjoying it.
Music by Handel and Satie complete the programme.
Presenter：Stacey Rodda 盧廸思
As we continue making connections between visual art and music, this week we revisit Picasso. In this episode we look at his work for Diaghilev’s Ballet Russes for Le Train Bleu (1924). His drop curtain for the production measuring approximately 10 x 11 metres is Picasso’s largest creation, or is it? We will explore that, the sets by Henri Laurens, and the ballet in-depth. We will also hear the music Mihaud composed for the ballet in its entirety.
