主持人：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
The Culture Show with Mr. Timo Kantola, Consul General of Finland in Hong Kong
The Culture Show with Ms. Alice Fratarcangeli, Director of the Italian Cultural Institute in Hong Kong and Macau
The Culture Show wirh Ms.Klára Jurčová, Consul General of the Czech Republic in Hong Kong
ROSSETTI, LEIGHTON AND THE HARP
The visual arts have been influenced by music and musical instruments for as long as we can imagine. In this programme, we look at the unique aesthetic beauty of the harp featured in ever so many paintings.
La Ghirlandata (1873) by Dante Gabriel Rossetti is incredibly beautiful. In it, he uses deep, rich greens and golds for the woman’s robe and the lush foliage that surrounds her. Rossetti’s subject looks directly at the viewer while playing a gilded harp. Musical instruments figure prominently in Rossetti’s work. His Morning Music captures an intimate domestic scene complete with a musician playing a type of lute.
Edmund Blair Leighton’s The End of The Song (c. 1902) depicts one of the world’s greatest legends - the tragic tale of the forbidden but undying love between the Cornish knight Tristan and the Irish princess Isolde. In this painting, Tristan, a gifted harpist, has just serenaded his beloved Isolde with a song of love.
You can imagine the music to come…
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.
主持人：Stacey Rodda 盧廸思
For more than a century, visual artists have been inspired to expand their artistic practices by engaging in compelling collaborations with the ballet, theater, and opera. The Culture Show has been honing in on many of them in the past months - in particular, productions of the Ballets Russes under the direction of Diaghilev in the early part of the 20th century. On this programme we revisit Chagall, but the company has changed.
