Pre-Concert Talk given by Philip Bullock: Friendship and Rivalry
16 October 2022
Levine Building, Trinity College, 11 - 11.30am
Tickets £5 - £15: Book tickets here.
Philip Ross Bullock, a renowned scholar on Russian literature and music and Fellow in Russian at Wadham College, Oxford, introduces today's concert with Claire Booth and Christopher Glynn (details here). He discusses the close friendship between Mussorgsky and Rimsky-Korsakov, as well as the professional rivalry between these two titans of Russian music. An invaluable and insightful introduction to the concert that follows.
Performers:
Philip Ross Bullock (Speaker)
For full details please visit the festival website
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This event is part of the 21st Oxford Lieder Festival, Friendship in Song: An Intimate Art. The series invites audiences to explore song as an art form that grew up among friends, often at special and sociable gatherings, and inspired many composers’ most personal and profound works. For more details and to view the full programme of events in the series please visit the Festival website.
