Oxford Lieder Festival 2020: Connections Across Time
Primary Investigator:
Professor of Russian Literature and Music
About the project:
Oxford Lieder was one of the world’s leading promoters of classical song, with an international reputation for providing excellent concerts and enlightening study events featuring world-leading artists and academic specialists. The centre of its annual programme was the Oxford Lieder Festival, which was live-streamed via its website that year, with concerts and study events filmed within the University.
A series of thought-provoking study events in partnership with the Ashmolean Museum, Voltaire Foundation, Botanic Garden, Harcourt Arboretum, Museum of Natural History and the Bodleian Libraries, The Queen’s College, Wadham College, and Worcester College formed the backbone of that year’s Festival, Connections Across Time: A Brief History of Song. Each event featured talks by leading academics from Oxford University, jointly invited and curated by Philip Ross Bullock and Sholto Kynoch, to showcase Oxford’s unique research, collections and architecture, with musical illustrations from Oxford Lieder’s roster of exceptional Young Artists. This combination of talks and music, presented through live and pre-recorded videos, provided fascinating new insights into the topics explored for wide and diverse audiences.
Classical song appealed to enthusiasts around the world. Oxford Lieder attracted an annual attendance of over 13,000 but was also at the forefront of developing new audiences. Live-streaming enabled the organisation to reach a huge international audience. Through these study events, Oxford Lieder, Oxford’s researchers and their partners in the galleries, libraries and museums illuminated classical song, poetry, and the interaction between music, literature, and wider culture and history for this audience, showcasing and promoting the Humanities at Oxford and the University’s pioneering research by leading humanities academics.
Events recordings:
https://www.youtube.com/embed/5xDVYDp3cKs?list=PLwZCPz8a4GM8gz2LZlIZ98R5McOFVjWSd
Oxford Lieder Festival 2020 | Mendelssohn and the Jewish Enlightenment; Magnus Walker
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