While modern music has rightly been considered in many ways as breaking away from the musical past, it certainly has not fully escaped the influence of what has come before.
Juxtaposing three modern works for violin-viola duo by composers Quincy Porter, Augusta Read Thomas and Darius Milhaud against Mozart’s Duo in G major, K.423. Silent Moon explores the subtle stylistic relationships between composers who worked (or are working) more than a century apart. The evening will also feature poetry readings that are curated by local writers Audrey Tan and Julius Li, which trace analogous stylistic relationships in the literary arts.
Through interplay of the selected poems’ rhythm, form and content alongside the pieces of the concert programme, the performance invites the audience to consider to what extent music may be considered in parallel to speech, recapturing an 18th-century European aesthetic that was widely understood in Mozart’s day and bringing it into contact with the present.
VENUE: The Arts House (Chamber)
ADDRESS: 1 Old Parliament Lane, Singapore 179429
EVENT WEBSITE: Eventbrite (for tickets)
DATE AND TIME
19 Aug 2023, 7pm-8pm, $21-$26