OCEAN CITY – Explore the world of composer Charles Ives at the November free music lecture by Paul M. Somers, sponsored by the Bay-Atlantic Symphony.
You will see how Ives’s worlds—personal and musical—merge through his embracing of transcendentalism in this installment, the third of a four part series on four late-Romantic composers. Learn how the transcendentalist concept of the unity of the soul with nature and the divine became part of the philosophical and musical language of this fascinating American composer.
The lecture will occur on Tue., Nov. 8, from 6:30 to 8 p.m., at the Ocean City Public Library, Room 110, 1735 Simpson Ave., Ocean City.
This exploration of late-Romantic composers will conclude in December, as we see how Jean Sibelius’s worlds evolve and discover how, through the organic nature of his music, the flowers do not look like the roots.
Subsequent lectures this season will explore chamber music, improvisation, and the effect of architecture and performing space on music, along with a question-and-answer session in April and a Fresh Ears® experience in May.
Somers, Adult Education Director for the Bay-Atlantic Symphony, is a also a composer, performer, founder of Maurice River Music, was for 25 years the harpsichordist for the Virtuoso Strings of New York, and was a reviewer for the Star-Ledger.
The lectures are co-sponsored by the libraries in which they given.
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