Hearing Enchantment: Music Through Theosophy
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The Fry Street Quartet will perform a concert that explores the connections between music and Theosophy as part of the Leverhulme-funded network Enchanted Modernities: Theosophy and the Arts, 1875-1960. This will include rarely heard works from the twentieth-century British composers Cyril Scott and John Foulds. Scott found inspiration in the writings of Theosophical Society founder Helena Blavatsky, and Foulds worked for a time on behalf of the Society as director of music at the London headquarters. The concert will close with the music of Beethoven, a favourite musical topic in Theosophical journals and one of the composers often celebrated by Theosophists.
The Programme
John Foulds Aquarelles (Music-Pictures Group II) Op. 32 13’
Cyril Scott String Quartet, no. 2 (1958) 23’
* Intermission *
Beethoven String Quartet in F, Op. 59 #1 40’
The Tour
6 MAY
CARDIFF UNIVERSITY
School of Music, Corbett Road, CF10 3EB
7pm
Concert Hall
With a talk by Prof. Rachel Cowgill (Cardiff) and Dr. Chris Scheer (Utah State University), 6pm
Tickets are available online through Cardiff University Concert Hall's ticketing service ENTS 24
7 MAY
THEOSOPHICAL SOCIETY
50 Gloucester Place, London, W1U 8EA
7.30pm
Lecture Room
With pre-concert talk by Dr. James Mansell, 6.30pm
Tickets are available by emailing enchantedmodernities@york.ac.uk (please state that you require tickets for the London Venue)
9 MAY
UNIVERSITY OF YORK
Heslington, York, YO10 5DD
12.30pm
3Sixty Space, Ron Cooke Hub, Campus East
With Reception at the Pioneering Spirit: Maud MacCarthy - Mysticism, Music and Modernity Exhibition, Borthwick Institute, 5.30pm
Tickets are available by emailing enchantedmodernities@york.ac.uk (please state that you require tickets for the York Venue)