Talk: How to Understand Contemporary Music? By Ken Smith
VIEW EVENT DETAILSThe 8th Hong Kong International Chamber Music Festival
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Are you puzzled when you approach a contemporary music concert? This lecture will take you through the Elements of Contemporary Music to help you better understand the music you love and to show you how to apply what you already appreciate in non-classical music.
As a critic and journalist, Ken Smith has covered music and cultural developments on five continents for wide range of media. He currently divides his time between New York and Hong Kong, where he is the Asian performing arts critic for the Financial Times of London. A winner of the ASCAP/Deems Taylor Award for excellence in music writing, he is a former house annotator for New York’s 92nd Street Y and has written program notes for Carnegie Hall, the Concertgebouw, Lincoln and Kennedy Centers, the BBC Proms and the Barbican Centre. His liner notes have appeared on recordings for Deutsche Grammophon, Sony, Bis, Ondine, Naxos and others. A regular arts commentator on RTHK Radio 4’s “Morning Call,” he is the author of Fate! Luck! Chance! Amy Tan, Stewart Wallace, and the Making of The Bonesetter’s Daughter Opera. Two collections of his writings about music have been translated and published by Beijing Normal University Press.
This talk will be conducted in English.
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