Unless otherwise noted, all programs take place at the Yale Center for British Art (YCBA) and are free and open to the public.
LECTURE-CONCERT SERIES: Fall Semester 2006
Wednesday, Sept. 20, 5:30pm
Lecture and Performance: Art & Music in Elizabethan England
British tenor James Gilchrist and lutenist Elizabeth Kenney perform Elizabethan lute songs, with an introduction by Tim Barringer, Paul Mellon Professor of the History of Art, Yale University, on the art and architecture of the period.
Wednesday, Oct. 4, 5:30pm
Opening Lecture & Performance: Art & Music in Medieval Britain
Lecture by Margot Fassler, Robert S. Tangeman Professor of Music History and Liturgy, Yale University, followed by a concert featuring Judith Malafronte, mezzo-soprano, and performers from the Yale Institute of Sacred Music.
Tuesday, Oct. 10, 12:30pm
Art in Context: Art & Music at the Vauxhall Gardens
Eleanor Hughes, Postdoctoral Research Associate
Wednesday, Oct. 11, 5:30pm
Lecture & Performance: Aspiring to the Condition of Music
Lecture on the Aesthetic Movement by Tim Barringer, Paul Mellon Professor of the History of Art, Yale University, followed by a performance of Victorian songs and ballads by vocalists from the Yale Institute of Sacred Music.
Tuesday, Nov. 7, 12:30pm
Art in Context: Soothing King George: Amusing Queen Victoria
Rebecca Flannery, harpist.
Tuesday, Nov. 14, 12:30pm
Art in Context: The Lady and her Music
Paul Hawkshaw, Adjunct Professor of Music History
Wednesday, Nov. 15, 5:30pm
Lecture & Performance: Music and Art in Handel’s London
An illustrated lecture by baroque music specialist Nicholas McGegan.
Tuesday, Dec. 5, 8:30pm (Berkeley College dining hall)
Lecture & Performance: Art & Music in Britain - The Court Masque
Remarks by Tim Barringer, followed by a staging of William Lawes’s Britannia Triumphans, performed by students from the Institute of Sacred Music Voice Program, Yale School of Music, and professional instrumentalists.
TOURS: Fall Semester
Tours of special exhibitions, led by docents, are offered on most Thursdays at 11 am, Saturdays at noon, and Sundays at 2 pm. Tours for Art & Music in Britain: Four Encounters, 1730-1900 will take place on the following dates: October 7, 12, 15, 19, 28; November 5, 11, 16; and December 3, 9, 14, 17, 23, 31
ART AND MUSIC FALL FILM SERIES: Fall Semester
This series draws attention to film scores written by major British composers in the mid-twentieth century, a golden age for British orchestral music. Writing music for the moving image required special skills but also freed composers to innovate with sounds too daring for the concert hall, as in the scores of Benjamin Britten for documentaries in the 1930s. All screenings are in the Center’s Lecture Hall and are free and open to the public. Seating is limited to 200.
Saturday, Dec. 16, 2:00 pm
Night Mail (1936); directed by Harry Watt & Basil Wright
A short film which depicts the nightly journey of the mail train from London to Glasgow on which mail is sorted, dropped, and collected; Benjamin Britten, composer (not rated; 25 minutes).
Saturday, Dec. 16, 2:30pm
Instruments of the Orchestra (1946); directed by Muir Mathieson
A short film that introduces all the instruments in the contemporary symphony orchestra; Benjamin Britten, composer (not rated; 20 minutes).
Saturday, Dec. 16, 3:00pm
Coal Face (1935); directed by Alberto Cavalcanti
A look at the once-dominant coal mining industry within the United Kingdom; Benjamin Britten, composer (not rated; 11 minutes).
Sunday, Dec. 17, 12:30pm
A Christmas Carol (1951); directed by Brian Desmond Hurst
In this adaptation of Dickens’s classic, Ebenezer Scrooge is given a chance for redemption when ghosts haunt him on Christmas Eve; Richard Addinsell, composer (not rated; 86 minutes).
Sunday, Dec. 17, 2:30pm
Things to Come (1936); directed by William Cameron Menzies
A decades-long global war, which began in 1940, leaves plague and anarchy in its wake. Then in 2036, a rational state rebuilds civilization and tries space travel; Arthur Drummond Bliss, composer (not rated; 92 minutes).
LECTURE-CONCERT SERIES: Spring 2007 Semester
Wednesday, Jan. 24, 5:30pm
Lecture & Performance: Edwardian Landscapes in Art and Music
A lecture by Tim Barringer, Paul Mellon Professor of the History of Art, Yale University, followed by a performance of Elgar’s Piano Quintet by the Biava Quartet and pianist, Melvin Chen.
Friday, Feb. 23, 5:30pm
Lecture & Performance: Neo-Romantic Art and Music in Britain
Lecture by Tim Barringer, with Yale Schola Cantorum, Simon Carrington, conductor, and soloists from the Yale Institute of Sacred Music Graduate Voice Program, performing works by Britten and Tippett.
Wednesday, Mar. 7, 5:30pm
Lecture & Performance: Art and Music in Britain’s Jazz Age
Lecture by Tim Barringer, followed by a performance of William Walton’s “Façade” by the New World Consort, conducted by its artistic director, Roy Wiseman.
Tuesday, Apr. 24, 5:30pm
Performance
British contemporary composer Brian Ferneyhough will perform.
ART AND MUSIC SPRING FILM SERIES
A continuation from our fall film series, this series draws attention to film scores written by major British composers in the mid-twentieth century, a golden age for British orchestral music. Writing music for the moving image required special skills but also freed composers to innovate with sounds too daring for the concert hall, as in the scores of Benjamin Britten for documentaries in the 1930s. All screenings are in the Center’s Lecture Hall except where noted. Free and open to the public. Seating is limited to 200.
Saturday, Feb. 17, 2:00pm
49th Parallel (1941); directed by Michael Powell
During World War II, a Nazi captain of a U-boat stranded in a Canadian bay seeks neutral US territory in the hope of evading capture; Ralph Vaughan Williams, composer (not rated; 123 minutes).
Saturday, Feb. 24, 2:00pm
Henry V (1944); directed by Laurence Olivier
The story of English King Henry V and his military campaign in France in 1415. Based on the historical play by Shakespeare; William Walton, composer (not rated; 137 minutes).
Saturday, Mar. 3, 2:00pm
Oliver Twist (1948); directed by David Lean
Based on the novel by Charles Dickens, an orphan boy runs away and joins a band of thieves. Their activities lead to murder and community outrage; Arnold Bax, composer (not rated; 116 minutes).
Saturday, Mar. 10, 2:00pm
The Dam Busters (1954), directed by Michael Anderson
Based on the true story of how the British invented an ingenious technique of dropping bombs on German dams during World War II; Eric Coates, composer (not rated; 124 minutes).
Saturday, Mar. 17, 2:00pm
Goldfinger (1964), directed by Guy Hamilton.
Agent 007 is sent to investigate Auric Goldfinger, who is suspected of stockpiling vast quantities of gold. Bond soon discovers Goldfinger’s scheme to obliterate the world economy (rated PG; 112 minutes).
Saturday, Mar. 24, 2:00pm
A Hard Day’s Night (1964); directed by Richard Lester
A typical day in the life of the Beatles; music by The Beatles (rated G; 87 minutes).
Saturday, Apr. 7, 2:00pm
The Skull (1965); directed by Freddie Francis
Dr. Maitland, a collector of esoterica, buys an unusual skull. He soon discovers that the skull affects him in a grave manner; Elisabeth Lutyens, composer (not rated; 90 minutes).
Saturday, Apr. 14, 1:30pm
O Lucky Man! (1973); directed by Lindsay Anderson
A sprawling and surrealist musical about the adventures of a young coffee salesman in Europe; music by Alan Price (rated R; 183 minutes).