On 12 November the Giorgio Cini Foundation Institute of Music will host a concert to mark the eightieth birthday of Michel Faure, the celebrated French musicologist.
\nThe concert will feature piano music performed by Nathalie Lano\u00eb and Jean-Michel Kim. The programme consists of works by Chopin, Liszt, Bart\u00f3k, the world premiere of “Three Dances” from Ottorino Respighi\u2019s Inno omerico ad Atena, Ondulation by Eisuke Tshucidai, and Nino Rota\u2019s Due valzer sul nome di Bach and Toccata per arpa in the composer\u2019s own transcription for piano. Lastly, some of Faure\u2019s pianist and violinist friends will play ad lib for the musicologist with pieces chosen from works by Schubert, Rota, Prokofiev, Pergolesi and others. A leading expert in historical and sociological studies of 20th-century French music, Michel Faure has published a number of major essays including Histoire et po\u00e9tique de la m\u00e9lodie fran\u00e7aise (2000); Jos\u00e9 Serebrier: un chef d\u2019orchestre et compositeur \u00e0 l\u2019aube du XXI\u00e8me si\u00e8cle: propos et textes recueillis, traduits et annot\u00e9s, discographie compl\u00e8te (2001); Influence de la soci\u00e9t\u00e9 sur la musique: analyse d\u2019\u00e6uvres musicales \u00e0 la lumi\u00e8re des sensibilit\u00e9s collectives (2008); Du n\u00e9oclassicisme musical dans la France du premier XXe si\u00e8cle (1997); and Musique et soci\u00e9t\u00e9, du Second Empire aux ann\u00e9es vingt: autour de Saint-Sa\u00ebns, Faur\u00e9, Debussy et Ravel (1985).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"cini_tax_event_categories":[1483],"cini_tax_institutes":[],"cini_tax_event_locations":[],"class_list":["post-1208","cini_events","type-cini_events","status-publish","hentry","cini_tax_event_categories-concerts-and-shows"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"\n