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Music and Faith Lecture Series: Music, Religion and the Modern Era: Leonard Bernstein

Darien Library presents a new four-week, Tuesday lecture series on music and faith taught by Gil Harel. (Watch his previous lectures.) All lectures take place from 7 to 8 p.m. in the Community Room at Darien Library. — an announcement from Darien Library
Music, Religion, and the Modern Era: Leonard Bernstein
For many listeners, classical music of the 20th century is polarizing. Beginning with composers such as Igor Stravinsky and Arnold Schoenberg, dissonance and instability began to supplant traditional approaches to melody and harmony. This new and somewhat radical style was applied to seemingly every style of music, from ballet to chamber music to concerti, as well as religious music.

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Music and Faith Lecture Series: From Beethoven’s Missa Solemnis to Verdi’s Requiem

Darien Library presents a new four-week, Tuesday lecture series on music and faith taught by Gil Harel. (Watch his previous lectures.) All lectures take place from 7 to 8 p.m. in the Community Room at Darien Library. — an announcement from Darien Library
From Beethoven’s Missa Solemnis to Verdi’s Requiem
Beethoven’s name does not immediately conjure up church music, and yet the composer himself was said to have considered his Missa Solemnis to be among his finest works. This “Solemn Mass” is a testament to the composer’s ambition (the work clocks in at over 80 minutes and present the performers with significant challenges), as well as his dedication to mastering the styles of the past. In Verdi’s Requiem, we have a curious example of a non-operatic work created by a composer associated almost exclusively with opera.

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Music and Faith Lectures: Liturgical Music in the Age of Enlightenment: Mozart and Haydn

Darien Library presents a new four-week, Tuesday lecture series on music and faith taught by Gil Harel. (Watch his previous lectures.) All lectures take place from 7 to 8 p.m. in the Community Room at Darien Library. — an announcement from Darien Library
Liturgical Music in the Age of Enlightenment: Mozart and Haydn
European society changed dramatically in the second half of the 18th century, and as it did, so did the role of music in the church. In this era where philosophers touted the supremacy of reason over dogma, liturgical music often took on the characteristics of then-contemporary music. In this era, melody was king and simple, homophonic textures prevailed.

Johann Sebastian Bach J.S. Bach portrait

Music and Faith Lecture Series: The Renaissance to J.S. Bach

Darien Library presents a new four-week, Tuesday lecture series on music and faith taught by Gil Harel. (Watch his previous lectures.) All lectures take place from 7 to 8 p.m. in the Community Room at Darien Library, starting this Tuesday, Nov. 20. — an announcement from Darien Library
The Renaissance to J.S. Bach
This Tuesday, Nov. 20 at 7 p.m.

The study of what scholars call “early music” is dominated by the works of composers whose faith informed and inspired their creativity.