LECTURE - Stravinsky and Spain

Stravinsky and Spain

by Graham Griffiths

Dear Members and Guests,

We invite you to join us for the first lecture of the season given by Graham Griffiths on ‘Stravinsky and Spain’ in the Atrium on Tuesday 14th Octobrt 2025 at 20.00 hours.

The story, rarely told, of how Stravinsky’s elegant and beautiful Neoclassical music found its origins in the noisy flamenco bars of Seville. As a young man Stravinsky was captivated by Spanish music and its varied manifestations. To illustrate this, the presentation will include many attractive, Iberian-flavoured examples from Stravinsky’s most popular Neoclassical music including 'Pulcinella' and 'The Soldier’s Tale'.

This will be a live lecture with the lecturer physically present in the Atrium. We are hoping that members and Guests will take the opportunity to come to the Atrium.

For those unable to be present at the Atrium, this lecture will also be streamed via a Zoom Webinar to those who registered.

You are requested to sign up for the lecture beforehand, also if you are coming to join us in person at the Atrium, by clicking on the sentence at the 'How to book' section.

How to book this event:

Registration will open on +/- 29 SEP 25 and close at midnight 12 OCT 25.

Please click on this sentence to register for Atrium attendance or Zoom Webinar.

THE ARTS SOCIETY ACCREDITED LECTURER

Dr Graham Griffiths

Lecturer, conductor, pianist, composer. Music Research Fellow (City, University of London). DPhil., Musicology (Christ Church, Oxford, 2008), PGCE (Cambridge), BMusHons (Edinburgh).

Musical Director Grupo Novo Horizonte de Sao Paulo (featured on BBCR3); lectures, concerts, and recordings (UK, Denmark, Brazil, Russia); Guest of The British Council; University lecturing (UK) at Bath, Bristol, Canterbury (Christchurch), City (London), Oxford.

Author: Stravinsky’s Piano: Genesis of a Musical Language (Cambridge, 2013/2015; ‘Kaschperowa, Leokadiya’ in Instrumentalistinnen-Lexikon-online (Bremen: Sophie Drinker Institut, 2018):- Stravinsky in Context (CUP, 2021): - Leokadiya Kashperova: Biography, ‘Memoirs’ & ‘Recollections of Anton Rubinstein’ (CUP, 2023)

Editor: Stravinsky in Context (Cambridge, 2020); Contributor to The Stravinsky Encyclopedia (Cambridge, forthcoming); Strawinsky Abécédaire (ed. Marie Strawinsky) (Geneva: Editions Slatkine, 2018).

Recordings: Latin American Sacred Music of the 18th and 19th centuries; Brazilian contemporary music; the piano music of L.A.Kashperova.

Composer, film: Voyage of the Vikings: Hurricane! Hurry! (dir. Camille Bontemps: Edwards Films, 2018).

Guest appearances - BBC Radio 3’s Composer of the Week (December 2022: BBCSounds ‘Kashperova Composer of the Week’) and at ‘St Petersburg International Conservatoires Festival’ performing lost works by Leokadiya Kashperova (1872-1940) re-discovered by Griffiths. This research featured in the BBCRadio3/AHRC celebration Five Forgotten Female Composers on International Women’s Day (8 March 2018). Griffiths’s work has been featured by public service broadcasters in several countries.

I can offer live lectures and/or hybrid lectures and am perfectly willing for these to be streamed simultaneously on YouTube to members only. Then deleted afterwards.

GALLERY