Music and different instruments also play a strong role within symbolism in art. Sophie explores the instruments in selected works and then gives live demonstrations on replicas of the instruments depicted.
So many of our historical references for musical instruments can be found in works of art. Not only can these windows into the past show us what the instruments looked like, but also the social context in which they would have been played. Music and different instruments also play a strong role within symbolism in art. Sophie explores the instruments in selected works and then gives live demonstrations on replicas of the instruments depicted.
How to book this event:
Tickets for the lecture for non-members can be purchased at the cinema.
THE ARTS SOCIETY ACCREDITED LECTURER
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Miss Sophie Matthews
Sophie is a musician well-known for her prowess on the English border bagpipes and has become one of the foremost players of the instrument in the UK. She also plays a variety of early woodwind instruments such as shawm, rauschpfeife, crumhorm and recorder. She’s also one of a handful of British players of the baroque musette, an 18th century French bagpipe similar to the Northumbrian smallpipes.
When not touring with GreenMatthews, Sophie also makes instruments (she made her own baroque oboe) and works with respected luthier Tony Millyard on his flutes. Sophie is self-taught on all of her instruments.
OTHER EVENTS
Affordable art in the form of woodblock prints became popular in Japan during the Edo period (1615–1868), and was known as Ukiyo-e, literally “pictures of the Floating World” for their ephemeral nature.
With this lecture Caroline explores the central role given to the natural world in van Gogh’s paintings. Depicted with the brightest colours, flowers, setting suns, fields and cypresses are recurrent motifs in his works