Please join us for Pimm's and Nibbles in our cafe before the lecture
In this hour long talk we look at snippets of the classical cannon from Mozart’s A Musical Joke and Saint-Saens’ Carnival of the Animals, to Malcolm Arnold’s Grand Overture for Three Vacuum Cleaners, a Floor Polisher and Four Rifles, taking in along the way footage of Charlie Chaplin, Dudley Moore and Victor Borge, to uncover the techniques composers use to make us chortle.
'Mozart in Sunglasses' Public Domain
There will be a 24 hour protected recording of this lecture
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Come and enjoy this lively and creative lecture
THE ARTS SOCIETY ACCREDITED LECTURER
Emma Johnson
With 30 CDs to her name, Emma Johnson is one of the few clarinettists to have performed as a soloist all over the world. She also enjoys giving talks about music - Woodwind Wizardry and The Poet John Milton were both broadcast by BBC radio and she has lectured about composers Gerald Finzi and Malcolm Arnold for the internet company Tonebase, as well as about Schubert and Brahms for Martin Randall Travel.
Johnson studied Music and English at Pembroke College, Cambridge University, where she was the first woman to be made an Honorary Fellow. She was honoured by the Queen with an MBE in 1996.
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