{"id":10860,"date":"2022-03-02T11:43:35","date_gmt":"2022-03-02T11:43:35","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/music-matters\/?p=10860"},"modified":"2022-03-15T08:36:48","modified_gmt":"2022-03-15T08:36:48","slug":"empty-squares-unknown-shores-earbox-returns-to-studio-3-gallery","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/music-matters\/2022\/03\/02\/empty-squares-unknown-shores-earbox-returns-to-studio-3-gallery\/","title":{"rendered":"Empty squares, unknown shores: #EarBox returns to Studio 3 Gallery"},"content":{"rendered":"

Images of empty Italian piazzi<\/em> find echo in music for string orchestra, including John Woolrich\u2019s Ulysses Wakes<\/em>, as the #EarBox<\/strong><\/em> series bringing music and images together returns to Studio 3 Gallery with the University String Sinfonia on Weds 23 March at 1.10pm<\/strong>.<\/p>\n

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Charlotte Cane<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
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John Woolrich: image by Chesney Browne<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Woolrich\u2019s piece is a transcription of Ulysses’ first aria in Monteverdi’s opera Il ritorno d’Ulisse<\/em> in patria, first performed in 1640. Washed up on the coast of Ithaca, Ulysses wakes on the shores and asks \u2018Am I sleeping or awake? \/ And what country surrounds me?\u2019 as he fails at first to recognise his home. In Woolrich\u2019s reimagining, Ulysses\u2019 questioning aria is sung not by a voice, but by the darker-hued tones of a solo viola, played here by Music Performance Scholar, Kira Hilton.<\/strong><\/p>\n

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The University String Sinfonia<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

The programme will also include Purcell\u2019s Chacony<\/em> and Vaughan Williams\u2019 reflective Fantasia on a theme by Thomas Tallis.\u00a0<\/em>as well as Vivaldi’s vivacious ‘Spring’ from The Four Seasons.<\/em><\/p>\n

The concert is set against the backdrop of the gallery\u2019s current exhibition Le Piazze [In]visibili \u2013 Invisible Squares<\/strong><\/em>, which was created during the early days of lockdown in Italy in 2020, and reflects the desolate emptiness of town squares which traditionally throng with residents and tourists, but which suddenly became empty like so many social spaces around the entire world.<\/p>\n

Admission free<\/p>\n

Find out more about the exhibition here.<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n