You are invited to the following seminar (via Zoom) as part of the RIAM Guest Lecture series:
Professor Alexander Rehding (Harvard University), ‘How Can Music Help with the Climate Crisis?’
Wednesday 18 January 2023, 1:00 p.m. Dublin
Zoom Meeting Link:
https://us02web.zoom.us/j/84911803747?pwd=Q0R4MDRtV1lUTVp2LzBVdTZjTUcydz09&from=addon
Meeting ID: 849 1180 3747
Passcode: 870267
ABSTRACT
At a time when solutions for climate change are expected from scientists and engineers the question about music’s contribution can be startling. But climate protection does not merely consist in innovative technologies but also in a change of behavior. And here music has a lot to offer. As an art form that shapes time it can help us come to terms with the perfidious temporality of climate change – in which we need to act right now, while knowing full well that not acting will have no immediate palpable consequences. So how can we motivate collective action? The talk discusses several examples of music that hold important climate lessons for us.
BIO
Alexander Rehding is Fanny Peabody Professor of Music at Harvard University. His monographs include Hugo Riemann and the Birth of Modern Musical Thought (2003), Music and Monumentality (2011), Beethoven’s Symphony no. 9 (2017), and Alien Listening (2021). He was editor for Acta musicologica (2006–2011), editor-in-chief of the Oxford Handbooks Online series in Music (2011–2019), and is currently series editor of the six-volume Cultural History of Western Music by Bloomsbury (to be published in 2023). His contributions have been recognized with such awards as a Guggenheim Fellowship and the Dent Medal. He is currently a Berlin Prize fellow at the American Academy.
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