Events
Musiking in a New Key: Encountering Music from around the World
9 May 2020
3pm – 4pm
Zoom Webinar
Prof. Frederick Lau, Dept. of Music
Frederick Lau is an ethnomusicologist, flutist, and conductor whose scholarly interests include a broad range of topics in Chinese, Western, and Asian music and cultures. Currently, he is chair and professor of music and director of the Center for Chinese Music Studies at the Chinese University of Hong Kong.
Tel: (852) 3943 7107
Email: arts@cuhk.edu.hk
Free and open to the public, this series of webinars will present research by a diverse group of scholars from the Faculty of Arts at CUHK. Each speaker will bring refreshing and historical perspectives on our contemporary moment, either directly or through reflection. Together, these public events will speak for the value and relevance of humanities scholarship at a time when we face profound global challenges. Lectures will be about 30 minutes in length, followed by a question and answer session with the audience.
http://www.arts.cuhk.edu.hk/web/en-gb/aboutus/ events/534-public-online-lectures-arts-andhumanities- in-the-face-of-global-challenges
The world of music is fantastic and full of contradictions. Familiar music provides comfort while unfamiliar sounds can baffle even experienced music lovers. Inspired by Aaron Copland’s famous book What to Listen for in Music, this lecture takes the audience into the intriguing universe of world music. How do we listen to music that is so drastically different from our own? How do we appreciate the beauty in music from a different culture? In this lecture, Frederick Lau will share selected world music examples and offer strategies to uncover their inner musical logic and beauty. Through music, listeners will be provided with another avenue to appreciate the wonders of the world and its multifaceted cultures.
Moderator: Prof. Wendy Lee, Dept. of Music
