Songmakers In Conversation

Submitted by The Cultural Pr... on October 8, 2023 - 14:48

Venue, Timing and Cost

Venue: 
Holywell Music Room
Date(s): 
Thursday, 26 October 2023
Timing: 
3:00pm - 4:00pm
Cost: 
Tickets are FREE, booking is required.

Ahead of the world premiere of The Glass Eye taking place at Holywell Music Room at 7.30pm, Associate Composer Alex Ho discusses the inspiration for his new ‘cli-fi’ song cycle with Elayce Ismail, as well as the collaborative process of creating a major new work for the song repertoire.

Prof Nayanika Mathur (Prof of Anthropology and South Asian Studies, University of Oxford & Governing Body Fellow at Wolfson College) will respond to the question posed by Alex Ho about the imagined impact climate change could have on a social level. The conversation will be chaired by Prof Daniel Grimley (Head of Humanities at University of Oxford; Professor of Music and Professorial Fellow, Merton College).

Further Information

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Talk
Music
Written and Spoken Word

Adults
Children and Families
Young People