PROFESSOR A.D.P. BRIGGS

Tolstoy

Talk 1:

Music To Die For: Russian Writers and Macabre Preoccupations

Thursday 25 May
10.30am, Leisure Centre
Tickets: £6.00 (4 talks for £20.00)

Professor A.D.P. Briggs discusses works by Pushkin, Turgenev and Tolstoy, with musical examples from Mussorgsky, Tchaikovsky and Beethoven.

Pushkin

Talk 2:

Tchaikovsky and Pushkin, Men of Russian Letters

Friday 26 May
10.30am, Leisure Centre
Tickets £6.00 (4 talks for £20.00)

Professor Briggs considers Tchaikovsky’s 3 Pushkin operas (Eugene Onegin, Mazeppa, Queen of Spades) and sensitive literary judgement. With musical illustrations sung by mezzo-soprano, Erika Sassmann.

 

Cerddoriaeth y Meirw: Awduron Rwsieg a Gofidion Annaearol

Dydd Iau Mai 25
10.30am, Canolfan Hamdden
Tocynnau:  £6.00 (4 sgwrs am £20.00)

Bydd yr Athro A.D.P.Briggs yn trafod gweithiau gan Pushkin, Turgenev a Tolstoy, gydag enghreifftiau cerddorol gan Mussorgsky, Tchaikovsky a Beethoven.

Tchaikovsky a Pushkin, Llythyr-ddynion Rwsieg


Dydd Gwener Mai 26
10.30am, Canolfan Hamdden
Tocynnau:  £6.00 (4 sgwrs am £20.00)

Bydd yr Athro Briggs yn ystyried 3 opera Pushkin Tchaikovsky a barn llenyddol synhwyrus.