Topic: OPERA
We'll explore this amazing, collaborative art-form through Henry Purcell's great little opera, Dido and Aeneas, which also continues our mini-series on Purcell. Dido is tuneful, funny, tragic, silly and deeply felt- all in less than an hour! And in English, with subtitles too.
Speaker: Tom Benjamin
The Story: Dido was, in Roman mythology, the queen of Carthage. She was the daughter of a king of Tyre. After her brother Pygmalion murdered her husband, she fled to Libya, where she founded and ruled Carthage. According to one legend, Dido threw herself on a burning pyre to escape marriage to the king of Libya. In the Aeneid, Virgil tells how she fell in love with Aeneas, who had been shipwrecked at Carthage, and destroyed herself on the pyre when, at Jupiter’s command, he left to continue his journey to Italy.
All are welcome; technical knowledge of music is not needed. This is the 27th monthly lecture.
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Tom Benjamin, a new TVIH member and distinguished musician and educator, will offer a series of music education lectures for music lovers. If you like to sing,, play an instrument, or just enjoy listening to music, this program is for you. This program is free and open to TVIH members and the public.
Our Speaker:
Tom Benjamin is a composer, music theorist, conductor and performer- only because he can't decide what he wants to do when he grows up. He tau ght music theory and composition for far too many years at the University of Houston, the National Music Camp (Interlochen) and the Peabody Conservatory of Johns Hopkins, where he chaired the Theory Department. Tom has just retired from a wonderful 30-year gig as Minister of Music at the Unitarian Universalist Congregation of Columbia. He's looking forward to a new and very different kind of teaching with the swift folks at TVIH.
Alan Coltri and Laurie Coltri will provide technical assistance in the zoom meeting room.
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To join the zoom meeting, you must register.
A meeting link will be emailed to you after you register.
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meeting of Dido and Aeneas, painting by Guerin