Cubism and music

Cubism and Music: a debate on the relationship

A collaboration with the Conservatori del Liceu

Thursday January 26th, 2017

Finissage of the exhibition, in both entities

Presentations based around the relation between cubism and music and a concert given by the students of the Conservatori del Liceu.

A research about the parallelisms, both biographic and historiographical, between pictorial cubism and music, with the following questions as a starting point: Why did pictorial cubism use so many musical motifs? Which composers were aesthetically or personally linked to cubism? If music is the art of time, what would be the cubist time?

-Guided tour to the exhibition, 5 pm

An opportunity to visit, with museum staff, this exhibition before its closure.

-Lecture hall of the Museu Picasso, from 6 pm at 7.30 pm
6 pm: Josep Pla i Carrera, Professor emeritus, Universitat de Barcelona.
6.30 pm: Michela Rosso, Professor of the Department of History of Art, Universitat de Barcelona: Musical objects and their connection with Cubist theory.
7 pm: Questions and answers moderated by Benjamin Davies, composer and theorist.

-Orchestra hall of the Conservatori del Liceu, from 8.30 pm at 10 pm

8.30 pm: Benet Casablancas, composer and musicologist: Music, Painting and Cubism. Analogies, confluences and counterpoints.
9 pm: Concert by the ensemble Liceu XXI (Manel Valdivieso, conductor):
Octandre (Edgard Varèse)
Papiers collés (Daniel Muñoz, première)
Dumbarton Oaks (Igor Stravinsky)