Friends Curatorial Morning - Seeing Sound: Friends of the Fitzwilliam

Thursday 9 January 2020
The Fitzwilliam Museum
Friends of the Fitzwilliam, Curatorial Morning - Seeing Sound. Image Credit – Dante Gabriel Rossetti (1828-1882) Morning music (detail)

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A last chance to enjoy a curatorial led morning, taking a closer at this exhibition which brings together a remarkable range of works from the Museum’s collections to explore the ways in which artists and composers have engaged in a dialogue between sight and sound. Artistic and musical collaborations for the stage sit alongside works that employ music making as a visual metaphor for love. Others reference music’s ability to trigger an emotional response without a visual cue. The tension between abstract and figurative, graphic and sonic, is alluded to through the display of musical scores alongside drawings and prints. The exhibition includes works by Watteau, Rossetti, Renoir and Picasso and musical manuscripts by Handel, Brahms, Stravinsky and the Founder of the Museum, Lord Fitzwilliam.
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10:30 - 12:30 
Meet in the Seminar Room at 10.30
 
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