How Literature Springs Into Music – Carol Reynolds

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2020 Workshop Talk | 48:42 | All Grade Levels, Art & Music, Literature

Summary

Our Western cultural heritage owes much to the composer’s embrace of literature. The principles for transforming text into music are fascinating and historically consistent. We will consider these principles using examples from the Old Testament, Shakespeare, and Cervantes’ Don Quixote.

Speaker

Professor Carol Reynolds is a uniquely talented and much sought-after public speaker for arts venues and general audiences. She combines her insights on music history, arts, and culture with her passion for arts education to create programs and curricula, inspire concert audiences, and lead arts tours. Never dull or superficial, Carol brings to her audiences a unique mix of humor, substance, and skilled piano performance to make the arts more accessible and meaningful to all. Carol has led
arts tours to Russia, Poland, Austria, Germany, Hungary, Switzerland, the Czech Republic, Croatia, Slovakia, San Francisco, and Broadway on behalf of several arts organizations and has recently teamed with Smithsonian Journeys for cruises to the Holy Land, Mediterranean, Caribbean, Baltic Sea, Indian Ocean, and across the Atlantic. For more than 20 years, Carol was associate professor of music history at the Meadows School of the Arts, Southern Methodist University in Dallas, Texas. She now makes her home in North Carolina and maintains a second residence in Weimar, Germany—the home of Goethe, Schiller, Bach, and Liszt, and the focal point of much of Europe’s artistic heritage.

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