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post-war world
Weekend Events Timetable
Create your own timetable for the weekend, going from
keynote talks to intimate discussions and film screenings
Saturday 5 October
TIME EVENT CONTENT
Throughout the day Electronic Music Hub The Royal College of Music presents some
of the early classics of electronic music.
Film Screenings
Short films and documentaries from the period.
10am – 11am Breakfast with Grab a coffee and delve into
Stockhausen
Stockhausen’s Gesang der Jünglinge.
11.15am – 12.15pm From the War to the Wall
Opening lecture by Donald Sassoon.
12.30pm – 1.30pm Tom Service: Listen to This Get to know the music of Post-War World.
Frances Stonor Saunders
Robert Worby
Noise Bites
The author of Who Paid the Piper? explores
the Congress for Cultural Freedom which
was covertly funded by the CIA.
A talk on the birth of electronic music.
The need-to-know topics of the era.
2.30pm – 3.30pm Tom Service: Listen to This Please see 12.30pm.
Jonathan Meades:
Le Corbusier & Modern
Architecture
Darkness Spoken
4pm – 5pm Robert Worby Please see 12.30pm.
Noise Bites
Zygmunt Bauman –
Modernity and the
Holocaust
The leading broadcaster on architecture and
place champions the bravura work of a
modernist master.
A reading and discussion focusing on the letters
of poets Paul Celan and Ingeborg Bachmann,
written in the shadow of Auschwitz.
The need-to-know topics of the era.
One of the great contemporary philosophers
examines how the Holocaust redefined our
sense of the ‘modern’.
6pm – 7pm Christopher Fox Pre-concert talk, on Stockhausen and Boulez.
7.30pm – 9.30pm Stockhausen & Boulez: Franck Ollu, Colin Currie, Nicolas Hodges,
Modern Masterpieces* Hilary Summers, Members of Aurora Orchestra
Sunday 6 October
TIME EVENT CONTENT
Throughout the day Electronic Music Hub The Royal College of Music presents some
of the early classics of electronic music.
Film Screenings
10.30am – 11.30am Nuria Schoenberg-Nono
helmut Lachenmann &
Christopher Fox
Short films and documentaries from the period.
Nuria Schoenberg-Nono recounts her life
surrounded by legendary musical figures,
with composers Helmut Lachenmann and
Christopher Fox.
12 noon – 1pm Noise Bites The need-to-know topics of the era.
Ian Buruma
The writer surveys post-war politics based
on his book Year Zero: The History of 1945.
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Primo Levi
A discussion about the life and work of
this writer who survived Auschwitz.
1pm – 2pm Guildhall School of Performance of Xenakis and Cage.
Music & Drama
2pm – 3pm Noise Bites The need-to-know topics of the era.
Black Mountain College
3pm – 4pm Guildhall School of Please see 1pm.
Music & Drama
A celebration of the artistic experimentation
in this unique environment.
3pm – 5pm Tamara Stefanovich* Piano recital of music by Ligeti,
Stockhausen, Messiaen and Boulez.
4pm – 5pm John Carey ‘High’ and ‘low’ art in post-war Britain;
who produced art and for which audiences?
The Geometry of Fear
Introduction to Adorno
DAY PASs £15
WEEKEND pASS £25
Full, extended details of talks, topics, speakers and
timings plus additional events will be available online.
* Not included in the Day or Weekend Pass
Explore how sculpture was re-shaped in the
aftermath of the war.
Yvonne Sherratt and Nicholas Lezard
explore Adorno’s philosophy and music
criticism after the Holocaust.
5.15pm – 5.45pm Tom Service An introduction to Stockhausen’s Gruppen.
6pm – 8pm Stockhausen’s Gruppen* London Sinfonietta and Royal Academy of Music.
8pm – 9.30pm Dr Strangelove Stanley Kubrick’s 1964 feature film.
october southbankcentre.co.uk/therestisnoise | tickets: 0844 847 9913