During the 2019-20 season, Camerata Pacifica chamber ensemble will host a series of six “Why Beethoven?” panel discussions in Santa Barbara and Pasadena, California with scholars from the U.S. and abroad. The first panels on November 6 and 7 will feature Lydia Goehr, a Columbia University philosophy professor and author of essays including The Imaginary Museum of Musical Works: An Essay in the Philosophy of Music, speaking with Alex Ross, music critic of The New Yorker, about concertgoing culture now and in Beethoven’s time. On January 22/23, Dr. Hao Huang (Scripps College), Derek Katz (U.C. Santa Barbara), Sheila Melvin (co-author, Rhapsody in Red: How Western Classical Music Became Chinese), Laurence Vittes (contributor, Gramophone, Bachtrack, Strings magazine) will discuss Beethoven in China and the West. On March 11/12, panelists Jindong Cai (Stanford University), Daniel Chua (University of Hong Kong), and Joseph Horowitz (PostClassical Ensemble co-founder and creator of festival projects including Dvořák in America) will focus on Beethoven’s central role in current concert programming, and whether Beethoven will survive into the 22nd century. Discussions take place at Karpeles Manuscript Library in Santa Barbara and the Pasadena Conservatory of Music in Pasadena.
Posted November 4, 2019
