Music and Art are the guiding lights of the world.” - Pablo Picasso

"Guiding Lights" Art & Music from Impressionism to Jazz

Join me @dlr.lexicon as we explore the relationship between music and art from the light play of Ravel's Jeu d'Eau and Monet's Water Lilies to the pulsing yellow, red and blues rhythm of Mondrian's Broadway Boogie Woogie to Monk's In Walked Bud!

Over 4 successive Mondays we will follow the sound of the music and the smell of the oil paint, as we journey through time to la Belle Époque Europe, Paris, Munich, Vienna, east to St. Petersburg, through World War I, the Spanish flu, back to Paris for Les Années folles, the Jazz Age, the Roaring '20s and at the outbreak of World War II, fleeing to the safety, lights and glamour of New York in the 40s, a city astir from the Harlem Renaissance, the end of Prohibition, vivid and fizzing, shaken and stirred, with a fireworks of innovative work as artists from old Europe mixed with those from the New World.

Mondays Nov 27, Dec 4 and 11 will be lectures and discussion.
Monday 18 will be a performance of music reflective of our course - as well as Christmas tunes!!! 🎍

This event is completely ACCESSIBLE! It is also FREE but booking is essential, via eventbrite. The link is above in my links section.