The Italian Cultural Institute of Chicago, in collaboration with the Italian Cultural Institutes in Los Angeles, Montreal, New York, San Francisco, Toronto and Washington D.C. are pleased to present the conference, by Robert Kendrick (William Colvin Professor in Music, Romance Languages and Literatures, and the College University of Chicago) entitled: “Raphael’s Music: From Urbino to Rome”.
Wednesday, July 29, 7:00 pm EST
Although music does not play such a prominent role in Raphael’s output as in, for instance, Titian or Caravaggio, still he was born and worked in very musical places: Urbino and Rome. This talk looks at the music that he might have heard and that might have sounded around him, both in the Marches and in the Eternal City.
Robert L. Kendrick works largely in early modern music and culture, with additional interests in Latin American music, historical anthropology, traditional Mediterranean polyphony, music and commemoration, and the visual arts. His most recent book is Singing Jeremiah: Music and Meaning in Holy Week (Indiana UP, 2014), and recent graduate seminars include: ‘European Sacred Music Abroad, 1550-1730’; ‘Senecan Drama, Stoicism, and Baroque Opera’ (co-taught)’; and ‘Music and Images in Early Modern Europe‘. He has taught on the Rome and Vienna programs of the Civilization Core, as well as undergraduate ethnomusicology. In 2006 he won a Graduate Teaching Award.
The event is organized by the Italian Cultural Institute of Chicago with the Italian Cultural Institutes in Los Angeles, Montreal, New York, San Francisco, Toronto & Washington D.C on the occasion of the 500th anniversary of Raphael, #Raphael500.
