Sunday 25 June 2006, 17.00–19.00

'In your works you have put into practice something I have greatly longed for in music... the independent passage through individual adventures, the intrinsic life of the individual parts in your compositions is precisely what I too am attempting to find the field of painting.' 
– Wassily Kandinsky to Arnold Schoenberg in 1911

A seminar featuring those works by Arnold Schoenberg which convinced Wassily Kandinsky of the possibility of an abstract art, is followed by a devotional reflection on Kandinsky’s work. The speakers at the seminar are Rev Dr Nicholas Cranfield, Rev Dr Martin Warner, Dr Darla Crispin and Sean Rainbird, curator of the Kandinsky exhibition at Tate Modern. The event includes performances of the following Schoenberg works:

String Quartet no. 2, op. 10
Three Piano Pieces, op.11
Six Little Piano Pieces, op. 19

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St Paul's Cathedral 
Free, no bookings taken

Programme timetable:

17.00–17.45
A lecture-recital exploring the works that Kandinsky heard at a Munich concert which convinced him of the possibility of an abstract art.
String Quartet no. 2 op.10 and Three Piano Pieces op.11 will be performed by the Rocca Quartet and Timothy End (piano).
Speakers: Rev’d Dr Nicholas Cranfield (Church Times), Dr Darla Crispin (Royal College of Music), Sean Rainbird (Tate)

18.00–18.45
A theological and devotional reflection on the work of Kandinsky, featuring a performance of Schoenberg’s Six Little Piano Pieces, op. 19.
Speakers: Rev’d Dr Nicholas Cranfield (Church Times) and Rev’d Dr Martin Warner (St Paul’s Cathedral)

See also:

  The Sound of Colour: Kandinsky and Schoenberg 1911-2   Wednesday 5 July 2006

This event is related to the Kandinsky: The Path to Abstraction exhibition