This weekend, the Southbank’s ‘Rest is Noise’ Festival is devoted to the ‘Art of Fear’, and OU music lecturer Robert Samuels will be contributing to the events by giving a ‘bite-size’ talk on Sunday at 12.30pm in the foyer of the Queen Elizabeth Hall.
His talk is called ‘The Music of Total War’, and looks at three works: Michael Tippett’s oratorio, A Child of Our Time; Benjamin Britten’s War Requiem; and Dimitri Shostakovich’s Babi Yar Symphony.
More details can be found on the Southbank centre’s website, and on the OU’s OpenLearn pages.
