Kate Molleson | Sound Within Sound: Listening to the global 20th century

Event details

Speaker: Kate Molleson

Date: Thursday 9 March 2023

Time: 5.15 - 6.45pm.  

Venue: Alison House, Atrium (G10)

Abstract

Journalist and BBC Radio 3 broadcaster Kate Molleson discusses her award-winning Sound Within Sound (Faber, 2022) – “a radical new book which fundamentally changes the way we think about classical music and the musicians who made it on a global scale.” In it, she profiles ten 20th century composers who wrote uniquely inventive music against the backdrop of seismic social-political shifts: revolutions in the Philippines and Mexico, military coups in Brazil and Ethiopia. She meets pioneers of electronic music and environmental sound art, discussed the creative impact of war trauma, censorship, racial and gender politics and more. In accumulating these stories, she reshapes the way we think about sound and its meaning in the 20th century. This presentation will be an informal discussion with Dr Annette Davison. 

Biography

Kate Molleson is a journalist and broadcaster. She presents BBC Radio 3’s New Music Show and Music Matters. Her documentaries (BBC Radio 4, BBC World Service) have investigated music in Greenland, opera in Mongolia, lost recordings of Arabic classical music and the Ethiopian nun/pianist/composer Emahoy Tsegué-Maryam Guèbrou. Her articles are published in The Guardian, The Herald, BBC Music Magazine, Opera, Gramophone and elsewhere. She was commissioning editor of Dear Green Sounds, a history of Glasgow’s music venues commissioned by UNESCO. She teaches music journalism at Darmstadt and Dartington.  

Links

Kate Molleson's website (external link)