More to Music than Meets the Ear

ADFAS Shoalhaven’s September lecture will be presented by New Zealand lecturer Heath Lees who for 25 years was Professor of Music at the University of Auckland.

The lecture Heath Lees will be presenting is entitled “More to Music than Meets the Ear”. Music speaks to us through pictures and gestures in sound, all pre-arranged by talented composers. In this lecture, Heath explores how western composers have created sound-based messages through gesture and pattern. He travels through a wide variety of musical media – instrumental music, opera, sacred music, pop music and (even) advertising jingles.

Note: Heath Lees is standing in for Peter Warwick who was to give a lecture entitled To the Far Side of the World: Captain Cook and the Enlightenment. Illness has prevented Peter Warwick from travelling to Australia.

Visitors are very welcome. As the lecture starts at 7.30pm sharp, it is recommended that visitors arrive before 7.15pm.