How to Listen to Classical Music
Enhancing your Understanding and Appreciation
an interactive workshop
Tuesday 24 June 2025
785 Chemin de Peire Luche, 06330 Roquefort Les Pins
Understanding Classical music requires certain perceptual skills - techniques for listening out for key elements that enable us to understand what the composers were trying to communicate. Once acquired, these skills can greatly enhance our understanding and appreciation of music.
Aaron Copland believed that there are three levels of listening to music: the sensuous plane, the expressive plane, and the musical plane. There are also the fascinating aspects of interpretation, and the information behind each composition: the composer's era, geographical location, and personal story, the structure of the work, and why it was composed.
Brief Résumé: Elizabeth Handley 2025
Accredited lecturer with The Arts Society, UK (formerly NADFAS), UCT Summer School lecturer.
Before transferring to Sweden in 2010, Elizabeth played the harpsichord and flute in Baroque ensembles and sang in the Symphony Choir of Johannesburg.
She was a radio programme compiler and music producer at the SABC, and then impresario’s assistant organising concert tours for overseas artists throughout Southern Africa. She also presented pre-concert talks for the Johannesburg Philharmonic Orchestra.
For many years she has been joyfully teaching adults music and art history and appreciation in SA, and more recently in Stockholm, London and Milan. She also teaches at summer schools in Cape Town and the UK.
She loves travelling, painting, reading, needlework, and creative writing, and gives talks on cruise ships.
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Ticket €5 members
*Closing date for registration is 22 June 2025
(Registration not fully paid by closing date will be cancelled and a person on the waiting list will be offered your place.
Registration cancelled AFTER the closing date will not be refunded.)
If you need more info, please contact:
Anne Kennedy
06 40 19 56 35
annegkennedy@gmail.com
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