On June 30, 2007 an audience of choral conductors, singers, scholars and patrons convened at the Festival 500 Choral Symposium held at Memorial University, St. John's, NL, CA for a presentation titled "Multi-Sensory Choral Music" given by Mark Doerries. The paper discussed the use of visual elements, particularly colored light, in the compositions of Schoenberg, Scriabin, Thomas Wilfred and Wassily Kandinsky as a means to rediscover the cultural relevancy of classical choral music. A multi-sensory choral production in the 2006 Philadelphia Fringe Festival titled Luminescence: Experiments in Visual Acoustics was examined as a model for holistic and interdisciplinary approaches to performing classical music. Musicians voiced their opinions regarding extra-musical elements in the classical music concert environment in the discussion that followed.
If you were present at the Festival 500 Choral Symposium please share your thoughts here!
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Great work.
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