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An NCPA Presentation

Tchaikovsky: Symphony No. 4

In this series of talks on Western classical music, Dr. Cavas Bilimoria takes listeners through musical concepts, the lives of composers and their famous works, interspersed with examples from recorded music. The first talk this month focuses on Tchaikovsky’s Symphony No. 4.

After having composed three relatively small-scale symphonies, Tchaikovsky’s Fourth was a breakthrough work. It was big, heroic and synthesised many of the stylistic and expressive elements closest to his heart—his love for Beethoven’s music, for dance music and folk music, for the Russian countryside and people and the extremes of joy and angst so intrinsic to his expressive ‘voice’.

Entry free on a first come, first served basis.