Three Talks: Art, Artists and Context 

with Peter Skoggard

Topic:  The Fugue
Fall 2012:  Thursday, November 15, 2012.  7:30pm

The Fugue is the highest art form in music.  It's dazzling complexity speaks to our very soul.  We will briefly explore links to Medieval and Renaissance cosmology and look at the fugue from its early German prototypes.  We will trace the fugue through the personal approaches of great masters of music: Bach, Handel, Mozart, Beethoven, Brahms, Rachmaninoff, Ravel and Britten.
$6 per person.

Topic:  French Art & Politics in the Turbulent Years, 1780-1820
Winter 2013 postponed -- New date to be announced 

Jacques-Louis David was born and started painting during the Ancient Regime, already fermenting an artistic revolution.  Then he was at the very heart of the French Revolution.  He was a close friend of Robespierre's through the Reign of Terror, yet incredibly he survived the guillotine himself to become a Napoleon's court painter!  Hear and see this amazing part of history through his eyes.  A generation later, Theodore Gerricault rocked Restoration France with his The Raft of the Medusa.  Hear the whole remarkable story behind this painting. 
$6 per person.

The Poetry of John Donne
Spring 2013: Thursday, April 11, 2013.  7:30pm

What does the poetry of John Doone tell us about his life and his spiritual growth?  Follow the life through his poetry, from a young ambitious rake and secret Catholic who then throws in his whole career for the love of a single woman, and finally dies the devout Anglican and Dean of St. Pauls.
$6 per person.

Held at:  The Elora Centre for the Arts,
75 Melville Street, Elora, ON N0B 1S0
info@eloracentreforthearts.ca
519-846-9698