LEARN ABOUT MUSICAL INFLUENCES BETWEEN AMERICA AND EUPOPE AT JULY MUSIC LECTURES SPONSORED BY BAY-ATLANTIC SYMPHONY
BRIDGETON, NJ—Learn about the musical influences back and forth between America and Europe at the July installment of the summer series of free music lectures by Paul M. Somers, sponsored by the Bay-Atlantic Symphony. on Thursday, July 7, from 6:30 to 8 p.m. at the Margate Public Library, Bloom Pavilion 8100 Atlantic Ave., Margate, NJ and on Thursday, July 14, from 7 to 8:30 p.m., at the Avalon Public Library, 235 32nd St., Avalon.
Entitled “Across the Pond” the lectures will show Europe’s influences on the musical idiom of composers from this country and how American culture and lore influenced the music of European composers. The lectures will serve as a pre-concert talk for the Bay-Atlantic Symphony concert on Saturday, July 16, at the Avalon Free Public Library.
Future lectures, all on Thursday nights at 6:30 p.m. in Margate and 7 p.m. in Avalon, will explore what happens when a composer leaves home for a very different place on August 18 (Margate) and 25 (Avalon), and how composers musically depict the seasons of the year on September 1 (Margate) and 8 (Avalon).
This series is in addition to the monthly music lectures series, sponsored by the Symphony and given by Somers, which runs from September through May at the Monroe Township Library in Williamstown, Ocean City Public Library, Millville Public Library, and the Margate Public Library.
Somers is a composer, performer, founder of Maurice River Music, was for 25 years the harpsichordist for the Virtuoso Strings of New York, and was a reviewer for the Star-Ledger.
The lectures are co-sponsored by the libraries in which they given.
For further information, call the Bay-Atlantic Symphony at (856) 451-1169, or Somers at Maurice River Music at (856) 506-0580. For the Margate series, you can also call the Margate Public Library at (609) 822-4700. For the Avalon series, you can also call the Avalon Free Public Library at (609) 967-7155.