Contemplating Crisis: Music in Times of Covid-19 (and Beyond)

27 November 2023, 15:00 (Local Prague Time)

Institute of Art History, Czech Academy of Sciences

Musicological Library, Puškinovo náměstí 9, 16000 Praha-6 / ZOOM

Entry: Free

Register here by 23 November 2023: bit.ly/46OkNwH

I am delighted to invite you to a multifaceted event contemplating challenges and chances of music and musical life in times of crisis. Crisis, here, is understood in its broadest possible sense, and the panel discussion will draw on questions regarding individual and public health, social opportunities for musical practitioners and audiences, pandemic precarity and creative practice, and post-pandemic social security in the arts.

While the first part of the afternoon will be focused on the arts during Covid-19 and after, the concert will feature works from the nineteenth, twentieth, and twenty-first centuries (including some world premieres!).

15:00 Welcome

15:15 Talk

Professor Rosie Perkins (Chair of Music, Health, and Social Science, Centre for Performance Science, Royal College of Music, London)

‘The Arts and Wellbeing during and after Covid-19: Perspectives on Social Connectedness and the Future of the Cultural Workforce’

15:45 Panel discussion

Sylvie Bodorová (Composer, Prague)

Barbora de Nunes-Cambraia (Mezzo-Soprano/Falcon, Prague)

Professor Rosie Perkins (Chair of Music, Health, and Social Science, Centre for Performance Science, Royal College of Music, London)

16:45–18:00 Break and opportunities for informal exchange

18:00–19:30 Concert: “Cesty / Paths”

Vanda Šípová (Soprano)

Barbora de Nunes-Cambraia (Mezzo-Soprano/Falcon)

Radka Dědičová (Piano)

The concert programme features pieces by Marianne Czegka (1786–1849), Julie von Webenau (1813–1887), Vítězslava Kaprálová (1915–1940), Vilma von Webenau (1875–1953), and Sylvie Bodorová (*1954).

This event is funded by the Czech Academy of Sciences funding scheme Strategy AV21 (Programme: ‘Resilient Society in the Twenty-First Century’).