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A Word In Your Ear
It can be an awful moment when someone asks you what you thought of a concert or why you like the latest CD you have been listening to. You know inside why you like it, how it makes you feel, but to put that into words can be terribly difficult. How do you find the right words to describe your attraction to a piece of music? And anyhow, isn't it embarrassing to communicate your thoughts and feelings in this way?
To explore this relationship between music and language, this summer the Royal Philharmonic Society is working with the Royal Holloway University creative writing department to offer their writers the chance to create new pieces of writing from listening to classical music. The project is led by Professor Jo Shapcott and RPS Project Co-ordinator Tom Hutchinson.
Recently fourteen masters students put pen to paper and wrote a mixture of short prose pieces and poems in response to listening to mystery pieces of music and attending concerts. These will be available to read on the RPS website from the autumn.
This collaboration is an extension of work developed through Hear Here! - the Royal Philharmonic Society’s and Classic FM’s two year project exploring listening – and will continue as a strand of the RPS’s creative work in championing classical music.
