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A Future for Music?
Royal Philharmonic Society Lectures examine the future of classical music in a high profile public forum. Often controversial and always engaging, speakers have included composers, conductors, broadcasters, impresario, scientists and critics. What must be done to ensure that classical music survives the 21st Century?
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May 31Thu
Music of Today: Gérard Grisey
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May 31Thu
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Jun 28Thu
Music of Today: Young Composers Academy
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Jun 28Thu
Battle of Ideas - Can we measure the value of the arts?
High-level, thought-provoking, public debate organised by the Institute of Ideas, hosted by the Royal College of Art
2011 RPS Partner Debate: From the sublime to the ridiculous: can we measure the value of the arts?
29 October 10.30am until 12.00pm, Students’ Union Provocation Zone, Royal College of Art, London
Why do we value art? For Hegel, its value was as an expression of truth, beauty and the sensuousness of the human spirit. But any aesthetic definition, based on a conception of artistic excellence, raises the further question of what artistic excellence is. Is it possible to apply more objective measures of value to the arts?
Panel Members
Dr Tiffany Jenkins
arts and society director, Institute of Ideas; author, Contesting Human Remains in Museum Collections: the crisis of cultural authority
Dr Dave O’Brien
lecturer and researcher on UK cultural policy and public administration, City University London; author, Measuring the value of culture: a report to DCMS
Graham Sheffield CBE
director, arts, British Council
Dr Paul Thompson
rector and vice-provost, Royal College of Art
Harry Witchel
discipline leader, physiology, Brighton and Sussex Medical School; author, You Are What You Hear
Chair
Alan Miller
co-director, NY Salon; co-founder, London’s Truman Brewery
The debate is produced by Tom Hutchinson for the Royal Philharmonic Society and Tiffany Jenkins for the Institute of Ideas.
Read Tom Hutchinson’s Indepdendent blog on the debate
