Musical Paintbrushes: Surrealism

Throughout music history, music and art have been often intertwined in ways that have created some of the greatest masterpieces in Western Music. How have composers used art as inspiration? And how did such composers transform musical language to replicate artistic styles musically? This course will focus primarily on surrealism as we not only discuss the paintings of surrealist artists such as Salvador Dali but also the musical language of surrealist composers including Erik Satie and George Antheil. This lecture is also available virtually. “By far this presentation was one of the best I ever attended at Olli Boca.” – OLLI Patron