Raphael’s Music: From Urbino to Rome
Wednesday, July 29 | 7:00pm EDT
a Zoom webinar
with
DR. ROBERT KENDRICK
William Colvin Professor in Music, Romance Languages and Literatures, and the College
University of Chicago
Registration Required
On April 6, 1520, Raffaello Sanzio, one of the geniuses of the Renaissance, passed away in Rome. Five hundred years later, the force of one of the most creative artists of all time challenges the global crisis caused by Covid-19: as we await for cultural venues to open their doors again so we can view the art behind them in person, the network of Italian Cultural Institutes (IIC) in the US and Canada will celebrate the Master through online multimedia initiatives. In the coming months, a live Zoom conference series featuring some of the most important experts on Raphael, live concerts, and Renaissance cooking webinars will be available to all members and friends of the IICs in North America.
Raphael’s Music: From Urbino to Rome
Although music does not play such a prominent role in Raphael’s output as in, for instance, Titian or Caravaggio, still he was born and worked in very musical places: Urbino and Rome. This talk looks at the music that he might have heard and that might have sounded around him, both in the Marche region and in the Eternal City.
This event is organized by the Istituto Italiano di Cultura Chicago in collaboration with Istituto Italiano di Cultura Los Angeles, Montreal, New York, San Francisco, Toronto & Washington D.C.
Robert L. Kendrick works largely in early modern music and culture, with additional interests in Latin American music, historical anthropology, traditional Mediterranean polyphony, music and commemoration, and the visual arts. His most recent book is Singing Jeremiah: Music and Meaning in Holy Week (Indiana UP, 2014), and recent graduate seminars include: ‘European Sacred Music Abroad, 1550-1730’; ‘Senecan Drama, Stoicism, and Baroque Opera’ (co-taught)’; and ‘Music and Images in Early Modern Europe’. He has taught on the Rome and Vienna programs of the Civilization Core, as well as undergraduate ethnomusicology. In 2006 he won a Graduate Teaching Award. At Chicago he is term faculty for the Department of Romance Languages and Literatures (Italian, French, Spanish, Catalan), and affiliated with the Center for Gender Studies, and the Center for Latin American Studies. A member of Milan’s Accademia Ambrosiana, Kendrick received his Ph.D. (musicology) and M.A. (ethnomusicology) from New York University, after a B.A. from the University of Pennsylvania, and he is a former Junior Fellow at the Harvard Society of Fellows. A former autoworker and union activist, he is keenly interested in the issues around grad student, adjunct, and contingent-faculty labour in academia.