A Musical Carnage: On Music in War and War in Music
War was and is not a quiet affair, and instruments have always been part of the sonic arsenal alongside clanging and thundering weapons. But how and why have composers transformed this noise into music? How did the march, as a musical genre, become a symbol of warfare itself? And how can music also take a critical stance on war? All of this will be brought to life through examples spanning several centuries.
Speaker: Benjamin T. Hilger (M.A.) studied musicology, German language and literature, and history in Cologne; he regularly writes program notes and works as a freelance piano teacher in Bonn.
