Athenaeum Music & Arts Library and Camarada Art Outreach:

Wassily Kandinsky, Composition No 4, 1911

Journey through Modern Art & Music

Travel through time and space and follow iconic images and melodies of modern art and music from the

invention of photography to Impressionism, Expressionism and the major art movements of the 20th century

through to Conceptual art. Debussy’s Syrinx for flute will accompany Impressionist paintings by Monet.

Wassily Kandinsky’s abstract Compositions were inspired by Arnold Schoenberg’s music, such as Pierrot

Lunaire and students will be able to see and hear both together. The successive modern art movements

increasingly developed a tendency towards abstraction and finally abandoned the physical art object all

together in favor of conceptual art. Artists such as Vincent van Gogh, Paul Cézanne, Edvard Munch,

Salvador Dali, Jackson Pollock, Andy Warhol, and finally Ed Ruscha, are all introduced. The program

culminates in an interactive project accompanied by a conceptual flute composition by Edgard Varèse:

Density 21.5 is a piece of music for solo flute written in 1936 and revised in 1946. The piece was composed

at the request of Georges Barrère for the premiere of his platinum flute, the density of platinum being close

to 21.5 grams per cubic centimeter.

The program is a collaboration between the Athenaeum Music & Arts Library and Camarada, Chamber

Music Ensemble, presented by Beth Ross Buckley, Artistic Director of the Camarada Chamber Music

Ensemble and Cornelia Feye, School of the Arts and Arts Education Director at the Athenaeum Music &

Arts Library. It is free, lasts one hour and is appropriate for Elementary, Middle, or High School students.

For information and to schedule a presentation please contact Cornelia Feye at

cfeye@ljathenaeum.org 858-454-5872 or Beth Ross Buckley at bethrossbuckley@gmail.com