This event is part of 'Around Twilight Lecture Demonstration' Series.
這場講座為「薄暮樂敘」示範講座活動之一

(In Cantonese 粵語主講)

Olivier Messiaen's 1944 Vingt regards sur l'Enfant-Jésus is a classic in the 20th-century piano solo repertoire. Cast in twenty contemplations on the infant Jesus, the epic set represents a perfect ground for understanding Messiaen's compositional techniques. This lecture-demonstration will focus on the Thème de Dieu (Theme of God), one of the three distinctive themes around which Vingt regards sur l'Enfant-Jésus is constructed. Talented local young pianist Shelley Ng will lead audience into a glimpse of this tour-de-force against a background of the cycle's indebtedness to numerology, Catholic symbolism, Indian and Greek rhythms, while exploring Messiaen's idiosyncratic musical language.