Session Ten

Music and Nationalism: The Rise of Cultural and Ethnic Identity in Classical Symphonic Music

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Thursdays, April 12, 19, 26, and May 3
10:00 - Noon
Parkview Church
Registration Deadline: April 10
Class Limit: 100

Much of Western classical music has its style and traditions rooted in musical elements associated with specific countries and ethnicities. Its latent use as a tool of propaganda to promote colonialism or political ideology is a consistent trend mirrored throughout its history. Musical nationalism and its political relationships will be explored though lecture, discussion, and recording in four sessions:

1. Baroque: England, France, Germany, and Italy.
2. Romanticism: Russia, England, Czechoslovakia, and Scandinavia.
3. Twentieth Century: Rise of the Super Powers—USSR and the United States.
4. Ultranationalism: How music was used as a tool of propaganda from WWII through the Cold War and to the present day.

INSTRUCTOR: Maestro Timothy Hankewich is music director of Orchestra Iowa and has previously served on the conducting staffs of the Kansas City, Oregon, and Indianapolis Symphonies. He received his Bachelor of Music and Masters of Music degrees from the University of Alberta, Canada, in piano performance and choral conducting respectively, and is a graduate of Indiana University, where he earned a Doctor of Music in orchestral conducting.