ToledoSymphony.com<\/a>.<\/p>\nFour free, public events remain that are part of the festival. Listed by date, they are:<\/p>\n
\u2022 Tuesday, Oct. 30 \u2014 \u201cFighting and Embracing Evil Empires: Goethe\u2019s Egmont and Faust\u201d with Dr. Edmund B. Lingan, UT assistant professor of theatre, at 7 p.m. Libbey Hall. Just in time for Halloween, Lingan will invoke demonic realms and legends of a primordial occult religion in this exploration of two of Goethe\u2019s plays, \u201cEgmont\u201d and \u201c\u2026Faust Part I.\u201d The theatre historian and critic will show that these plays intuit the existence of a complex and disturbing realm of spirits, demons and deities.<\/p>\n
\u2022 Friday, Nov. 2 \u2014 \u201cScoring Evil: Penderecki and Lynch\u2019s \u2018Inland Empire\u2019\u201d with Dr. Jeanne Kusina, UT coordinator of participatory learning and research, and a visiting faculty member in the UT departments of Philosophy and Women\u2019s and Gender Studies, at 7 p.m. in the Center for the Visual Arts Haigh Auditorium on UT\u2019s Toledo Museum of Art Campus. Director David Lynch has graciously granted permission for this rare public screening and discussion of \u201cInland Empire.\u201d The story of an actress who enters into a terrifying psychological underworld as she increasingly identifies with the character she portrays, this challenging film can be described as a lurid, surreal journey down the rabbit hole. Film scholar Kusina will introduce the movie with a presentation on the film\u2019s musical score, which features work by Polish composer Krzysztof Penderecki, whose early avant-garde music has been featured in a number of films as a means to evoke unspeakable horror. Employing transcendental visual imagery and aural effects, \u201cInland Empire\u201d provides a unique passageway into a chilling, at times haunting, consideration of the aesthetics of evil.<\/p>\n
\u2022 Tuesday, Nov. 6 \u2014 \u201cThe Faustian Bargain and Other Devilish Deals\u201d with Dr. Daniel Compora, UT associate professor of English, at 7 p.m. Libbey Hall, 7 p.m. This lecture will explore different folk variations of the Faustian bargain \u2014 the selling of one\u2019s soul to the devil. The theme is prevalent in Western culture, and a number of people in literature and music allegedly have entered into such pacts. In particular, the legend of blues musician Robert Johnson and his deal at the crossroads will be examined.<\/p>\n
\u2022 Tuesday, Nov. 13 \u2014 \u201cRecruiting the Folk: Verbunkos, Gypsies and Temptation in Stravinsky\u2019s \u2018The Soldier\u2019s Tale\u2019\u201d with Dr. Christopher Williams, UT visiting assistant professor of music at 7 p.m. in Libbey Hall. Although Stravinsky frequently boasted of the originality of his music, its utter independence from folk traditions or stylistic predecessors, the most radical features of his style \u2014 including its spasmodically shifting meters and acidic harmonic textures \u2014 nevertheless remain rooted in Eastern European and Russian folk music traditions. This is as true for his Russian folk tale with music, \u201cThe Soldier\u2019s Tale,\u201d as it is for the more obviously revolutionary \u201cThe Rite of Spring.\u201d In this 1918 theater piece, the various functions and aspects of the soldier\u2019s character are played out through musical folk references, especially to \u201crecruiting songs\u201d or \u201cVerbunkos,\u201d that were common to countryside military recruiting in Hungary and Russia in the 19th century, then popularized and further embroidered by gypsy musicians. Accordingly, \u201cThe Soldier\u2019s Tale,\u201d while spinning a classic yarn about the temptations of a simple everyman at the hands of the devil, also provides a prismatic reflection of Stravinsky\u2019s most modernistic concerns as a composer and organic ties to popular folk tradition. This talk will place \u201cThe Soldier\u2019s Tale\u201d in a broader context of Stravinsky\u2019s connections to folk music, rural recruitment and military culture on the Russian\/Austrian border, and stories of diabolic temptation.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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<\/a>This arts and humanities collaboration is the second of its kind between the symphony and the college. In April, the Wartime Reflections Festival was presented.<\/p>\n