for televising musical performances
A new technique for televising classical concerts that is ,designed to convey a greater sense of the music's spiritual meaning will be the focus of a symposium being held at Yale on Wednesday, April 9.
Titled "Music and Spirit Through the Medium of Television," the symposium will be held at 5 p.m. at the Yale University Art Gallery (enter on High Street). It is free and open to the public. The event is sponsored by the Yale Chaplain's office, the School of Music and Trumbull College.
Traditionally, classical music concerts have been televised using an approach that presents the performance as it is seen by the audience in attendance. Documentary films on music, on the other hand, show short clips of performances or use music to underlie visuals interspersed with biographical and other storytelling elements.
The Yale symposium will focus on a third technique developed by symphony conductor and television artistic director Gilbert Levine '72 M.A. This approach seeks to mirror the composer's creative intent by using visual and aural interstitial material to portray the spiritual themes underlying the musical works presented. Levine first used this technique for "A Musical Offering from the Vatican" in 1988, which he conducted, and has since employed it in other televised papal and Judeo-Christian concerts.
Levine, who will speak at the symposium about his experience with this technique, has led concerts and recordings with leading orchestras throughout the world. His numerous concert programs on PBS have featured such orchestras as the London Philharmonic, the Philharmonic Orchestra and the Dresden Staatskapelle. In 1994, he was knighted by Pope John Paul II, the highest pontifical honor accorded to a non-ecclesiastical musician since Mozart. Levine has taught "The Art of Conducting" in the Yale College Seminar Program and has been an associate fellow of Trumbull College since 1986.
Other featured speakers at the symposium will be Lothar Mattner, a leading producer of concerts and films for West German Television, and Peter Rosen, an Emmy- and Peabody-award winning PBS producer and director.
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