I taught a course on music’s role in totalitarian political systems such as Stalinist Russia, Nazi Germany, the GDR, Hungary, China at the time of the Cultural Revolution, and North Korea in the 1970s. This course inspired my Ted talk, which is about totalitarianism, freedom, music, and compassion and how we should relate them in our effort to resist the siren song of political movements that aim to take away our freedom. My name is Klára Móricz and I am a professor of music at Amherst College. My research concerns music history, especially in the first half of the twentieth century. I have written two books, one on Jewish identities in twentieth-century music (University of California Press, 2008) and one on Russian composers and their experience of exile in interwar Paris (University of California press, forthcoming). I edited the score of Béla Bartók’s Concerto for Orchestra, for the Béla Bartók Complete Critical Edition (2018), and co-edited a volume of essays on the Russian composer Arthur Vincent Lourié (Oxford University Press, 2013). At Amherst I teach classes on music theory, including a seminar on the poetic interpretation of nineteenth-century music and on topics related to the history of classical music. This talk was given at a TEDx event using the TED conference format but independently organized by a local community. Learn more at https://www.ted.com/tedx
Safeguarding Freedom | Klara Moricz | TEDxAmherstCollege
13. Dezember 2019 10:19
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