Award-winning composer Jonathan Dove talks to Dr Kate Kennedy about the relationship of his music to war and remembrance.
Music and Memory: Jonathan Dove in Conversation with Kate Kennedy
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Winner of the 2008 Ivor Novello Award for classical music, Jonathan Dove has written works commemorating armed conflict (In Damascus and For An Unknown Soldier) and works invoking collective memory more broadly, as in his TV opera When She Died..., a reflection on the death of Princess Diana.
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Post-War: Commemoration, Reconstruction, Reconciliation is a Mellon-Sawyer Seminar Series running in 2017-18 at the University of Oxford and Oxford Brookes University. It brings together academics from many different fields, politicians and leading figures from cultural policy and the charitable sector. They are joined by novelists, poets, artists and musicians whose work has marked war in some way. The Series is divided into three strands - Textual, Monumental, and Aural Commemoration - and...
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