Degas's Dances
submitted by Marvin's Underground Evening Lectures
on 10/10/18
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March 4, 2017 J. Paul Getty Museum, The Getty Center, Los Angeles, California Ukrainian-born pianist Inna Faliks, professor of piano at the UCLA Herb Alpert School of Music, joins art historians Richard Kendall and Jill Devonyar, authors of Degas and the Dance, to explore Edgar Degas's complex relationships with music, musicians, and dance. Discover the artist's lifelong interest in music, and his interactions with musicians in Paris, through an evening of words and performance inspired by Degas. Faliks performs portions of Maurice Ravel’s Gaspar de la Nuit, “February” and “November” from Tchaikovsky’s Seasons, and Franz Lizst’s Mephisto Waltz #1. Find out what's on now at the Getty: www.getty.edu/360/ #gettytalks
