A strong supporter of modern music, Paul Collaer, musicologist and musician, spent a considerable span of his professional life giving lecture-recitals on the works of his contemporaries. He created the Pro Arte concerts in Brussels to further promote the music he dedicated so much to, was a director of Belgian Radio, and was acquainted with […]
When creating any kind of social group, the members must decide who or what is included and excluded. If everyone was included in a group, there would be no sense of cohesiveness or social connection, the act of defining a community is the same as defining what the community is not. Creating distinctions between groups […]
Understanding musical identity is a fraught conversation between idealized perceptions about shared values, and constructed sonic markers interpreted by the whims of composers, musicians, writers, and the public. For French musical figures and writes between 1870 and 1920, some major forces at play in these conversations were lingering tensions with the German empire, and eventually […]