Of Rage and Remembrance | Cara Stroud
Special | 2mVideo has Closed Captions
Michigan State University's Cara Stroud analyzes John Corigliano’s Of Rage and Remembrance
Music speaks in ways words can’t. Michigan State University Educator Cara Stroud delves into John Corigliano’s symphony no 1 “Of Rage and Remembrance”. Written for his friends and colleagues who died during the AIDs epidemic of the 1980’s and 90’s the piece conveys the emotions felt by the composer during that time of crisis.
Problems with Closed Captions? Closed Captioning Feedback
Problems with Closed Captions? Closed Captioning Feedback
Music for Social Justice is a local public television program presented by WKAR
Supported in part by
MSU Federal Credit Union
Michigan State University Office for Institutional Diversity and Inclusion
Of Rage and Remembrance | Cara Stroud
Special | 2mVideo has Closed Captions
Music speaks in ways words can’t. Michigan State University Educator Cara Stroud delves into John Corigliano’s symphony no 1 “Of Rage and Remembrance”. Written for his friends and colleagues who died during the AIDs epidemic of the 1980’s and 90’s the piece conveys the emotions felt by the composer during that time of crisis.
Problems with Closed Captions? Closed Captioning Feedback
How to Watch Music for Social Justice
Music for Social Justice is available to stream on pbs.org and the free PBS App, available on iPhone, Apple TV, Android TV, Android smartphones, Amazon Fire TV, Amazon Fire Tablet, Roku, Samsung Smart TV, and Vizio.
Providing Support for PBS.org
Learn Moreabout PBS online sponsorshipJohn Coriglianos first Symphony really touches on some tough, tough subjects.
And music speaks to that in a way that words just don't.
I have lived with this piece for a while now and it still moves me to tears every time I listen to it.
Corigliano wrote it dedicated to his friends and colleagues struggling with and dying in the midst of the AIDS crisis.
He paints the path of working through these struggles in the symphony.
In the first movement, he scores a scream just like raw rage.
In the second movement, we hear a tarantella theme that was actually from one of Corigliano's earlier pieces that he dedicated to one of his friends.
It's now recast as a portrait of that same friend's struggles with AIDS dementia.
The third movement, that's the movement where the names of Corigliano's friends are written into the score.
So anybody who saw the score to the symphony knew that it was a memorial to many people.
The sense at the end of the piece that this will be resolved someday is a really powerful message because some of the same struggles for representation are happening with LGBTQ musicians.
So it's important to make sure that those voices are raised up.
Music for Social Justice is a local public television program presented by WKAR
Supported in part by
MSU Federal Credit Union
Michigan State University Office for Institutional Diversity and Inclusion