CANCELLED: Preconcert Talk | Timothy Barringer

Event time: 
Sunday, March 8, 2020 - 11:00am
Location: 
Sheffield-Sterling-Strathcona Hall (SSS) See map
1 Prospect Street
New Haven, CT 06511
Admission: 
Free; no tickets or registration
Open to: 
General Public
Event description: 

The English Musical Splendor concert tour featuring the Yale Philharmonia, Yale Schola Cantorum, and the Bach Choir, London has been cancelled due to concerns related to COVID-19.

This cancellation includes performances scheduled for March 8–14 in New Haven, Boston, New York City, Philadelphia, and Washington D.C.

 

We regret any inconvenience this might cause concertgoers.

Praise ye the God of Gold: A Cultural History of Walton’s Belshazzar’s Feast

Preconcert talk for The Bach Choir, Yale Schola Cantorum, and Yale Philarmonia’s performance of Belshazzar’s Feast at 4PM.

Tim Barringer is Paul Mellon Professor of the History of Art. He specializes in the eighteenth-, nineteenth- and twentieth-century art of Britain and the British Empire, nineteenth-century American and German art and museum studies. Following positions at the Victoria and Albert Museum, the Universities of London and Birmingham in Great Britain, he came to Yale in 1998. In 2013-14 Tim Barringer held a J. Clawson Mills Fellowship at the Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York.

His books include ‘Reading the Pre-Raphaelites’ (Yale, 1998), ‘Men at Work: Art and Labour in Victorian Britain’ (Yale, 2005) ‘Opulence and Anxiety’ (2007), catalogue for an exhibition at Compton Verney, ‘Before and After Modernism’ (Central St Martins, 2010) and ‘David Hockney: 82 Portraits and 1 Still Life (Royal Academy, 2016). In 2018, a new collection of essays ‘Victorian Jamaica’ (co-edited with Wayne Modest) was published by Duke University Press.