The idea of combining music and medicine into the “Sounds & Science” – scientific concert series started in 2008, when the Austrian violinist Rainer Honeck played Bach’s Chaconne in d-minor directly before a keynote lecture, held by Nobel laureate Peter Doherty, at the Austrian Society of Allergology and Immunology’s yearly meeting in Vienna. The experience at that lecture was remarkable, truly a special moment. “Sounds & Science” was then taken a step further by bringing several concepts together: Anton Neumayr’s medical histories of composers, John Brockman’s idea of a “Third Culture” (very broadly speaking: combining humanities and science), and finally, our perception that science deserves a “Red Carpet” to walk on, in front of an audience. Attendees of the “Sounds & Science” series have also described that music opens the mind, and enables a better understanding of concepts in life and thereby science in general. On a typical concert/lecture, we start with a chamber music piece, continue with the pathobiography of the composer, go back to the music, and then introduce our main speaker, whose talk should be genuinely understandable to a broad, not necessarily scientifically trained audience. In the second half, we usually try to present a musical climax. One prerequisite that “Sounds & Science” stands for, is the outstanding quality of the principal musicians, and of the main speakers. Our previous concerts/lectures have so far covered several aspects of medicine like “Music & Cancer” (Debussy, Brahms, Schumann), “Music and Heart” (Bruckner, Mahler, Wagner), and “Music and Diabetes” (Bach, Ysaÿe, Puccini). For many individuals who have combined music and medicine or music and science inside of their own lives and biographies, the experience of a cross-connection between sounds and science is quite familiar. But there is also this “fun” aspect of sharing and participating, and at the “Sounds & Science” events, we usually try to ensure that the event location can easily be turned into a meeting place.
CHRISTOPH POPPEN VIOLIN
MANFRED HECKING DOUBLE BASS
SILKE AVENHAUS PIANO
ANA ZÃO PIANO
WOLFGANG MASTNAK MUSIC EDUCATION
ANA ZÃO ARTS MEDICINE
Tuesday, 5th July 2022, 19:00
Salão Nobre da Câmara Municipal de Castelo de Vide
Christoph Poppen, Manfred Hecking, Silke Avenhaus
W.A. Mozart, Piano Trio B Flat Major, KV 502, 1st Movement - Allegro
Manfred Hecking, Wolfgang Mastnak, Ana Zão
About Music & Learning
Christoph Poppen, Silke Avenhaus
W.A. Mozart, from Violin Sonata e-minor KV 304, 1st Movement - Allegro
Wolfgang Mastnak
Learning and Experiencing Music: Aesthetic and Neuroscientific Perspectives (music educational view)
Christoph Poppen, Silke Avenhaus
M. Ravel, from Violin sonata: 2nd Movement - Blues
Manfred Hecking, Wolfgang Mastnak, Ana Zão
Mozart and Ravel
Silke Avenhaus, Ana Zão
M. Ravel, from Ma Mère l´Oye, 3rd Movement Laideronnette, Impératrice des Pagodes
Ana Zão
Learning and Experiencing Music: Aesthetic and Neuroscientific Perspectives (medical view)
Christoph Poppen, Manfred Hecking, Silke Avenhaus, Ana Zão, Wolfgang Mastnak & Audience
W. A. Mozart, Ave verum corpus KV 618 and Piano Trio C-Major KV 548, 3rd Movement Allegro.