Free public lecture by Professor Milton Mermikides, the Gresham Professor of Music, on why music is universally embraced, part of Gresham College's 'The Mysteries of Music' series.
Professor Milton Mermikides is at LSO St Luke's on Wednesday 21 October, with a lecture titled Why Is There Music? It's part of Gresham College's The Mysteries of Music series, and the whole thing runs from 6pm to 7pm.
Mermikides is the Gresham Professor of Music, and he's a bit of a polymath: composer, guitarist, technologist, academic and educator across a wide range of styles, and he's worked with artists and scientists alike. That mix comes through in the lecture, which pulls from neuroscience, philosophy, psychology and anthropology to ask why music — an activity shared by every culture — is so universally embraced, and how patterns in the air can convey the full range of human emotions, from heartache to humour.
The venue is LSO St Luke's at 161 Old Street, EC1V 9NG. It's a deconsecrated Anglican church that's been a music centre run by the London Symphony Orchestra since 2003, home to their learning and community programme LSO Discovery. It's a Grade I-listed space that blends 18th-century architecture with a contemporary interior, so it's a proper room for a talk about music.
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It's a free public lecture, part of Gresham College's long tradition of offering them for over 400 years thanks to the generosity of its supporters. It runs from 6pm to 7pm on Wednesday 21 October at LSO St Luke's, 161 Old Street, London EC1V 9NG.
