Architecture Archives an exclusive Classical Music e-Magazine Wed, 24 Dec 2025 13:12:50 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.8.2 Musicians and Artists: Matheson and Chagall and Matisse https://interlude.hk/musicians-and-artists-matheson-and-chagall-and-matisse/ https://interlude.hk/musicians-and-artists-matheson-and-chagall-and-matisse/#comments Fri, 26 Dec 2025 16:45:11 +0000 https://interlude.hk/?p=143117 Inspiration Behind James Matheson’s Windows If you seek out the Union Church of Pocantico Hills in New York’s Hudson Valley, you’ll find a little gem. From the outside, it looks like a simple stone country church. When you get inside,

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]]> https://interlude.hk/musicians-and-artists-matheson-and-chagall-and-matisse/feed/ 1 The Art of the Concert Hall: Angelika Kauffmann Hall in Schwarzenberg https://interlude.hk/the-art-of-the-concert-hall-angelika-kauffmann-hall-in-schwarzenberg/ https://interlude.hk/the-art-of-the-concert-hall-angelika-kauffmann-hall-in-schwarzenberg/#respond Mon, 23 Jun 2025 16:23:01 +0000 https://interlude.hk/?p=137748 The Swiss Neoclassical painter Angelika Kauffmann (1741–1807) made her career in London and Rome in the field of history painting, portraiture, landscape painting, and decorative painting. Her father, Joseph Johann Kauffmann, was an Austrian muralist and painter and he trained

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]]> https://interlude.hk/the-art-of-the-concert-hall-angelika-kauffmann-hall-in-schwarzenberg/feed/ 0 Musicians and Artists: Daugherty and Roebling https://interlude.hk/musicians-and-artists-daugherty-and-roebling/ https://interlude.hk/musicians-and-artists-daugherty-and-roebling/#respond Mon, 07 Apr 2025 16:23:56 +0000 https://interlude.hk/?p=135807 Michael Daugherty: Brooklyn Bridge American composer Michael Daugherty was inspired by one of the great constructions of New York City to create his work for clarinet and orchestra. Brooklyn Bridge (2005) is a musical view of the bridge from the

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]]> https://interlude.hk/musicians-and-artists-daugherty-and-roebling/feed/ 0 Musicians and Artists: Byström and Kusama https://interlude.hk/musicians-and-artists-bystrom-and-kusama/ https://interlude.hk/musicians-and-artists-bystrom-and-kusama/#respond Wed, 29 Jan 2025 16:14:59 +0000 https://interlude.hk/?p=134143 Britta Byström: Infinite Rooms Japanese artist Yayoi Kusama (b. 1929) has taken the idea of dots and pumpkins to an infinite extreme. She says that creating art is how she maintains her sanity, ‘I followed the thread of art and

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]]> https://interlude.hk/musicians-and-artists-bystrom-and-kusama/feed/ 0 Musicians and Artists: Poole and Hiroshige https://interlude.hk/musicians-and-artists-poole-and-hiroshige/ https://interlude.hk/musicians-and-artists-poole-and-hiroshige/#respond Sat, 06 Jan 2024 16:31:07 +0000 https://interlude.hk/?p=125944 Geoffrey Poole: Crossing Ohashi Bridge The travellers on the bridge hunch down under their small straw coverings – the rain is pouring down, catching them on the exposed walkway. Part of Hiroshige’s series One Hundred Famous Views of Edo, which

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]]> https://interlude.hk/musicians-and-artists-poole-and-hiroshige/feed/ 0 Le Corbusier “To Be Modern Is Not a Fashion, It Is a State” https://interlude.hk/le-corbusier-architecture-integrate-with-music/ https://interlude.hk/le-corbusier-architecture-integrate-with-music/#respond Fri, 14 Oct 2022 16:07:15 +0000 https://interlude.hk/?p=114290 Born in a small town in the Swiss Jura region famous for precision watchmaking on 6 October 1887, Charles-Édouard Jeanneret, later known as Le Corbusier, was one of the great pioneers of Modernism in architecture. His designs, buildings, and urban

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]]> https://interlude.hk/le-corbusier-architecture-integrate-with-music/feed/ 0 Musicians and Artists: Morton Feldman and Mark Rothko https://interlude.hk/musicians-and-artists-morton-feldman-and-mark-rothko/ https://interlude.hk/musicians-and-artists-morton-feldman-and-mark-rothko/#respond Sat, 05 Oct 2019 16:10:46 +0000 http://interlude.hk/?p=82428 In the middle of Houston, Texas, lies a point of solitude. Given the title of a chapel, it’s a place for spiritual matters, but at the same time, it’s a gathering place for world leaders seeking solutions that will culminate

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]]> https://interlude.hk/musicians-and-artists-morton-feldman-and-mark-rothko/feed/ 0 Martin Luther and the Impact of the Reformation on Architecture, Art and Music https://interlude.hk/martin-luther-impact-reformation-architecture-art-music/ https://interlude.hk/martin-luther-impact-reformation-architecture-art-music/#respond Sat, 11 Nov 2017 16:20:33 +0000 http://www.interlude.hk/front/?p=66452 Five hundred years ago, on October 31, 1517 Martin Luther supposedly nailed his Ninety-five Theses to the doors of the Schlosskirche (Castle Church) in Wittenberg, railing against Catholic Church corruption (in particular against the ‘Sale of Indulgences’) dividing Christianity, and

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]]> https://interlude.hk/martin-luther-impact-reformation-architecture-art-music/feed/ 0 The Bauhaus: Architecture, Art and Music II https://interlude.hk/bauhaus-architecture-art-music-ii/ https://interlude.hk/bauhaus-architecture-art-music-ii/#respond Fri, 14 Oct 2016 20:00:59 +0000 http://www.interlude.hk/front/?p=58401 In my September Interlude article I focused on the close relationship between Bauhaus architecture, art and music. It is interesting to note, however, that the Bauhaus’ own teaching program consisted of studies in architecture, art and various crafts, whereas music

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]]> https://interlude.hk/bauhaus-architecture-art-music-ii/feed/ 0 Intersections of Art and Music – Rothko and Pollock https://interlude.hk/intersections-art-music-rothko-pollock/ https://interlude.hk/intersections-art-music-rothko-pollock/#respond Sat, 16 Apr 2016 16:00:08 +0000 http://www.interlude.hk/front/?p=55024 Many 20th century and contemporary artists claim not only to have been inspired by music, but make a very compelling case for a close connection between a particular kind of music and their art. Mark Rothko (1903-1970) according to the

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