She will discuss how composers dream up their music, how is music imagined and how composers collect their thoughts to produce the music we hear in the concert hall. Professor LeFanu, who is Head of Music at York University, has composed some 50 works of music for a wide variety of instrumental and vocal mediums, including 5 operas. Professor LeFanu has many connections with Norfolk and much of her work has been written in the county. The Arthur Batchelor lecture is an annual event sponsored by a private donor to promote music and the visual arts. The lecture takes place, in Lecture Theatre 1, on Monday 27 March at 6 pm.
Admission is free and all are welcome.