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Music activities in commemoration of the Darwin Year

University of Santiago de Compostela, May 2009

"Darwin and evolution” is the name of the series of activities with which the University of Santiago de Compostela joins, in 2009, the celebration of the Darwin Year, including several conferences, round tables, film projections and music.

In the context of this commemorative programme, the next Wednesday 27 May, at 20.00, in the Main Hall of the Faculty of Geography and History, the concert “Escoitas arredor de Darwin e á música nos tempos de Darwin” (“Listenings around Darwin and the music in Darwin’s times”) will take place, by the Siglo XX instrumental ensemble with its director Florian Vlashi.

This event explores the relationship of Darwin’s figure with music, and it is structured in three parts, respectively devoted to music in Darwin’s time, his musical tastes and the Theory of Evolution as a pretext for the world premiere of a work by the composer Helena Palma: “A orixe do home - Homenaxe a Charles Darwin; Unha simulación sónica da evolución do home”, (“The origin of man - Tribute to Charles Darwin; a sonic simulation of the evolution of man”), written for violin and magnetic tape, a sound poem inspired in Charles Darwin’s book The Descent of Man (1871) and in his ideas on the origin and evolution of the species belonging to the genus Homo. The work was constructed as a simulation of the sounds which, the composer surmises, could have been the pre-language used by the members of some of the species of the genus Homo which evolutionarily preceded the modern Homo sapiens.

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