Brazilian composer to speak on ‘Creativity in Contemporary Music’

Musicologist and composer Dr. Maurício Dottori of Brazil will share “Some Thoughts on Creativity in Contemporary Music” at ETSU on Monday, Feb. 7, at 5 p.m. in Mathes Hall.This free public talk is sponsored by the Department of Music in ETSU’s College of Arts and Sciences.

“Contemporary art music has suffered from a loss of touch with (the) concert public in a long process that started in the 18th century,” Dottori said. “Art music itself – or rather, the ideology that conforms its creation – is, in my view, to be blamed, and it is no wonder that, today, art music patrons very often consider originality irrelevant to the present state of concert music.

On the other hand, there cannot be something creative that is not, at the same time, original, and the perception that something is creative is fundamental to our acknowledgement that this something is art.”

Dottori is an associate professor in the Arts Department of the Federal University of Paraná, Brazil.

He holds a Ph.D. in music from the University of Wales, Cardiff, and a master of arts from the School of Communication and Arts at the University of Sao Paulo, Brazil.

For more information or special assistance for those with disabilities, call (423) 439-4276.