The Emory Chamber Music Society of Atlanta (ECMSA) presents an innovative program featuring a discussion and performance of Darius Milhaud’s “The Creation of the World." The program begins by exploring the scientific origins of life and of music, and culminates with live performances to show how life and music develop.
“The Creation of the World” integrates the fields of chemistry and music into a discussion and performance featuring some of the university’s top performers and scholars.
David Lynn, chemistry department chair at Emory and scientist at the Center for Chemical Evolution, opens the program in a lively, contrapuntal scripted conversation with Dwight Andrews, associate professor of music, detailing the parallels between the creation of the world and the creation of a musical masterpiece. The discussion will compare the smallest elements of music and the smallest elements of life, and how these elements grow until reaching a full life-form and finished musical composition.
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The second half of the program will feature performances by Ransom, the Vega String Quartet, and an all-star cast of guest artists and Emory faculty conducted by Richard Prior, director of orchestral studies at Emory.