Virginia Woolf & Music

On Wednesday 27th September, The Woolf & Music project, in collaboration with the Music Research Seminar Series, will host an afternoon of public talks and a live, informal music performance at the Byre Theatre in St Andrews.

The subject of the event is the relationship between music and mental health, inspired by Woolf's representation of the shell-shocked veteran, Septimus, in Mrs Dalloway. Speakers include psychologist Dr Maggie Ellis, literary critic and St Andrews lecturer Dr Emma Sutton, and pianist Lana Bode who together will 'explore music's role in mental illness and creativity', including introductions to 'Woolf's musical hallucinations' and the effects of mental illness on classical composers Woolf enjoyed.

The talks will also explore the relationship between music and dementia, and contemporary studies involving music as an aid to communication for the speech and memory impaired. For further information about the event see The Byre Theatre website.