BEGIN:VCALENDAR VERSION:2.0 PRODID:-//wp-events-plugin.com//7.2.3.1//EN TZID:America/Denver X-WR-TIMEZONE:America/Denver BEGIN:VEVENT UID:17-16545@music.colostate.edu DTSTART;TZID=America/Denver:20220329T183000 DTEND;TZID=America/Denver:20220329T203000 DTSTAMP:20220323T205201Z URL:https://music.colostate.edu/events/virtuoso-series-concertjoel-bacon-o rgan/ SUMMARY:Virtuoso Series Concert: Joel Bacon\, Organ\, with theologian\, Dou glas Finn — Perspectives on Job DESCRIPTION:In this interdisciplinary event\, two faculty members in the Co llege of Liberal Arts present their scholarship on a common topic: the bib lical story of Job. The evening starts with a lecture given by Dr. Dougla s Finn\, Visiting Assistant Professor of Catholic Studies. Read more about Dr. Finn and the Willette endowed philosophy faculty position. Following the lecture\, a recital will be given by Dr. Joel Bacon\, Stewart and She ron Golden Chair of Organ and Liturgical Studies.\nJob in Music\nThe bibli cal story of Job is the subject of Czech composer and holocaust survivor\, Petr Eben's eight-movement organ cycle from 1989. Eben (1929-2007) is con sidered one of the greatest composers for organ of the late 20th century\, and Job contains some of his most emotional\, spiritual\, and thought-pro voking music.\n\nWhile Eben often drew inspiration from Hebrew scripture\, the Book of Job was especially important to him. In his notes on the musi c\, he wrote that it was extremely topical for “providing a key to withs tanding a trial of faith\,” and for its portrayal of a God who “stands beside those who suffer.”\n\nBorn to a Jewish father\, but raised Catho lic\, Eben was interred in the concentration camp at Buchenwald during Wor ld War II. Under a Communist regime in Czechoslovakia\, he suffered for hi s refusal to join the Communist party and for openly attending church. Dee ply religious\, he was denied the freedom to publicly discuss religious id eas\, which he often couched in compositions and organ improvisations.\n\n Petr Eben’s Job is at once both a vivid portrayal of a timeless story an d a remarkable spiritual testimony.\nJob in Christian Interpretation\nThe Book of Job in the Hebrew Bible addresses the issue of innocent suffering. More specifically\, in both form and content\, it explores how one might speak about an experience of injustice that defies language.\n\nJob was a favorite biblical hero of the late antique bishop John Chrysostom (347-407 CE)\, who was renowned in the early church for his preaching. Chrysostom frequently used Job as a moral example for his Christian congregation\, an d an important theme of his preaching was the indescribability of Job’s plight.\n\nDr. Finn will investigate the significance Job’s story had as a narrative graciously given by God to human beings in Chrysostom's the ology and pastoral program. The lecture will include some of the way Chry sostom sought to use rhetoric to enable his audience to share in Job’s s uffering\, and to lead them\, in and through Job’s travails\, to a visio n of heaven’s even more indescribable glory.\n\n \; ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://www.libarts.colostate.edu/music/wp-conte nt/uploads/sites/17/2021/11/2022.03.29_VirtuosoSeries_JoelBacon_Perspectiv esonJob_Poster.jpeg CATEGORIES:College of Liberal Arts Featured Events LOCATION:Organ Recital Hall\, University Center for the Arts\, 1400 Remingo n St.\, Fort Collins\, CO\, 80524\, United States GEO:40.5692704;-105.07477849999998 X-APPLE-STRUCTURED-LOCATION;VALUE=URI;X-ADDRESS=1400 Remingon St.\, Fort Co llins\, CO\, 80524\, United States;X-APPLE-RADIUS=100;X-TITLE=Organ Recita l Hall\, University Center for the Arts:geo:40.5692704,-105.07477849999998 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VTIMEZONE TZID:America/Denver X-LIC-LOCATION:America/Denver BEGIN:DAYLIGHT DTSTART:20220313T030000 TZOFFSETFROM:-0700 TZOFFSETTO:-0600 TZNAME:MDT END:DAYLIGHT END:VTIMEZONE END:VCALENDAR