Smithsonian Associates: Art Meets Music – A Duet of Visual Artists and Composers, Lecture 4 – The Artist as Musician, the Composer as Model
https://smithsonianassociates.org/ticketing/programs/art-meets-musicMusic and the visual arts have always walked hand in hand. For millennia, artists have obsessed about how to represent music’s invisible beauty, just as composers have sought to render art’s vibrant colors in pure sound. Popular speaker and concert pianist Rachel Franklin leads a fascinating exploration into the intimate relationship between the visible and […]
Smithsonian Associates: The Exquisite Enigma of Maurice Ravel, Lecture 1 – “I am neither a romantic nor a classic. I am myself.”
https://smithsonianassociates.org/ticketing/programs/maurice-ravel“Music should be the beautiful, fragile wing of the soul. It should enchant, caress, and disturb.” —Maurice Ravel The music of Ravel brings a unique form of magnetism, delicacy, passion, and a frisson of disquiet to our concert experience. Beneath his shimmering sound canvases lie an extraordinary craft and fanatical precision that underpins every silken […]
Smithsonian Associates: The Exquisite Enigma of Maurice Ravel, Lecture 2 – “I never look back. I do not want to repeat myself.”
https://smithsonianassociates.org/ticketing/programs/maurice-ravel“Music should be the beautiful, fragile wing of the soul. It should enchant, caress, and disturb.” —Maurice Ravel The music of Ravel brings a unique form of magnetism, delicacy, passion, and a frisson of disquiet to our concert experience. Beneath his shimmering sound canvases lie an extraordinary craft and fanatical precision that underpins every silken […]
Smithsonian Associates: Georges Bizet and Carmen – A Life in Music, a Legacy in Opera
https://smithsonianassociates.org/ticketing/programs/georges-bizet-and-carmenWhen Georges Bizet died suddenly and tragically at the early age of 36 in 1875, his new opera, Carmen, had just been dubbed a humiliating failure, panned by critics at its Paris premiere barely three months beforehand. Bizet would never know that only a few months later its performances in Vienna, St. Petersburg, London, and […]