Smithsonian Associates: Ballet Music – The Soul of Movement, Lecture 1 – From the Ballet de la Nuit to Coppélia: Desperately Seeking Composers

https://smithsonianassociates.org/ticketing/programs/ballet-musicAudiences love the spectacle and the sets, adore the costumes, and thrill to the brilliance and beauty of the choreography and the performers, and above all we are moved and exalted by the music. While dance is as old as we are, ballet is a much more recent evolution. By tracing ballet’s rapid journey from […]

Smithsonian Associates: Ballet Music – The Soul of Movement, Lecture 2 – Tchaikovsky Changes Everything

https://smithsonianassociates.org/ticketing/programs/ballet-musicAudiences love the spectacle and the sets, adore the costumes, and thrill to the brilliance and beauty of the choreography and the performers, and above all we are moved and exalted by the music. While dance is as old as we are, ballet is a much more recent evolution. By tracing ballet’s rapid journey from […]

Smithsonian Associates: Ballet Music – The Soul of Movement, Lecture 3 – Diaghilev, the Dream Weaver

https://smithsonianassociates.org/ticketing/programs/ballet-musicAudiences love the spectacle and the sets, adore the costumes, and thrill to the brilliance and beauty of the choreography and the performers, and above all we are moved and exalted by the music. While dance is as old as we are, ballet is a much more recent evolution. By tracing ballet’s rapid journey from […]

Smithsonian Associates: Ballet Music – The Soul of Movement, Lecture 4 – Ballet’s Diaspora

https://smithsonianassociates.org/ticketing/programs/ballet-musicAudiences love the spectacle and the sets, adore the costumes, and thrill to the brilliance and beauty of the choreography and the performers, and above all we are moved and exalted by the music. While dance is as old as we are, ballet is a much more recent evolution. By tracing ballet’s rapid journey from […]

Smithsonian Associates: Fairy Tales in Classical Music, Lecture 1 – Six of the Scariest

https://smithsonianassociates.org/ticketing/programs/fairy-tales-in-classical-musicEver since early humans began to gather, they attempted to understand the inexplicable universe by telling tales. While composers have frequently enjoyed exploring the macabre and Gothic horror, classical repertory is equally graced with gentler stories, some of which end happily ever after. In the perfect follow-up to Halloween, speaker and concert pianist Rachel Franklin […]

Smithsonian Associates: Fairy Tales in Classical Music, Lecture 2 – Grimm, Perrault, and Andersen: Masters of Enchantment

https://smithsonianassociates.org/ticketing/programs/fairy-tales-in-classical-musicEver since early humans began to gather, they attempted to understand the inexplicable universe by telling tales. While composers have frequently enjoyed exploring the macabre and Gothic horror, classical repertory is equally graced with gentler stories, some of which end happily ever after. In the perfect follow-up to Halloween, speaker and concert pianist Rachel Franklin […]

Smithsonian Associates: Fairy Tales in Classical Music, Lecture 3 – Faeries, Trolls, and Mystical Maidens

https://smithsonianassociates.org/ticketing/programs/fairy-tales-in-classical-musicEver since early humans began to gather, they attempted to understand the inexplicable universe by telling tales. While composers have frequently enjoyed exploring the macabre and Gothic horror, classical repertory is equally graced with gentler stories, some of which end happily ever after. In the perfect follow-up to Halloween, speaker and concert pianist Rachel Franklin […]

Smithsonian Associates: Fairy Tales in Classical Music, Lecture 4 – Operatic Occult

https://smithsonianassociates.org/ticketing/programs/fairy-tales-in-classical-musicEver since early humans began to gather, they attempted to understand the inexplicable universe by telling tales. While composers have frequently enjoyed exploring the macabre and Gothic horror, classical repertory is equally graced with gentler stories, some of which end happily ever after. In the perfect follow-up to Halloween, speaker and concert pianist Rachel Franklin […]