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Smithsonian Associates: Great Composer-Pianists: Mendelssohn, Liszt, Prokofiev, and Rachmaninoff, Lecture 1 – Felix Mendelssohn
https://smithsonianassociates.org/ticketing/programs/great-composer-pianistsPopular speaker and concert pianist Rachel Franklin provides a unique look at the monumental keyboard talents of four great composer-pianists and how their performing virtuosity influenced the piano works audiences […]
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Rachel Franklin for the Baltimore Symphony Orchestra: Inside the Classics
Music Center at Strathmore 5301 Tuckerman Ln, North Bethesda, MD, United Stateshttps://www.bsomusic.org/experience/insidetheclassics/Dr. Rachel Franklin is delighted to be the Baltimore Symphony Orchestra's Strathmore Music Scholar-in-Residence. She gives all the BSO’s pre-concert presentations at their Bethesda, MD venue, Strathmore Hall as part […]
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Smithsonian Associates: Great Composer-Pianists: Mendelssohn, Liszt, Prokofiev, and Rachmaninoff, Lecture 2 – Franz Liszt
https://smithsonianassociates.org/ticketing/programs/great-composer-pianistsPopular speaker and concert pianist Rachel Franklin provides a unique look at the monumental keyboard talents of four great composer-pianists and how their performing virtuosity influenced the piano works audiences […]
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Smithsonian Associates: Great Composer-Pianists: Mendelssohn, Liszt, Prokofiev, and Rachmaninoff, Lecture 3 – Sergei Prokofiev
https://smithsonianassociates.org/ticketing/programs/great-composer-pianistsPopular speaker and concert pianist Rachel Franklin provides a unique look at the monumental keyboard talents of four great composer-pianists and how their performing virtuosity influenced the piano works audiences […]
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Smithsonian Associates: Great Composer-Pianists: Mendelssohn, Liszt, Prokofiev, and Rachmaninoff, Lecture 4 – Sergei Rachmaninoff
https://smithsonianassociates.org/ticketing/programs/great-composer-pianistsPopular speaker and concert pianist Rachel Franklin provides a unique look at the monumental keyboard talents of four great composer-pianists and how their performing virtuosity influenced the piano works audiences […]
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Roundtable by the 92nd Street Y: A Celebration of French Music: From Berlioz to Debussy and Ravel, Lecture 1 – 700 Years in Two Hours
https://www.roundtable.org/live-courses/music/a-celebration-of-french-music-beauty-revolution-reinvention We begin with French music written before the 19th century, starting with the mystery and beauty of early 12th-century polyphony by Léonin and Pérotin from the mighty School of […]
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Roundtable by the 92nd Street Y: A Celebration of French Music: From Berlioz to Debussy and Ravel, Lecture 2 – Excess, Outrage & Virtuosity
https://www.roundtable.org/live-courses/music/a-celebration-of-french-music-beauty-revolution-reinvention In the 1800s, it seemed that the horrors of the French Revolution had unleashed a taste for massive scale and spectacle. The startling musical program of Hector Berlioz’s brilliant […]
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Smithsonian Associates: Two Holiday Masterworks: Handel’s Messiah and Tchaikovsky’s Nutcracker, Lecture 1 – Messiah
https://smithsonianassociates.org/ticketing/programs/two-holiday-masterworksAs the winter draws near and preparations begin for seasonal festivals of wonder and sacred joy, no classical music more powerfully expresses the sense of glory and enchantment than two […]
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Roundtable by the 92nd Street Y: A Celebration of French Music: From Berlioz to Debussy and Ravel, Lecture 3 – Passing the Flame
https://www.roundtable.org/live-courses/music/a-celebration-of-french-music-beauty-revolution-reinvention Saint-Saëns was Gabriel Fauré’s deeply revered teacher. And Fauré was equally influential as the chief mentor for Maurice Ravel. Connections continue on a less exalted level, as singer Emma […]
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Smithsonian Associates: Two Holiday Masterworks: Handel’s Messiah and Tchaikovsky’s Nutcracker, Lecture 2 – The Nutcracker
https://smithsonianassociates.org/ticketing/programs/two-holiday-masterworksAs the winter draws near and preparations begin for seasonal festivals of wonder and sacred joy, no classical music more powerfully expresses the sense of glory and enchantment than two […]
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Roundtable by the 92nd Street Y: A Celebration of French Music: From Berlioz to Debussy and Ravel, Lecture 4 – Modernism Smashes Old Idols
https://www.roundtable.org/live-courses/music/a-celebration-of-french-music-beauty-revolution-reinvention "Enough of clouds, waves, aquariums, water sprites, and nocturnal scents; what we need is a music of the earth, everyday music." With those inflammatory words, mover, shaker, and trouble-maker […]