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 […]

Rachel Franklin for the Baltimore Symphony Orchestra: Inside the Classics

Music Center at Strathmore 5301 Tuckerman Ln, North Bethesda, MD, United States

https://www.bsomusic.org/inside-the-classics/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 of their “Inside the Classics” series.

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 […]

Rachel Franklin for the Baltimore Symphony Orchestra: Inside the Classics

Music Center at Strathmore 5301 Tuckerman Ln, North Bethesda, MD, United States

https://www.bsomusic.org/inside-the-classics/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 of their “Inside the Classics” series.

Rachel Franklin at the Keese School: “The Pianistic Genius of Fryderyk Chopin”

https://www.keeseschool.org/Because of both his fragile health and the exquisite patina of his style, our understanding of Chopin’s playing is sometimes clouded by romantic myth. While he only enjoyed performing for private audiences, many reports show him to have been a mesmerizing player with a piano technique and harmony so revolutionary that it left other composes […]

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 […]

Rachel Franklin for the Baltimore Symphony Orchestra: Inside the Classics

Music Center at Strathmore 5301 Tuckerman Ln, North Bethesda, MD, United States

https://www.bsomusic.org/inside-the-classics/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 of their “Inside the Classics” series.

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 […]

Rachel Franklin for the Baltimore Symphony Orchestra: Inside the Classics

Music Center at Strathmore 5301 Tuckerman Ln, North Bethesda, MD, United States

https://www.bsomusic.org/inside-the-classics/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 of their “Inside the Classics” series.

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 […]