Events
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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 […]
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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 […]
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Rachel Franklin in recital at Riderwood Village, Montgomery County, MD: “The Great Composer Pianists”
Riderwood Village 3140 Gracefield Rd., Silver Spring, United Stateshttps://riderwoodlife.com/performing-arts-council/pac-chapel-series/
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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 […]
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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/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.
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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 […]
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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/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 […]
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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 […]
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SONOS Trio at the Oxford Community Center: “Paris, The Crazy Years”
Oxford Community Center 200 Oxford Road, Oxford, MD, United Stateshttps://oxfordcc.org/product/rachel-franklin-sonos-concert/ Paris: The Crazy Years is classic SONOS, a fascinating, immersive tribute to America’s momentous 1917 entry into the First World War, and the extraordinary period in Paris that followed, […]
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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 […]
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Roundtable by the 92nd Street Y: The Revolutionary George Gershwin, Lecture 1 – “My people are Americans. My time is today”
https://www.roundtable.org/live-courses/music/the-revolutionary-george-gershwin-a-composer-beyond-boundaries From his early brilliance as a Tin Pan Alley song plugger to his groundbreaking fusion of classical music and jazz in “Rhapsody in Blue”, George Gershwin spent his formative […]
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Roundtable by the 92nd Street Y: The Revolutionary George Gershwin, Lecture 2 – “Jazz and classical are two languages; I try to speak both”
https://www.roundtable.org/live-courses/music/the-revolutionary-george-gershwin-a-composer-beyond-boundaries Gershwin was already a youthful celebrity when his “Rhapsody in Blue” brought him blazing success. However, his restless imagination and boundless creativity drove him to continue dreaming up new […]