• 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: 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 […]

  • SONOS Trio at the Oxford Community Center: “Paris, The Crazy Years”

    Oxford Community Center 200 Oxford Road, Oxford, MD, United States

    https://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, known as the Crazy Years – les Années Folles. Our journey through the City of Light glitters with music by Debussy, Gershwin, Ravel, Thelonious Monk, […]

  • 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 […]