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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 […]

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 […]

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 […]

https://www.roundtable.org/live-courses/music/the-revolutionary-george-gershwin-a-composer-beyond-boundaries DuBose Heyward’s novel “Porgy” inspired Gershwin to compose what he felt profoundly to be his finest achievement, consuming him to near exhaustion right up to its opening in 1935. […]

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 […]

https://smithsonianassociates.org/ticketing/programs/women-who-shaped-musical-worldThroughout the history of Western music, men have claimed most of the spotlight and accolades as performers, composers, teachers, impresarios, patrons, and instrument makers. Less attention has been paid to […]

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 […]

https://smithsonianassociates.org/ticketing/programs/women-who-shaped-musical-worldThroughout the history of Western music, men have claimed most of the spotlight and accolades as performers, composers, teachers, impresarios, patrons, and instrument makers. Less attention has been paid to […]

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.

https://smithsonianassociates.org/ticketing/programs/women-who-shaped-musical-worldThroughout the history of Western music, men have claimed most of the spotlight and accolades as performers, composers, teachers, impresarios, patrons, and instrument makers. Less attention has been paid to the scores of brilliant creative women who played these roles—along with many others—and who were relegated to the less brightly lit corners of the musical […]

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.

https://smithsonianassociates.org/ticketing/programs/women-who-shaped-musical-worldThroughout the history of Western music, men have claimed most of the spotlight and accolades as performers, composers, teachers, impresarios, patrons, and instrument makers. Less attention has been paid to the scores of brilliant creative women who played these roles—along with many others—and who were relegated to the less brightly lit corners of the musical […]