
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 […]

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 […]

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 […]

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 […]

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 […]

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, […]

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 […]

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 […]

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 […]

Roundtable by the 92nd Street Y: The Revolutionary George Gershwin, Lecture 3 – “I never felt more alive…than when working on Porgy and Bess”
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. […]

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 […]

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 […]