Events
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Roundtable by the 92nd Street Y: Great Composer Pianists, Lecture 1 – Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
https://www.roundtable.org/live-courses/music/great-composer-pianists-mozart-beethoven-chopin-and-brahms “Kapellmeister Mozart’s…The hour of music I heard there was the happiest ever granted me. This little man and great master improvised twice…so wonderfully! so wonderfully! that I did not […]
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Smithsonian Associates: Manuel de Falla at 150 – Modernism, Mysticism, and the Musical Spirit of Spain
https://smithsonianassociates.org/ticketing/programs/manuel-de-falla-at-150Marking the 150th anniversary of pivotal 20th-century Spanish composer Manuel de Falla’s birth, popular speaker and concert pianist Rachel Franklin combines an illustrated lecture with live piano demonstrations to bring to […]
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Roundtable by the 92nd Street Y: Great Composer Pianists, Lecture 2 – Ludwig van Beethoven
https://www.roundtable.org/live-courses/music/great-composer-pianists-mozart-beethoven-chopin-and-brahms “His improvisation was most brilliant and striking. In whatever company he might chance to be, he knew how to produce such an effect upon every hearer that frequently not […]
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Roundtable by the 92nd Street Y: Great Composer Pianists, Lecture 3 – Fryderyk Chopin
https://www.roundtable.org/live-courses/music/great-composer-pianists-mozart-beethoven-chopin-and-brahms “The tone he could draw from the instrument, especially in cantabiles, was always immense…He gave a noble manly energy to appropriate passages with overpowering effect – energy without roughness […]
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Smithsonian Associates: Antonio Vivaldi – Revival of a Baroque Genius
https://smithsonianassociates.org/ticketing/programs/antonio-vivaldiAntonio Vivaldi’s music is so beloved today that it’s hard to imagine he was virtually forgotten for nearly two centuries. In his day, the fiery-haired, virtuoso violinist and Catholic priest […]
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Roundtable by the 92nd Street Y: Great Composer Pianists, Lecture 4 – Johannes Brahms
https://www.roundtable.org/live-courses/music/great-composer-pianists-mozart-beethoven-chopin-and-brahms “Brahms’ playing…was, indeed, stimulating to an extraordinary degree and so apart as to be quite unforgettable. It was not the playing of a virtuoso, though he had a large […]
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Smithsonian Associates: Jazzing the Classics – The Enduring Influence of American Jazz on Classical Music, Lecture 1 – Jazz Invades Paris, Paris Rolls Over
https://smithsonianassociates.org/ticketing/programs/jazzing-classicsBeginning in the earliest part of the 20th century, European “art” or “classical” music enjoyed a brief but intense romance with American jazz. If its perceptions of this unique American […]
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Smithsonian Associates: Jazzing the Classics – The Enduring Influence of American Jazz on Classical Music, Lecture 2 – The Twenties Roar In
https://smithsonianassociates.org/ticketing/programs/jazzing-classicsBeginning in the earliest part of the 20th century, European “art” or “classical” music enjoyed a brief but intense romance with American jazz. If its perceptions of this unique American […]
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Smithsonian Associates: Jazzing the Classics – The Enduring Influence of American Jazz on Classical Music, Lecture 3 – Weimar, London, and Moscow Get Syncopated
https://smithsonianassociates.org/ticketing/programs/jazzing-classicsBeginning in the earliest part of the 20th century, European “art” or “classical” music enjoyed a brief but intense romance with American jazz. If its perceptions of this unique American […]
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Smithsonian Associates: Jazzing the Classics – The Enduring Influence of American Jazz on Classical Music, Lecture 4 – Concert Halls and Controversy in the US
https://smithsonianassociates.org/ticketing/programs/jazzing-classicsBeginning in the earliest part of the 20th century, European “art” or “classical” music enjoyed a brief but intense romance with American jazz. If its perceptions of this unique American […]