
Smithsonian Associates: Art Meets Music – A Duet of Visual Artists and Composers, Lecture 4 – The Artist as Musician, the Composer as Model
https://smithsonianassociates.org/ticketing/programs/art-meets-musicMusic and the visual arts have always walked hand in hand. For millennia, artists have obsessed about how to represent music’s invisible beauty, just as composers have sought to render […]

Smithsonian Associates: The Exquisite Enigma of Maurice Ravel, Lecture 1 – “I am neither a romantic nor a classic. I am myself.”
https://smithsonianassociates.org/ticketing/programs/maurice-ravel“Music should be the beautiful, fragile wing of the soul. It should enchant, caress, and disturb.” —Maurice Ravel The music of Ravel brings a unique form of magnetism, delicacy, passion, […]

Smithsonian Associates: The Exquisite Enigma of Maurice Ravel, Lecture 2 – “I never look back. I do not want to repeat myself.”
https://smithsonianassociates.org/ticketing/programs/maurice-ravel“Music should be the beautiful, fragile wing of the soul. It should enchant, caress, and disturb.” —Maurice Ravel The music of Ravel brings a unique form of magnetism, delicacy, passion, […]

Smithsonian Associates: Georges Bizet and Carmen – A Life in Music, a Legacy in Opera
https://smithsonianassociates.org/ticketing/programs/georges-bizet-and-carmenWhen Georges Bizet died suddenly and tragically at the early age of 36 in 1875, his new opera, Carmen, had just been dubbed a humiliating failure, panned by critics at […]

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: Ballet Music – The Soul of Movement, Lecture 1 – From the Ballet de la Nuit to Coppélia: Desperately Seeking Composers
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 […]

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: Ballet Music – The Soul of Movement, Lecture 2 – Tchaikovsky Changes Everything
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 […]

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: Ballet Music – The Soul of Movement, Lecture 3 – Diaghilev, the Dream Weaver
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 […]

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 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 […]