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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 an eye remained dry, while many would break out into large sobs; for there was something wonderful in his expression in addition to the beauty […]

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 – just as, on the other hand, he could captivate the listener through the delicacy of his soulful rendering – delicacy without affectation. For all […]

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 was celebrated for his striking innovations in Baroque form, but after his death much of the work of the “Red Priest” vanished from performance. A […]

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 amount of virtuosity (to put it moderately) at his command. He never aimed at mere effect, but seemed to plunge into the innermost meaning of […]

https://smithsonianassociates.org/ticketing/programs/jazzing-classics​Beginning 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 artform were sometimes distinctly misguided, its enthusiasm made up for it. For some it was a charming caprice, for others a raucous symbol of democracy. […]

https://www.bsomusic.org/experience/insidetheclassics/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/jazzing-classics​Beginning 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 artform were sometimes distinctly misguided, its enthusiasm made up for it. For some it was a charming caprice, for others a raucous symbol of democracy. […]

https://smithsonianassociates.org/ticketing/programs/jazzing-classics​Beginning 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 artform were sometimes distinctly misguided, its enthusiasm made up for it. For some it was a charming caprice, for others a raucous symbol of democracy. […]

https://www.bsomusic.org/experience/insidetheclassics/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/jazzing-classics​Beginning 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 artform were sometimes distinctly misguided, its enthusiasm made up for it. For some it was a charming caprice, for others a raucous symbol of democracy. […]

https://www.bsomusic.org/experience/insidetheclassics/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://www.bsomusic.org/experience/insidetheclassics/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.