Events

https://www.cathedral.im/news/rachel-franklin-piano-recital-saturday-9-may-at-7-30pmRachel Franklin was born in London and studied at the Yehudi Menuhin School, the Royal College of Music and the Peabody Conservatory of Music, Baltimore. A distinguished concert and jazz […]

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://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://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://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://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 […]

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 […]

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 […]

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 […]

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 […]

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 […]

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. […]