BEGIN:VCALENDAR VERSION:2.0 PRODID:-//Rachel Franklin - ECPv6.16.5//NONSGML v1.0//EN CALSCALE:GREGORIAN METHOD:PUBLISH X-ORIGINAL-URL:https://rachelfranklin.com X-WR-CALDESC:Events for Rachel Franklin REFRESH-INTERVAL;VALUE=DURATION:PT1H X-Robots-Tag:noindex X-PUBLISHED-TTL:PT1H BEGIN:VTIMEZONE TZID:America/New_York BEGIN:DAYLIGHT TZOFFSETFROM:-0500 TZOFFSETTO:-0400 TZNAME:EDT DTSTART:20240310T070000 END:DAYLIGHT BEGIN:STANDARD TZOFFSETFROM:-0400 TZOFFSETTO:-0500 TZNAME:EST DTSTART:20241103T060000 END:STANDARD BEGIN:DAYLIGHT TZOFFSETFROM:-0500 TZOFFSETTO:-0400 TZNAME:EDT DTSTART:20250309T070000 END:DAYLIGHT BEGIN:STANDARD TZOFFSETFROM:-0400 TZOFFSETTO:-0500 TZNAME:EST DTSTART:20251102T060000 END:STANDARD BEGIN:DAYLIGHT TZOFFSETFROM:-0500 TZOFFSETTO:-0400 TZNAME:EDT DTSTART:20260308T070000 END:DAYLIGHT BEGIN:STANDARD TZOFFSETFROM:-0400 TZOFFSETTO:-0500 TZNAME:EST DTSTART:20261101T060000 END:STANDARD END:VTIMEZONE BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20251007T120000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20251007T133000 DTSTAMP:20250729T020006Z CREATED:20250729T015800Z LAST-MODIFIED:20250729T020006Z UID:4736-1759838400-1759843800@rachelfranklin.com SUMMARY:Smithsonian Associates: Ballet Music - The Soul of Movement\, Lecture 1 - From the Ballet de la Nuit to Coppélia: Desperately Seeking Composers DESCRIPTION:https://smithsonianassociates.org/ticketing/programs/ballet-music\n \n \n \n \n \n Audiences 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 exalted by the music. While dance is as old as we are\, ballet is a much more recent evolution. By tracing ballet’s rapid journey from French courtly dance to an internationally beloved artform\, we find its path travels directly through the magnificent scores of composers like Debussy\, Stravinsky\, Copland\, and of course\, Tchaikovsky. \nIn a 4-session series\, speaker and concert pianist Rachel Franklin uses her unique live piano demonstrations and historic and contemporary film clips to illustrate how the music from such ballet masterpieces as Giselle\, Swan Lake\, Daphnis and Chloë\, Le Sacre du Printemps\, and Appalachian Spring became a treasured part of our cultural landscape. \nBritish-born Franklin has been a featured speaker for organizations including the Library of Congress and NPR\, exploring intersections among classical and jazz music\, film scores\, and the fine arts. \n——————————————————————————————————————————————— \nBallet is a unique experience in performance art\, but what really takes it to its greatest heights is the musical score. It’s a bald but undeniable fact that the finest ballets are driven by the finest music. But finding composers who understood how to write for dance wasn’t always easy. Franklin follows ballet’s escape from the French court\, its long-standing partnership with opera\, and the first great scores by Gluck\, Beethoven\, Adolphe Adam\, and Léo Delibes. URL:https://rachelfranklin.com/event/smithsonian-associates-ballet-music-the-soul-of-movement-lecture-1-from-the-ballet-de-la-nuit-to-coppelia-desperately-seeking-composers/ LOCATION:Isle of Man ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://rachelfranklin.com/wp-content/uploads/2025/07/ballet-music.jpg END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20251011T190000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20251011T193000 DTSTAMP:20250913T180251Z CREATED:20250913T180247Z LAST-MODIFIED:20250913T180251Z UID:4787-1760209200-1760211000@rachelfranklin.com SUMMARY:Rachel Franklin for the Baltimore Symphony Orchestra: Inside the Classics DESCRIPTION:https://www.bsomusic.org/inside-the-classics/\n \n \n \n \n \n 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. URL:https://rachelfranklin.com/event/rachel-franklin-for-the-baltimore-symphony-orchestra-inside-the-classics-17/ LOCATION:Music Center at Strathmore\, 5301 Tuckerman Ln\, North Bethesda\, MD\, 20852\, United States ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://rachelfranklin.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/12/BaltimoreSymphonyOrchestra.jpg END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20251014T120000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20251014T133000 DTSTAMP:20250729T020201Z CREATED:20250729T020116Z LAST-MODIFIED:20250729T020201Z UID:4746-1760443200-1760448600@rachelfranklin.com SUMMARY:Smithsonian Associates: Ballet Music - The Soul of Movement\, Lecture 2 - Tchaikovsky Changes Everything DESCRIPTION:https://smithsonianassociates.org/ticketing/programs/ballet-music\n \n \n \n \n \n Audiences 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 exalted by the music. While dance is as old as we are\, ballet is a much more recent evolution. By tracing ballet’s rapid journey from French courtly dance to an internationally beloved artform\, we find its path travels directly through the magnificent scores of composers like Debussy\, Stravinsky\, Copland\, and of course\, Tchaikovsky. \nIn a 4-session series\, speaker and concert pianist Rachel Franklin uses her unique live piano demonstrations and historic and contemporary film clips to illustrate how the music from such ballet masterpieces as Giselle\, Swan Lake\, Daphnis and Chloë\, Le Sacre du Printemps\, and Appalachian Spring became a treasured part of our cultural landscape. \nBritish-born Franklin has been a featured speaker for organizations including the Library of Congress and NPR\, exploring intersections among classical and jazz music\, film scores\, and the fine arts. \n——————————————————————————————————————————————— \nTchaikovsky declared\, “I totally fail to understand how the expression ‘ballet music’ can be something disapproving!” He fought for his dance scores to be taken as seriously as his other works. His exquisite vision of fairytale beauty demanded an entirely new level of choreographic expression\, and both dancers and choreographers struggled to match his dramatic sweep. By surveying the history of Swan Lake\, The Nutcracker\, and The Sleeping Beauty\, Franklin offers insights into a new tradition of dance music that laid the groundwork for our richest ballet experiences today. URL:https://rachelfranklin.com/event/smithsonian-associates-ballet-music-the-soul-of-movement-lecture-2-tchaikovsky-changes-everything/ LOCATION:Isle of Man ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://rachelfranklin.com/wp-content/uploads/2025/07/ballet-music.jpg END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20251018T190000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20251018T193000 DTSTAMP:20250913T180425Z CREATED:20250913T180421Z LAST-MODIFIED:20250913T180425Z UID:4789-1760814000-1760815800@rachelfranklin.com SUMMARY:Rachel Franklin for the Baltimore Symphony Orchestra: Inside the Classics DESCRIPTION:https://www.bsomusic.org/inside-the-classics/\n \n \n \n \n \n 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. URL:https://rachelfranklin.com/event/rachel-franklin-for-the-baltimore-symphony-orchestra-inside-the-classics-18/ LOCATION:Music Center at Strathmore\, 5301 Tuckerman Ln\, North Bethesda\, MD\, 20852\, United States ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://rachelfranklin.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/12/BaltimoreSymphonyOrchestra.jpg END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20251021T120000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20251021T133000 DTSTAMP:20250729T020444Z CREATED:20250729T020440Z LAST-MODIFIED:20250729T020444Z UID:4750-1761048000-1761053400@rachelfranklin.com SUMMARY:Smithsonian Associates: Ballet Music - The Soul of Movement\, Lecture 3 - Diaghilev\, the Dream Weaver DESCRIPTION:https://smithsonianassociates.org/ticketing/programs/ballet-music\n \n \n \n \n \n Audiences 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 exalted by the music. While dance is as old as we are\, ballet is a much more recent evolution. By tracing ballet’s rapid journey from French courtly dance to an internationally beloved artform\, we find its path travels directly through the magnificent scores of composers like Debussy\, Stravinsky\, Copland\, and of course\, Tchaikovsky. \nIn a 4-session series\, speaker and concert pianist Rachel Franklin uses her unique live piano demonstrations and historic and contemporary film clips to illustrate how the music from such ballet masterpieces as Giselle\, Swan Lake\, Daphnis and Chloë\, Le Sacre du Printemps\, and Appalachian Spring became a treasured part of our cultural landscape. \nBritish-born Franklin has been a featured speaker for organizations including the Library of Congress and NPR\, exploring intersections among classical and jazz music\, film scores\, and the fine arts. \n——————————————————————————————————————————————— \nHe didn’t dance\, choreograph\, or compose\, but nonetheless Serge Diaghilev was a ballet alchemist. From his command post in Paris he gathered extraordinary talents together from across the artistic universe to create new\, epochal ballet events that would shape dance up until the present day. Despite stormy relationships with most of them\, Diaghilev managed to persuade luminaries such as Ravel\, Debussy\, Manuel de Falla\, Stravinsky\, and Prokofiev to compose an unparalleled collection of scores for his legendary Ballets Russes. URL:https://rachelfranklin.com/event/smithsonian-associates-ballet-music-the-soul-of-movement-lecture-3-diaghilev-the-dream-weaver/ LOCATION:Isle of Man ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://rachelfranklin.com/wp-content/uploads/2025/07/ballet-music.jpg END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20251023T190000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20251023T193000 DTSTAMP:20250913T180542Z CREATED:20250913T180539Z LAST-MODIFIED:20250913T180542Z UID:4791-1761246000-1761247800@rachelfranklin.com SUMMARY:Rachel Franklin for the Baltimore Symphony Orchestra: Inside the Classics DESCRIPTION:https://www.bsomusic.org/inside-the-classics/\n \n \n \n \n \n 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. URL:https://rachelfranklin.com/event/rachel-franklin-for-the-baltimore-symphony-orchestra-inside-the-classics-19/ LOCATION:Music Center at Strathmore\, 5301 Tuckerman Ln\, North Bethesda\, MD\, 20852\, United States ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://rachelfranklin.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/12/BaltimoreSymphonyOrchestra.jpg END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20251027T193000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20251027T203000 DTSTAMP:20250914T190200Z CREATED:20250914T185938Z LAST-MODIFIED:20250914T190200Z UID:4881-1761593400-1761597000@rachelfranklin.com SUMMARY:Rachel Franklin at the Keese School: "The Pianistic Genius of Fryderyk Chopin" DESCRIPTION:https://www.keeseschool.org/\n \n \n \n \n \n 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 private audiences\, many reports show him to have been a mesmerizing player with a piano technique and harmony so revolutionary that it left other composes scrambling to keep up. \nWith live piano demonstrations\, performances and recordings\, speaker and concert pianist Dr. Rachel Franklin explores the creative output of this extraordinary and enigmatic genius. URL:https://rachelfranklin.com/event/rachel-franklin-at-the-keese-school-the-pianistic-genius-of-fryderyk-chopin/ LOCATION:Isle of Man ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://rachelfranklin.com/wp-content/uploads/2025/09/KeeseSchool.jpg END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20251028T120000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20251028T133000 DTSTAMP:20250729T020711Z CREATED:20250729T020707Z LAST-MODIFIED:20250729T020711Z UID:4754-1761652800-1761658200@rachelfranklin.com SUMMARY:Smithsonian Associates: Ballet Music - The Soul of Movement\, Lecture 4 - Ballet’s Diaspora DESCRIPTION:https://smithsonianassociates.org/ticketing/programs/ballet-music\n \n \n \n \n \n Audiences 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 exalted by the music. While dance is as old as we are\, ballet is a much more recent evolution. By tracing ballet’s rapid journey from French courtly dance to an internationally beloved artform\, we find its path travels directly through the magnificent scores of composers like Debussy\, Stravinsky\, Copland\, and of course\, Tchaikovsky. \nIn a 4-session series\, speaker and concert pianist Rachel Franklin uses her unique live piano demonstrations and historic and contemporary film clips to illustrate how the music from such ballet masterpieces as Giselle\, Swan Lake\, Daphnis and Chloë\, Le Sacre du Printemps\, and Appalachian Spring became a treasured part of our cultural landscape. \nBritish-born Franklin has been a featured speaker for organizations including the Library of Congress and NPR\, exploring intersections among classical and jazz music\, film scores\, and the fine arts. \n——————————————————————————————————————————————— \nThe United States saw some of the finest ballet creations of the 20th century. Aaron Copland created scores of enormous beauty working with the great choreographers Agnes de Mille and Martha Graham\, and jazz found its way naturally into masterpieces by Leonard Bernstein and Jerome Robbins. Franklin also looks at how choreographers such as Balanchine\, Ashton\, and Macmillan used classical music not originally composed for ballet. URL:https://rachelfranklin.com/event/smithsonian-associates-ballet-music-the-soul-of-movement-lecture-4-ballets-diaspora/ LOCATION:Isle of Man ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://rachelfranklin.com/wp-content/uploads/2025/07/ballet-music.jpg END:VEVENT END:VCALENDAR