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SUMMARY:Roundtable by the 92nd Street Y: Great Composer Pianists\, Lecture 1 - Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
DESCRIPTION:https://www.roundtable.org/live-courses/music/great-composer-pianists-mozart-beethoven-chopin-and-brahms\n			\n				\n				\n				\n				\n				\n\n\n\n\n“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 know where I was….He wove together the most difficult passages and the most ingratiating themes…” Mozart’s playing was regarded as simply wondrous. We examine his beginnings as a harpsichord player and how he subsequently pivoted directly to the recently-developed pianofortes\, creating new concerto styles that both dazzled and confused his audiences. \n\n\n\n\n\n——————————————————————————————————————————————— \nJoin talented speaker and pianist Rachel Franklin to take a unique look at the monumental keyboard talents of four great composer/pianists\, Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart\, Ludwig van Beethoven\, Fryderyk Chopin\, and Johannes Brahms\, and how that performing virtuosity influenced the piano works we enjoy today. With a legacy of printed compositions but no recordings\, how can we get closer to those white-hot moments of creation when these artists poured out their genius for fortunate and astonished listeners? How did both the composer’s imagination and personal physique relate to developing piano design\, and which came first? And did audiences even comprehend what they were hearing? \nFranklin will trace Mozart’s beginnings as a harpsichord player to his pivot to pianofortes\, ultimately creating new concerto styles that both dazzled and confused his audiences. Beethoven innovated entirely new piano techniques almost by accident as he fought to express his titanic ideas on the instrument while constantly harassing piano makers for stronger instruments and dealing with encroaching deafness. Chopin\, meanwhile\, is often romanticized as a mesmerizing performer with a revolutionary piano technique and harmony. Finally\, Brahms trained intensely as a pianist and all his compositions demand a massive and highly-controlled technique. He\, along with his muse Clara Schumann\, taught many students whose playing was subsequently captured by early recording\, allowing us a tantalizing glimpse into the performing styles of the 19th century.
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SUMMARY:Smithsonian Associates: Manuel de Falla at 150 - Modernism\, Mysticism\, and the Musical Spirit of Spain
DESCRIPTION:https://smithsonianassociates.org/ticketing/programs/manuel-de-falla-at-150\n			\n				\n				\n				\n				\n				Marking 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 life a slight\, almost Chaplinesque figure whose music pulses with sensuality and spiritual intensity. Deeply sensitive\, devout\, and more than a little superstitious\, de Falla transformed the evocative folk sounds of his native Andalusia into Modernist works of extraordinary color\, wit\, and drama. \nFrom his roots in Cádiz\, to Paris where he collaborated with the revolutionary Ballets Russes\, and finally into exile in Argentina\, Franklin examines how de Falla forged his unique\, seductive voice with such enchanting stage and concert pieces as El amor brujo\, La vida breve\, and Noches en los jardines de España. \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.
URL:https://rachelfranklin.com/event/smithsonian-associates-manuel-de-falla-at-150-modernism-mysticism-and-the-musical-spirit-of-spain/
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SUMMARY:Roundtable by the 92nd Street Y: Great Composer Pianists\, Lecture 2 - Ludwig van Beethoven
DESCRIPTION:https://www.roundtable.org/live-courses/music/great-composer-pianists-mozart-beethoven-chopin-and-brahms\n			\n				\n				\n				\n				\n				\n\n\n\n\n“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 and originality of his ideas and his spirited style of rendering them. After ending an improvisation of this kind he would burst into loud laughter and banter his hearers on the emotion he had caused in them. “You are fools!” he would say. “Who could live among such spoiled children?” he would cry…” Mozart may have enchanted his listeners\, but Beethoven overwhelmed and frequently disturbed them. While constantly harassing piano makers for stronger instruments and dealing with encroaching deafness\, Beethoven created entirely new piano techniques almost by accident as he fought to express his titanic ideas on the instrument. \n\n\n\n\n\n——————————————————————————————————————————————— \nJoin talented speaker and pianist Rachel Franklin to take a unique look at the monumental keyboard talents of four great composer/pianists\, Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart\, Ludwig van Beethoven\, Fryderyk Chopin\, and Johannes Brahms\, and how that performing virtuosity influenced the piano works we enjoy today. With a legacy of printed compositions but no recordings\, how can we get closer to those white-hot moments of creation when these artists poured out their genius for fortunate and astonished listeners? How did both the composer’s imagination and personal physique relate to developing piano design\, and which came first? And did audiences even comprehend what they were hearing? \nFranklin will trace Mozart’s beginnings as a harpsichord player to his pivot to pianofortes\, ultimately creating new concerto styles that both dazzled and confused his audiences. Beethoven innovated entirely new piano techniques almost by accident as he fought to express his titanic ideas on the instrument while constantly harassing piano makers for stronger instruments and dealing with encroaching deafness. Chopin\, meanwhile\, is often romanticized as a mesmerizing performer with a revolutionary piano technique and harmony. Finally\, Brahms trained intensely as a pianist and all his compositions demand a massive and highly-controlled technique. He\, along with his muse Clara Schumann\, taught many students whose playing was subsequently captured by early recording\, allowing us a tantalizing glimpse into the performing styles of the 19th century.
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SUMMARY:Roundtable by the 92nd Street Y: Great Composer Pianists\, Lecture 3 - Fryderyk Chopin
DESCRIPTION:https://www.roundtable.org/live-courses/music/great-composer-pianists-mozart-beethoven-chopin-and-brahms\n			\n				\n				\n				\n				\n				\n\n\n\n\n“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 the warmth of Chopin’s temperament\, his playing was always measured\, chaste\, distinguished and at times even severely reserved.” 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 really only enjoyed performing for private audiences\, the many reports we have show him to have been a mesmerizing performer with a piano technique and harmony so revolutionary that it left his brilliant friend Franz Liszt scrambling to keep up! \n\n\n\n\n\n——————————————————————————————————————————————— \nJoin talented speaker and pianist Rachel Franklin to take a unique look at the monumental keyboard talents of four great composer/pianists\, Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart\, Ludwig van Beethoven\, Fryderyk Chopin\, and Johannes Brahms\, and how that performing virtuosity influenced the piano works we enjoy today. With a legacy of printed compositions but no recordings\, how can we get closer to those white-hot moments of creation when these artists poured out their genius for fortunate and astonished listeners? How did both the composer’s imagination and personal physique relate to developing piano design\, and which came first? And did audiences even comprehend what they were hearing? \nFranklin will trace Mozart’s beginnings as a harpsichord player to his pivot to pianofortes\, ultimately creating new concerto styles that both dazzled and confused his audiences. Beethoven innovated entirely new piano techniques almost by accident as he fought to express his titanic ideas on the instrument while constantly harassing piano makers for stronger instruments and dealing with encroaching deafness. Chopin\, meanwhile\, is often romanticized as a mesmerizing performer with a revolutionary piano technique and harmony. Finally\, Brahms trained intensely as a pianist and all his compositions demand a massive and highly-controlled technique. He\, along with his muse Clara Schumann\, taught many students whose playing was subsequently captured by early recording\, allowing us a tantalizing glimpse into the performing styles of the 19th century.
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