Eccentricities of the Velvet Gentleman

Eccentricities of the Velvet Gentleman

Erik Satie Originally presented at the T.W. Wood gallery and Arts Center Montpelier, VT Only decades after his death in 1925 was French composer Erik Satie hailed as a genius of contemporary classical music. His work was extremely simple in structure, yet innovative...
Proust In Love

Proust In Love

“Everything I have ever done has always been thanks to Reynaldo.” Originally presented at the Unitarian Churches of Rocky River and Shaker Heights By the age of nineteen in 1894, the musical child prodigy, Reynaldo Hahn, had written many songs about love; however, his...
Trio Amoroso–Robert & Clara Schumann and Johannes Brahms

Trio Amoroso–Robert & Clara Schumann and Johannes Brahms

Robert & Clara Schumann and Johannes Brahms Originally presented at the T.W. Wood Gallery and Arts Center – Montpelier, VT The program relates the story of the Schumanns’ following Robert’s courtship of Clara despite the savage opposition of a father who had...
Mozart and His Women

Mozart and His Women

Originally presented at the T.W. Wood Gallery and Arts Center – Montpelier, VT Throughout his life Mozart was inspired, fascinated, amused, aroused, hurt, disappointed and betrayed by women, but he always loved and respected them. His mother, his sister, his wife and...
Hush—The Story of Blind Tom Wiggins

Hush—The Story of Blind Tom Wiggins

The Story and Music of of Slave, Savant, Pianist and Composer – Blind Tom Wiggins Originally presented at the Cleveland Public Library Main Branch Performed with members and friends of the Broadway School of Music “I am astounded. I cannot account for it, no one can....