Schubert's Dream
Schubert’s short story My Dream, a tale of exile and homecoming, opens new insights into the artist’s life and personality. Having performed and composed exclusively among a private circle of friends, Schubert remains of the most elusive of Romantic composers. His outgoing personality and lively social life sometimes masked an undercurrent of anxiety, insecurity, and loneliness. In the story, many of these feelings come to the surface as Schubert recounts a dream of being driven out of his father’s house and forced to wander in foreign lands.
This concert will highlight Schubert’s only known literary work amid performances of some of his most exquisite chamber music and songs, including his second Piano Trio and selected songs from Die Winterreise andSchwanengesang
Schubert’s Dream was part of our 2009-2010 and 2003-2004 Seasons.
2009-2010 Season
Artists in Exile
The Ensemble for the Romantic Century celebrated its ninth season by examining the lives of exiled artists from the perspective of spiritual, emotional, and intellectual displacements, a counterpart to exile as political isolation that formed the subject of our previous season. The condition of exile, understood as a removal from ordinary society, can also be seen as a symbolic need for the creative artist, who must often seek refuge in a closed-off inner world.
This sense of artistic isolation was the focus of the 2009-2010 season.
More from our 2009-2010 Season: