♦ Seminar at CUNY , Thursday, March 10, 2011

♦ Theatrical Concert, Thursday, March 24, 2011

♦ THEATRICAL CONCERT

PROUST
Proust’s Court of Love

In voluntary exile for the last decade of his life, immersed in a tangled knot of neuroses, eccentricities, anxieties, and doubts, Marcel Proust recaptured his experiences and immortalized the loves of his real and fictional lives in his sweeping novel À la recherche du temps perdu, a breathtaking voyage through the unconscious. ERC's theatrical concert features a script that draws upon Proust's novel, his letters, and the reminiscences of his faithful housekeeper, Céleste Albaret, the only person who witnessed the creation of his masterpiece. Focusing on the perpetual conflict between love and jealousy, the script dramatizes these emotions in tandem with a selection of musical works that emulate the modernity of Proust's superbly calibrated language. The author's stream-of-consciousness technique and his detailed depiction of the fluctuations of human behavior will be mirrored in music of comparable complexity, richness of texture, and sensorial beauty. Works include Ravel's String Quartet, Piano Trio in A minor, and the unusual and groundbreaking Sonata for Violin and Cello; Jean Cras's mysterious Cinq Robaïyats for voice and piano; and a selection of songs by Reynaldo Hahn, Proust's lifelong lover.

Leonard Nimoy Thalia at Peter Norton Symphony Space
2537 Broadway at 95th St.
New York, NY
Thursday   March 24    8:00 pm     7:00 pm pre-concert lecture
$47 General Admission     $16 Students (with ID)
Handicapped Accessible

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Individual tickets to this concert can be purchased through the
Symphony Space Box Office at 212 864-5400
or online at www.symphonyspace.org
[Ticketing Information]

♦ FREE SEMINAR

Thursday, March 10, 2011
The Intermittencies of the Heart: Musical Depictions of Love and Jealousy in Proust’s À la recherche du temps perdu
5:30 - 7:30 pm
CUNY Graduate Center, 365 Fifth Avenue, Skylight Room, 9th floor

For more information: jmelo@gc.cuny.edu; 212-817-8606
Presented by the Barry S. Brook Center for Music Research and Documentation, CUNY, and the Ensemble for the Romantic Century in connection with ERC’s current series of theatrical concerts.

♦ SUGGESTED READING

A list of suggested reading material will be posted online in October.

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