If you’ve watched The Nutcracker, listened to Schumann’s Kreisleriana, or read Edgar Allan Poe, you’ve encountered the influence of E. T. A. Hoffmann (1776–1822), the man who dreamed many features of ...
KEYSTONE – The National Repertory Orchestra (NRO) rekindles the mystery, agitation and vitality of the Romantic period Sunday. Violinist Karen Strittmatter performs Ernest Chausson’s “Poeme,” a piece ...
Neo-Romanticism may well be back in photography—at least according to photographer Neil Folberg, who is also the owner of the Vision Gallery in Jerusalem. But it isn’t simply back—Folberg believes the ...
HISTORIANS of music are accustomed to speak of the first half or three quarters of the nineteenth century as the Romantic Period in music, and of those composers who immediately follow Beethoven — ...
Paris has long held the world’s imagination as a city of love. From candlelit dinners beside the Seine to leisurely strolls ...
The association between Methodism and English Romanticism, of course, has a long history. Most of the early Romantics had some connection to the Methodists—if only an antagonistic one. Leigh Hunt ...