Through narration, readings from their letters, and selections from their oeuvre, we tell the story of Clara and Robert Schumann – their youthful love, its consummation over the objections of Clara’s father, Robert’s slow decline, and Clara’s continued performance and compositional career.

Music will include:

Widmung (Liszt-Schumann), Variations on a theme of Robert Schumann (Clara Schumann), Benjamin Downs, piano
Dichterliebe (Robert Schumann), David Kozisek, tenor
Songs by Clara Schumann, Jennifer Olson, soprano