Illuminating Schumann: Music, Mood Swings, and Madness
Elley-Long Music Center at St. Michael’s College 223 Ethan Allen Avenue, Colchester, VTConcert pianist and psychiatrist Dr. Richard Kogan explores how the racing thoughts, flight of ideas and sharpened imagination of Schumann’s hypomanic states induced prodigious bursts of creativity until the onset of psychosis led to his tragic final years in an insane asylum. The discussion will be illuminated by piano performances of [...]