Clara Schumann, | Schedule & Tickets 2025

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Join the Peoria Symphony Orchestra for an unforgettable evening of music and storytelling with the "Star-Crossed Letters" concert. This grand finale of the 2024-2025 concert season unfolds the poignant love triangle between Clara Schumann, Robert Schumann, and Johannes Brahms through an exquisite selection of their compositions. Under the baton of conductor George Stelluto, experience the emotional depth and beauty of works such as Clara Schumann's Scherzo, Op. 10, Johannes Brahms' Tragic Overture, Op. 81, Robert Schumann's Symphony No. 4, Op. 120, and Brahms' Piano Concerto No. 2, Op. 83.

This musical love story from long ago will be brought to life on Friday, May 16, 2025, at the Peoria Civic Center Theater, located at 201 SW Jefferson Ave, Peoria, Illinois 61602. The evening begins at 6:30 pm with the lobby opening, followed by the concert start at 7:30 pm.

Tickets for this captivating concert will be on sale soon. Don't miss your chance to be part of this historic season closer, where the past and present merge in a celebration of love, loss, and the timeless power of music.

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Some talents burn out early: they are celebrated as long as great art is paired with early youth, after which they are forgotten. This does not apply to the three composers of this evening - with one exception: Clara Schumann was celebrated as a virtuoso during her lifetime, but she did not receive lasting recognition for her compositions until the 20th century. One critic even rejected the review of her 1837 piano concerto "because we are dealing with the work of a lady". Schumann took Mendelssohn's first trio of 1839 as an opportunity to praise his fellow composer as the "Mozart of the 19th century". Clara Schumann wrote her only piano trio in 1845 at the age of 25 - a year before her husband Robert composed his first trio, which was heavily influenced by her work. Lera Auerbach, born in Siberia in 1973 and now living in New York, writes music using what initially seem like traditional means and forms. Her powerful first trio from 1992 gives no indication that we are dealing with the work of a woman.

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In 2023, Raphaela Gromes released a CD with only works by female composers: Femmes . Now, together with pianist Julian Riem, she is adding the male side. Beethoven's variations on Mozart's Bei Männer, Welche Liebe Gefühl , testify to the attraction between the poles. The cello sonata by Marie Helene Liebmann, born in Berlin in 1795, is also about love: the emotional piece was written around the time of her marriage, and the final movement is a variation of the great seduction duet by Mozart's womanizer Don Giovanni with Zerlina: La ci darem la mano . The combination of Clara Schumann and Johannes Brahms in the second part of the program speaks for itself - even though Clara dedicated her three romances to the violinist Joseph Joachim and even though Brahms' passionately mournful second cello sonata deals with the rejection by the alto Helene Spieß. Johannes Wiedenhofer, who despite his youth is already celebrated in the first classical league (BR Symphony Orchestra under Simon Rattle), sets a contemporary accent