Age of Astonishment: Music and Visual Art in the Belle Époque

Europe’s Belle Époque, which spanned the late nineteenth century to World War I, was an astonishing moment of creative richness. Visual artists and musicians including Matisse, Debussy, Picasso, Stravinksy, Kandinsky, Schoenberg, Toulouse-Lautrec, Satie, and Mucha, and dancers and choreographers from the Ballets Russes, established standards of avant-garde production that continue to challenge artists and engage audiences to this day.

Ethel Hammer holds a Ph.D. in art history from the University of Chicago and was a Parisian correspondent to “Art in America.” Stephen Kleiman is a classical composer who has conducted in America and throughout France, and who spent years of his professional musical life in Paris. 

Four sessions, $135.

Materials List
Recommended:
McAuliffe, Mary. Dawn of the Belle Epoque: The Paris of Monet, Zola, Bernhardt, Eiffel, Debussy, Clemenceau, and Their Friends.
Rowman & Littlefield, 2011. ISBN: 978-1442209275 

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