Before the era of recorded sound, people made music in their homes. Middle and upper-class women were expected to play keyboard and other instruments as part of their “proper education”. Some, Like Clara Schumann, became world-renowned recitalists. This edition of Art Talk will focus on representations of piano playing, starting in the Renaissance with the piano’s predecessor, the virginal (harpsichord, clavichord), going up to present-day images.

*This talk is dedicated to Alfred Brendel (in memoriam) and Jeffrey Middleton.

Robert Bunkin is a painter, curator, art historian, and educator, with a BS from CUNY and an MFA from Mason Gross School of the Arts, Rutgers University. He has taught art history and studio art in several NYC art schools, universities, colleges, and museums.

Time: 6:00 pm EST

Free!

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