Life with Robert Schumann
Sat, Apr 19
|Sudler Hall, Yale University
Join pianists Daniel Jung and Cristian Makhuli on a journey through the life of Robert Schumann!
Time & Location
Apr 19, 2025, 7:30 PM
Sudler Hall, Yale University, 470 College St, New Haven, CT 06511, USA
About the event
The project Life with Robert Schumann is a joint concert with two YoungArts Awards Recipients: Daniel Jung and Cristian Makhuli. The concert aims to create an intimate experience of Schumann through a program that captures the journey of Schumann’s life from youth to death.
After a prelude featuring a four-hands duet by Schumann, the program begins with Schumann’s Kinderszenen (Scenes from Childhood). This piece captures the early experiences and characters of Schumann’s childhood both through a lens of first-hand experience and second-hand reminiscence during adulthood.
The concert transitions into Schumann’s Humoreske, a reflection of Schumann’s interior emotional landscape, capturing the blend of humor with contrasting emotional states – from joy to melancholy, agitation to serenity. This section captures the interplay between Schuman’s two personas: Florestan (the fiery, extroverted side) and Eusebius (the dreamy, introspective side).
The concert ends with Schumann’s Geistervariationen (Ghost Variations), his final composition before his confinement in a mental…