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Encounter: Music and Madness - Insights on Schumann Performance Date: Thu, August 12th 10 Directions Full Details Performance Time: 12:30 pm Ticket Price: FREE Venue Name: Athenaeum Music & Arts Library About How and why did Schumann descend into insanity? Does his music show evidence of a faltering mind? UCSD Professor of Comparative Literature Steven Cassedy followed by Benjamin K. Roe, general manager of WDAV-FM in North Carolina and former head of classical music at NPR, explore Schumann's life and the world around him to reveal a nuanced picture of the breakdown that haunted his marriage and destroyed his creativity.

 

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