Spring 2014 Concert Series
For those who seek inspiring live music, Studio 59 is proud to announce the Spring 2014 Concert Series.
APRIL
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A great evening of some of the world's most famous music, both classical and popular. Pianist and composer Timothy Wallace will perform
such beloved themes as "Fur Elise" and "Somewhere Over the Rainbow" and others, then improvise variations on each.
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such beloved themes as "Fur Elise" and "Somewhere Over the Rainbow" and others, then improvise variations on each.
> > > > > This concert is being repeated on Saturday, April 26. < < < < <
Themes & Variations
featuring
Timothy Alexandre Wallace, piano
Saturday - April 26, 2014
8:00pm
RSVP: 860-482-6801
TICKETS:
Adults - $20
Students/Seniors - $12
Group rates available!
Classical Themes: Fur Elise, Canon in D, Theme by Paganni, Ode to Joy
Popular Themes: Somewhere Over the Rainbow, Yesterday (Beatles), Maria (West Side Story), When You Wish Upon A Star
featuring
Timothy Alexandre Wallace, piano
Saturday - April 26, 2014
8:00pm
RSVP: 860-482-6801
TICKETS:
Adults - $20
Students/Seniors - $12
Group rates available!
Classical Themes: Fur Elise, Canon in D, Theme by Paganni, Ode to Joy
Popular Themes: Somewhere Over the Rainbow, Yesterday (Beatles), Maria (West Side Story), When You Wish Upon A Star
MAY
Arts Talk @ Studio 59
An exploration of the inspirations of an artist and how those inspirations affect a musician.
An exploration of the inspirations of an artist and how those inspirations affect a musician.
The Color of Inspiration
"The Art of Tom Hlas"
Watch a painting being created on the spot while music is being created spontaneously as each artist provides inspiration for the other.
An interactive evening between
Tom Hlas, artist, and Timothy Wallace, pianist/composer, engaging in lively
conversations and improvised music.
Saturday - May 10, 2014
8:00pm
RSVP: 860-482-6801
TICKETS:
Adults - $20
Students/Seniors - $12
Group rates available!
" . . . a kinship and inspiration in the abstract expressionists, color field painters, and the print makers and minimalist artists of today."
Abstract Mixed Media Paintings
I refer to my paintings as a geography of the heart and mind. Often times my art is informed by memories and my current thoughts. At other times, my paintings are inspired by the colors and sights around me, especially the ever changing sky and rural landscapes.
My work is about a sense of place, a place where one can go to be at home. Perhaps that's why having an experience of depth when one views my art is so important to me.
One can readily see an element or symbol that’s a part of my mark making is a circle which in turn morphs into meandering squiggles, dots, arches and bowl shapes. The circle is a primal mark denoting creation, infinity, unity and wholeness with its sacredness and sensuality.
I find inspiration in childhood memories, family stories, rural life and my Czech heritage. I find a kinship in the abstract expressionists and color field painters of yesteryear as well as the print makers and minimalist artists of today.
"The Art of Tom Hlas"
Watch a painting being created on the spot while music is being created spontaneously as each artist provides inspiration for the other.
An interactive evening between
Tom Hlas, artist, and Timothy Wallace, pianist/composer, engaging in lively
conversations and improvised music.
Saturday - May 10, 2014
8:00pm
RSVP: 860-482-6801
TICKETS:
Adults - $20
Students/Seniors - $12
Group rates available!
" . . . a kinship and inspiration in the abstract expressionists, color field painters, and the print makers and minimalist artists of today."
Abstract Mixed Media Paintings
I refer to my paintings as a geography of the heart and mind. Often times my art is informed by memories and my current thoughts. At other times, my paintings are inspired by the colors and sights around me, especially the ever changing sky and rural landscapes.
My work is about a sense of place, a place where one can go to be at home. Perhaps that's why having an experience of depth when one views my art is so important to me.
One can readily see an element or symbol that’s a part of my mark making is a circle which in turn morphs into meandering squiggles, dots, arches and bowl shapes. The circle is a primal mark denoting creation, infinity, unity and wholeness with its sacredness and sensuality.
I find inspiration in childhood memories, family stories, rural life and my Czech heritage. I find a kinship in the abstract expressionists and color field painters of yesteryear as well as the print makers and minimalist artists of today.
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Awakenings
featuring
Jeanne Ruskin, narrator
Joanne Polk, pianist
Korliss Uecker, soprano
P O S T P O N E D
New date to be announced.
Saturday - May 24, 2014
8:00 pm
RSVP: 860-482-6801
TICKETS:
Adults - $20
Students/Seniors - $12
Group rates available!
“AWAKENINGS” is a performance piece intended to explore the issues of women’s roles in a society which, by historic design and traditional convenience, continues to deflect and often suppress a woman’s intelligence, talent, strength and self-image.
“Awakenings” proposes to address this timely subject through the timeless creations of women who lived through it and who left a provocative legacy of wisdom, compassion, beauty and pain.
The evening is a dramatization of American writer Kate Chopin’s 1899 novel, The Awakening, supported by the compositions of Clara Wieck Schumann, Fanny Mendelssohn-Hensel, Amy Beach, and Pauline Viardot Garcia – artists who, living in the 19th century, were vastly ahead of their time and relatively undervalued by their contemporary culture.
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Relax, sip on a glass of complimentary champagne and hear some great jazz!
...what a great way to wind down the week.
...what a great way to wind down the week.
Jazz & Champagne
Ellington, Basie, Goodman
and beyond!
SWING to BOP
featuring
Kris Jensen, saxophone
Mark Templeton, piano
Thursday - May 29, 2014
7:30pm
RSVP: 860-482-6801
TICKETS:
Adults - $20
Students/Seniors - $12
Group rates available!
Saxophonist, woodwind artist, composer, arranger and educator Kris Jensen is a versatile musician that has forged a diverse musical career with many well known artists.
Ellington, Basie, Goodman
and beyond!
SWING to BOP
featuring
Kris Jensen, saxophone
Mark Templeton, piano
Thursday - May 29, 2014
7:30pm
RSVP: 860-482-6801
TICKETS:
Adults - $20
Students/Seniors - $12
Group rates available!
Saxophonist, woodwind artist, composer, arranger and educator Kris Jensen is a versatile musician that has forged a diverse musical career with many well known artists.
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JUNE
Experience the evolution of Beethoven the composer through select piano sonatas from his Middle Period
Beethoven: Evolution
"Bridge from classicism
to romanticism"
Part 2: The Middle Period (1803-1814)
featuring
Timothy Alexandre Wallace
~ Pianist & Composer ~
Saturday - June 7, 2014
8:00pm
RSVP: 860-482-6801
TICKETS:
Adults - $20
Students/Seniors - $12
Group rates available!
>Tonight's performance will include two of the major piano sonatas from this period: The Tempest and The Appassionata
The Piano Sonata No. 17 in D minor, Op. 31, No. 2, was composed in 1801/02. It is usually referred to as "The Tempest" (or Der Sturm in his native German), but the sonata was not given this title by Beethoven, or indeed referred to as such during his lifetime. The name comes
from a claim by his associate Anton Schindler that the sonata was inspired by the Shakespeare play.
The Piano Sonata No. 23 in F minor, Op. 57 (colloquially known as the Appassionata, meaning "passionate" in Italian) is among the three famous piano sonatas of his middle period (the others being the Waldstein, Op. 53 and Les Adieux, Op. 81a); it was composed during 1804
and 1805, and perhaps 1806, and was dedicated to Count Franz von Brunswick. The first edition was published in February 1807 in Vienna. Unlike the early Sonata No. 8, Pathetique, the Appassionata was not named during the composer's lifetime, but was so labeled in 1838 by
the publisher of a four-hand arrangement of the work. According to Czerny, Beethoven considered it to be his greatest sonata prior to his massive 1819 "Hammerklavier" Sonata No. 29, Op. 106.
Beethoven's Middle (Heroic) period began shortly after Beethoven's personal crisis brought on by his recognition of encroaching deafness.
It includes large-scale works that express heroism and struggle. According to Carl Czerny, Beethoven said, "I am not satisfied with the work
I have done so far. From now on I intend to take a new way."
Here are Beethoven’s own words, according to Elizabeth Brentano (a friend of Goethe and who met Beethoven in 1810):
“When I open my eyes I must sigh, for what I see is contrary to my religion, and I must despise the world which does not know that music
is a higher revelation than all wisdom and philosophy, the wine which inspires one to new generative processes, and I am the Bacchus who presses out this glorious wine for mankind and makes them spiritually drunken. When they are again become sober they have drawn from
the sea all that they brought with them, all that they can bring with them to dry land. I have not a single friend, I must live alone. But well I know that God is nearer to me than to other artists; I associate with Him without fear; I have always recognized and understood Him and
have no fear for my music — it can meet no evil fate. Those who understand it must be freed by it from all the miseries which the others
drag about with themselves.”
Music, verily, is the mediator between intellectual and sensuous life.
“Speak to Goethe about me. Tell him to hear my symphonies and he will say that I am right in saying that music is the one incorporeal entrance into the higher world of knowledge which comprehends mankind but which mankind cannot comprehend.”
"Bridge from classicism
to romanticism"
Part 2: The Middle Period (1803-1814)
featuring
Timothy Alexandre Wallace
~ Pianist & Composer ~
Saturday - June 7, 2014
8:00pm
RSVP: 860-482-6801
TICKETS:
Adults - $20
Students/Seniors - $12
Group rates available!
>Tonight's performance will include two of the major piano sonatas from this period: The Tempest and The Appassionata
The Piano Sonata No. 17 in D minor, Op. 31, No. 2, was composed in 1801/02. It is usually referred to as "The Tempest" (or Der Sturm in his native German), but the sonata was not given this title by Beethoven, or indeed referred to as such during his lifetime. The name comes
from a claim by his associate Anton Schindler that the sonata was inspired by the Shakespeare play.
The Piano Sonata No. 23 in F minor, Op. 57 (colloquially known as the Appassionata, meaning "passionate" in Italian) is among the three famous piano sonatas of his middle period (the others being the Waldstein, Op. 53 and Les Adieux, Op. 81a); it was composed during 1804
and 1805, and perhaps 1806, and was dedicated to Count Franz von Brunswick. The first edition was published in February 1807 in Vienna. Unlike the early Sonata No. 8, Pathetique, the Appassionata was not named during the composer's lifetime, but was so labeled in 1838 by
the publisher of a four-hand arrangement of the work. According to Czerny, Beethoven considered it to be his greatest sonata prior to his massive 1819 "Hammerklavier" Sonata No. 29, Op. 106.
Beethoven's Middle (Heroic) period began shortly after Beethoven's personal crisis brought on by his recognition of encroaching deafness.
It includes large-scale works that express heroism and struggle. According to Carl Czerny, Beethoven said, "I am not satisfied with the work
I have done so far. From now on I intend to take a new way."
Here are Beethoven’s own words, according to Elizabeth Brentano (a friend of Goethe and who met Beethoven in 1810):
“When I open my eyes I must sigh, for what I see is contrary to my religion, and I must despise the world which does not know that music
is a higher revelation than all wisdom and philosophy, the wine which inspires one to new generative processes, and I am the Bacchus who presses out this glorious wine for mankind and makes them spiritually drunken. When they are again become sober they have drawn from
the sea all that they brought with them, all that they can bring with them to dry land. I have not a single friend, I must live alone. But well I know that God is nearer to me than to other artists; I associate with Him without fear; I have always recognized and understood Him and
have no fear for my music — it can meet no evil fate. Those who understand it must be freed by it from all the miseries which the others
drag about with themselves.”
Music, verily, is the mediator between intellectual and sensuous life.
“Speak to Goethe about me. Tell him to hear my symphonies and he will say that I am right in saying that music is the one incorporeal entrance into the higher world of knowledge which comprehends mankind but which mankind cannot comprehend.”
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Relax, sip on a glass of complimentary champagne and hear some great jazz!
...what a great way to wind down the week.
...what a great way to wind down the week.
Jazz & Champagne
Street Songs
The Accordian Project
featuring
Mario Pavone - bass / compositions
Matt Mitchell - piano
Adam Matlock - accordion
Carl Testa - bass.
Steve Johns - drums
Brass Quartet
Dave Ballou - cornet, flugelhorn
Peter McEachern - trombone
Leise Ballou - french horn
Gary Buttery - tuba
Thursday - June 19, 2014
7:30pm
RSVP: 860-482-6801
TICKETS:
Adults - $20
Students/Seniors - $12
The music is based on my reflection of growing up in post WWll industrial and multicultural melting pot in Waterbury,CT ..... and hearing those Italian, Portugese and Polish accordions .... That front stoop music.
"Street Songs" is playful, filled with lively musicianship, strong melodies and many fine solos. Mario Pavone, as both a player and composer, never sells his audience short; instead, he creates stimulating music that is fresh, forceful and filled with life.
. . . review by Step Tempest
The CD will be released worldwide on May 6th (2014) and is already slated for reviews from Jazz Times , all about jazz / nyc and on Owen McNally's. NPR JAZZ CORRIDOR.
"Pavone's music has the rhythmic and harmonic grids of be-bop and all that descends from it, and the cathartic tracing-in-air of free jazz"
Ben Ratliff (New York Times)
Street Songs
The Accordian Project
featuring
Mario Pavone - bass / compositions
Matt Mitchell - piano
Adam Matlock - accordion
Carl Testa - bass.
Steve Johns - drums
Brass Quartet
Dave Ballou - cornet, flugelhorn
Peter McEachern - trombone
Leise Ballou - french horn
Gary Buttery - tuba
Thursday - June 19, 2014
7:30pm
RSVP: 860-482-6801
TICKETS:
Adults - $20
Students/Seniors - $12
The music is based on my reflection of growing up in post WWll industrial and multicultural melting pot in Waterbury,CT ..... and hearing those Italian, Portugese and Polish accordions .... That front stoop music.
"Street Songs" is playful, filled with lively musicianship, strong melodies and many fine solos. Mario Pavone, as both a player and composer, never sells his audience short; instead, he creates stimulating music that is fresh, forceful and filled with life.
. . . review by Step Tempest
The CD will be released worldwide on May 6th (2014) and is already slated for reviews from Jazz Times , all about jazz / nyc and on Owen McNally's. NPR JAZZ CORRIDOR.
"Pavone's music has the rhythmic and harmonic grids of be-bop and all that descends from it, and the cathartic tracing-in-air of free jazz"
Ben Ratliff (New York Times)
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( ( ( ( ( ( ( O ) ) ) ) ) ) ) A Ritual of Inner Peace to Heal the Body, Mind and Soul. ( ( ( ( ( ( ( O ) ) ) ) ) ) )
This event postponed. Date to be announced.
This event postponed. Date to be announced.
Lotus Leaf
Tea Ceremony
featuring
Haiyan
A Certified Tea Master from China and co-founder of Lotus Leaf Tea
Saturday - June 21, 2014
8:00pm
RSVP: 860-482-6801
TICKETS:
Adults - $20
Students/Seniors - $12
Group rates available!
Lotus Leaf Tea Ceremony embodies the basic principles of peace, purity, truthfulness and joy. It is an alternative method to heal the body, mind and soul. Sip and savor the tea's delicate flavor with your heart, let it energize your body and enlighten your soul!
The components of Lotus Leaf Tea Ceremony:
About Chinese Calligraphy: Chinese calligraphy created 6000 years ago is one of the most highly-prized oriental art forms. It is like a painting which uses Chinese brush and ink to write Chinese characters to communicate the natural world and the spiritual world of the artist. The practicing of Chinese calligraphy is like a moving meditation for self development and achieving inner harmony. Chinese calligraphy materials, named as The Four Treasures, consist of ink, brush, ink stone and paper has been known and used in China for thousands of years.
Haiyan, Tea Master of Lotus Leaf Tea demonstrates Chinese calligraphy in a unique way. She starts her presentation by playing her Guzheng music (an ancient Chinese instrument), which will connect the audience to the energy of ancient China. She draws pictures of the natural world, such as mountains, water, sun, moon and bamboo. Then she transforms the pictures into the Chinese characters so people can understand the art form of Chinese calligraphy.
Tea Ceremony
featuring
Haiyan
A Certified Tea Master from China and co-founder of Lotus Leaf Tea
Saturday - June 21, 2014
8:00pm
RSVP: 860-482-6801
TICKETS:
Adults - $20
Students/Seniors - $12
Group rates available!
Lotus Leaf Tea Ceremony embodies the basic principles of peace, purity, truthfulness and joy. It is an alternative method to heal the body, mind and soul. Sip and savor the tea's delicate flavor with your heart, let it energize your body and enlighten your soul!
The components of Lotus Leaf Tea Ceremony:
- Tea Knowledge and Tea Culture
- Tea Ceremony and Tea Tasting
- Artistic Dance-- "The Way of Tea"
- Tea and Ink: Chinese Calligraphy
- Tea Music: Guzheng (an ancient Chinese instrument) Performance
About Chinese Calligraphy: Chinese calligraphy created 6000 years ago is one of the most highly-prized oriental art forms. It is like a painting which uses Chinese brush and ink to write Chinese characters to communicate the natural world and the spiritual world of the artist. The practicing of Chinese calligraphy is like a moving meditation for self development and achieving inner harmony. Chinese calligraphy materials, named as The Four Treasures, consist of ink, brush, ink stone and paper has been known and used in China for thousands of years.
Haiyan, Tea Master of Lotus Leaf Tea demonstrates Chinese calligraphy in a unique way. She starts her presentation by playing her Guzheng music (an ancient Chinese instrument), which will connect the audience to the energy of ancient China. She draws pictures of the natural world, such as mountains, water, sun, moon and bamboo. Then she transforms the pictures into the Chinese characters so people can understand the art form of Chinese calligraphy.
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Guest Artists
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Timothy Alexandre Wallace
Mr. Wallace has enjoyed a rich and rewarding career as a pianist and composer. He has concertized nationally as a soloist, and has performed , composed and arranged music for ballet companies, theatres, schools and churches. Additionally, Mr. Wallace is a private piano instructor, with over 30 years experience teaching students of all ages. He is honored to have students who have continued more intensive study at universities and conservatories in the United States and Europe. In the fall of 2008, he founded the Alexandre School of Piano, dedicated to excellence in the teaching and performance of piano, and only piano. Mr. Wallace is a member of the American Guild of Organists and a performing member of the improvisational group Improvelocity. He is additionally on the Baldwin Roster of Artists. ______________________________________________________________ 
Tom Hlas
Tom Hlas is an abstract painter who works primarily in acrylics and mixed media. His abstract work and often times conceptual titles allow the viewer to draw their own inspiration, meaning, and enjoyment from the work rather than be influenced by the artist's own underlying thoughts and feelings present when he created the work. Born and raised near the small, rural town of Elberon, Iowa, where he grew up the eighth of ten siblings, Tom moved to the Washington, DC area to do postgraduate work and then later to Miami, Florida, and Philadelphia, PA. He now resides in Norfolk, CT. Tom studied drawing and painting with Ken Conley and Laura Conley at the Montgomery Community College in Rockville, Maryland, early in his career. His diverse educational experiences, from a Bachelor degree in Vocal Music and postgraduate studies in philosophy and theology to on-the-job training in the marketing, graphic design and art reproduction world, have all colored his artistic work. He finds a kinship and inspiration in the abstract expressionists, color field painters, and the print makers and minimalist artists of today. In both 2009 and 2010, he was awarded a one-month artist residency at the Vermont Studio Center in Johnson, Vermont. ______________________________________________________________
JOANNE POLK (Pianist) has been catapulted into the public eye
with her recordings of the complete piano works of American composer Amy Beach.
The first recording in the Beach
series, by the still waters,
received the 1998 INDIE award for best solo recording. She
celebrated the centennial of Beach’s Piano Concerto in C-sharp minor by giving
the work its London
premiere with the English Chamber Orchestra. Songs of Amy Beach,
recorded with baritone Patrick Mason for Bridge Records, was nominated for a 2007 Grammy Award. Ms. Polk’s two-CD
set of solo piano music by Fanny Mendelssohn Hensel was released on the Newport
Classic label in 2010. Her most recent solo piano CD, titled Fanny and Felix Mendelssohn, was
released in June, 2012 on the Bridge Records label. She is a member of the
piano faculty at the Manhattan School of Music.
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KORLISS UECKER (Soprano) has performed extensively with the Metropolitan Opera,
including Susanna in The Marriage of
Figaro (NPR broadcast), Marzelline in Fidelio,
Oscar in A Masked Ball, and
Valencienne in The Merry Widow. She
sang in a telecast of The Elixir of Love
with Pavarotti, and has performed with Placido Domingo numerous times.
Other opera houses include Strasbourg, France; Opera de Monte Carlo; Ireland’s Wexford Festival; Santa Fe Opera; Spoleto Festival; Ravinia Festival; Pittsburgh Opera; and Washington Opera (DC). She has recorded for Deutsche Grammophone, London Decca, Arabesque Records, and has appeared on Live from Lincoln Center. Her CD with Joanne Polk, Completely Clara: Lieder by Clara Wieck Schumann, released on the Arabesque label, was selected as a “Best of the Year” recording by The Seattle Times and was featured on Performance Today on New York Public Radio. ______________________________________________________________
JEANNE RUSKIN (Narrator), who has conceptualized “Awakenings” and
is its adaptor and dramatizer, is a theatre professional of more than
thirty-five years standing, with acting credits ranging from Broadway (original
production of Equus) to
off-off-Broadway, regional theatre, film and television, and performances in Russia. As an
educator, she has a BFA from NYU School of the Arts, MFAs from Carnegie-Mellon
University and MXAT (Moscow Art Theatre) Studio, and has taught voice
& speech and acting at major colleges and universities in the Northeast. The
founder and artistic director of RFTC, Inc/Red Flute Theatre Company, based in New York City, she has
produced original works and adaptations/translations of plays by established
playwrights, such as Pam Gems and Marguerite Duras. Also a poet, she has given
public readings of her poetry in venues around the country. She coaches acting
privately.
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Peter Ferreira Critically acclaimed concert violinist, recording artist, composer and author, Peter Ferreira (born: Pedro Ferreira), has been a very active violinist since the age of 6, inspired by his grandfather, also a violinist. He entered the Conservatorio De Musica in Coimbra, Portugal, where he studied with teacher Dario Peixoto.
Peter Ferreira is described in Comunidades USA Magazine as one of the most celebrated Portuguese-born violinist of the modern era... Since a very young age, Peter spent his formative years training as a classical musician, surrounded by many of the violin masters of the ages... From J.S. Bach to Piazzolla, Peter's astounding energy and infectious passion along with his seasoned golden tone performances have an abundant hot Mediterranean influence, sure to captivate the audience! Although classically trained, Peter is equally comfortable performing classical music as he is playing rock, jazz, tango, world music or his own Portuguese folk idiom and is a rare musician who defies definition. A kind of universal musician so rarely encountered in our time. As a soloist, Mr. Ferreira has been repeatedly praised for the beauty of is tone, the depth and flair of his musicianship, and his rare balance of virtuosity and sensitivity. He has performed as soloist with orchestras and ensembles in the United States, Canada, South America and Europe. He founded the Dresden String Quartet in 1998, and performed as its first violinist through 2002. ______________________________________________________________
KATE CHISHOLM (Director) has directed original works at Prospect Theater
Company, The Culture Project, La MaMa, Joe’s Pub, Baltimore Theatre Project,
and the Yale British Art
Center. As a writer, Kate
won a Richard Rodgers Award from the American
Academy of Arts and
Letters and received a Barrymore nomination for Outstanding New Play for The Hidden Sky (music and lyrics by
Peter Foley). She is a New Georges Affiliated Artist, a member of
the Lincoln Center Theater Director’s Lab, and an alumna of the St. Ann’s Warehouse
Puppet Lab, where she created and designed Newton’s
Universe. She has received grants from Theater Instituut Nederlands, the US/ Netherlands Touring & Exchange Project,
and St. Ann's Warehouse (Brooklyn, NY).
Kate holds a BA from Yale University
and an MFA in Theatre from Towson
University.
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American
author Kate Chopin (1850–1904) wrote
two published novels and about a hundred short stories in the 1890s. Most of
her fiction is set in Louisiana
and most of her best-known work focuses on the lives of sensitive, intelligent
women. By the late 1890s Kate Chopin was well known among American readers of
magazine fiction. Her
early novel At Fault (1890) had not
been much noticed by the public, but The
Awakening (1899) was widely condemned. Critics called it morbid, vulgar,
and disagreeable. However, by the 1950s scholars and others recognized that the
novel is an insightful and moving work of fiction. Such readers set in motion a
Kate Chopin revival, one of the more remarkable literary revivals in the United States.
She is today understood as a classic writer who speaks eloquently to
contemporary concerns, and The Awakening
is taught widely in colleges and universities.
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