The Jane Austen Playlist: Music in Austen’s Life and Literature
When:
Sunday, February 8
4-6pm
Admission:
Adults: $45
Details:
Step inside Boscobel’s Historic House Museum, lit by candlelight for an intimate evening of music and literary discovery as pianist Laura Klein brings the soundscape of Jane Austen’s world to life on Boscobel’s rare 1815 square piano.
Featuring works that would have been familiar and beloved during the late 18th and early 19th centuries, this special concert traces the role of music across her life—from the Regency drawing rooms she knew to the narratives woven throughout her novels that continue to inspire to this day. Austen played the pianoforte throughout her life and often incorporated music into her novels. Interspersed with the performance on Boscobel’s own pianoforte, Klein will share insights into Austen’s life and the ways music shaped some of her most iconic works.
Hosted within the very rooms where this music once echoed in the early 19th century, this program offers a rare opportunity to experience Austen’s era as it was heard.
This is part of our larger Winter Sunday Salons: a series of public programs that invite curiosity and connection through history, literature, music, and culture. Offering a range of performances, lectures, and interactive events, this season’s salons commemorate the 250th birthday of Jane Austen and her enduring legacy.
My name is Laura Klein and as a pianist and musicologist, I cover a wide array of musical skills. I offer piano lessons in a creative environment that inspires musical growth, working with students and musicians of all ages and levels to foster growth and excellence in music study and performance. I am passionate about historical and modern performance while providing a vast array of solo and collaborative experiences in musical settings. I research and curate from various eras, specializing in the historical performance practices and dissemination of eighteenth-century keyboard music in the British Isles.
A Ph.D. in Musicology pre-candidate and a Nationally Certified Teacher of Music through Music Teachers National Association, I have a Master of Music in Piano Pedagogy and Performance from Westminster Choir College (Princeton, NJ) and Bachelor of Music in Piano Performance from Mars Hill University (Mars Hill, NC). With over 20 years’ teaching experience, my students have performed throughout the US and won highest honors in competitions and festivals. An active pianist, I have performed extensively in the US, as well as Canada, the UK, Austria, and the Czech Republic. The founder of The Jane Austen Playlist, my research focuses on the music in the Austen Family Music Books that was collected by Jane Austen and the female members of her family.
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