Music In the Great North Woods, Theatre North collaborate for major event in Gorham

Pianist, Michie Akin, artistic director of the Arts District Chorale in Dallas, Texas, and a favorite artist in our area during the summer will offer a rare and beautiful event to the North Country, in collaboration with Theatre North. Entitled "Mysteries of Artful Passion", this unique music-dramatic event will explore the entangled relationships between three towering geniuses of German Romanticism: Robert Schumann, his wife Clara Wieck, and Johannes Brahms. These three ...Pianist, Michie Akin, artistic director of the Arts District Chorale in Dallas, Texas, and a favorite artist in our area during the summer will offer a rare and beautiful event to the North Country, in collaboration with Theatre North. Entitled "Mysteries of Artful Passion", this unique music-dramatic event will explore the entangled relationships between three towering geniuses of German Romanticism: Robert Schumann, his wife Clara Wieck, and Johannes Brahms. These three figures stand among the giants of nineteenth-century composers and pianists, yet their little-known personal lives and the impact of their most intimate passions had an enormous impact on their creative output.

Rarely-performed vocal and solo piano works will be accompanied by dramatic readings from their journals and over 20,000 letters exchanged between Robert, Clara and Johannes, revealing an inseparable relationship between their personal lives and the music they created. Actors portraying Robert and Clara Schumann and Johannes Brahms include Jacki Scott, Andre Belanger, and Dick Conway.