Kayleen Asbo, Ph.D
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French Rhapsody: Turn of the Century Paris

Summer School Salons of Music and Art
Norm Cram Hall, 530 C Street, Petaluma

 10:00-11:30 Musical Mornings
1:00-2:30 Art-filled Afternoons

The years between 1888- 1919 saw an explosion of creativity in the capital of France. From the moonlit serenity of Debussy's Claire de Lune and the hypnotic tranquility of Satie's Les Gymnopedies to Stravinsky's riot-causing Rite of Spring, classical music underwent a profound shift, embracing new ideas of harmony, rhythm, melody and meaning.
In art,  Monet painted in a white-hot fervor to capture the ephemeral beauty of light, while Renoir and Degas sought to celebrate the spontaneous, every day moments of ordinary women at the piano or  dancers lacing up their ballet slippers. The World's Fair ushered in a fascination with cultures of the East, while a new-found interest in pre-Christian religions led to an exploration of rituals and myths of the pagan world.

Artists, composers, poets and philosophers worked and played side by side, seizing inspiration from one another. Camille Claudel introduced  Claude Debussy to Japanese woodcuts and gamelan music; Erik Satie  told tales about the Minotaur  to Igor Stravinsky while Pablo Picasso sketched them both. It was a time when genius was almost contagious.

 Join Kayleen Asbo and special musical guest Bonnie Brooks as Mythica brings to life the glittering world of Paris!


Wednesday, July 1: Cathedrals and Waterlilies
Music: Debussy
 Art: Claude Monet and Camille Claudel
 
Wednesday, July 8: Dancing Girls
Music: The Surreal Erik Satie
Art: The Muse of Montmartre: Suzanne Valadon, Renoir, Degas and Toulouse-Lautrec
 
Wednesday, July 15: Rites of War and Peace: Harlequins and Doves
Music: Gabriel Faure and Igor Stravinsky 
Art:  Gertrude Stein's Salon and Pablo Picasso 


Drop-in rates:

Each class (morning or afternoon): $25
Entire six class series: $130
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Contact Kayleen Asbo: mythicamuse@gmail.com
  • Home
  • Pilgrimages
    • From Grief to Garden: Holy Week with Mary Magdalene
    • Glastonbury and May Day
    • Mystical Scotland >
      • Beginning Your Pilgrimage
      • Celtic Knots and Illuminated Manuscripts
  • Heroines
    • Esclarmonde of Foix
    • Ariadne's Thread
    • The Map of the Heroine's Path
    • The Art of Lamentation: Isis and Nepthys
    • The Tasks of Psyche
  • Classes
    • Anchored in the Heart >
      • Week One: Drinking From the Well of Virtue
      • Week Two
      • Week Three: Music and Divine Office
      • Week Four: Images and Visions
      • Week Five: Julian of Norwich and Lectio Divina
      • Week 6: Time and Seasons
    • Dante Retreat >
      • Welcome letter
      • Session One: Love, Loss and Longing
      • Session Two: Hot Sins
      • Session Three: Where Our Hearts Grow Cold
      • Session Four: Arriving on the Shores of Humility
      • Session Five: Returning to Innocence
    • 22 Days of Magdalene
    • The Mystic Path and Poetry of T.S. Eliot >
      • Week One: Prophet of Despair
      • Week Two: Beethoven, Dante and Eliot
      • Burnt Norton
      • East Coker
      • Dry Salvages
      • Little Gidding
    • Mary Magdalene and the Movies >
      • Mary Magdalene and the Movies Code
  • Poetry
  • Art
  • About
  • Videos
  • Catherine of Siena