Kayleen Asbo, Ph.D
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Flowers in the Shadows:

Women Composers and Artists 


​The Petaluma Historical Museum
20 Fourth Street, Petaluma

March 2, 9 and 16





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In honor of Women's History Month, Mythica and the Petaluma Historical Museum will be co-producing  a three week series entitled "Flowers in the Shadows". This Wednesday salon series will bring together fascinating lectures and performances on women composers and painters throughout history.  Featured will be the Medieval Abbess, Visionary Scientist and  Illuminator Hildegard of Bingen, one of the first composers we know by name; Clara Schumann and Fanny Mendelsson, two profoundly gifted composers of the 19th century who were overshadowed by the men in their lives; Artemesia Gentileschi, a Baroque painter who used the tragedies of her life as inspiration to create images of  female strength and power  and Georgia O'Keeffe, whose joyous paintings of flowers in the desert were a visual response to her experience of "seeing sound" and "hearing color" when she listened to  classical music. Each class will feature explorations of both art and music, interwoven with poetry and culminating in performances by guest artists. 

March 2, morning: The Music of Kassia and Hildegard of Bingen
March 2, afternoon: The Art of Hildegard of Bingen

With guest performer Karen Clark, contralto
 
March 9, morning: Fanny Mendelssohn Hensel and Clara Wieck Schumann 
March 9, afternoon: The Art of Artemisia Gentileschi and the Music of Francesca Caccini

With guest performer Bonnie Brooks, mezzo-soprano
 
March 16, morning: The Musical Inspiration of Georgia O’Keeffe 
March 16, afternoon: Courts and Courtesans:: Anne Boleyn, Barbara Strozzi , Marianne Martinez and Maria von Paradis
With guest performer Julija Zibrat, violin

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 $25 per class at the door
Contact Kayleen Asbo: mythicamuse@gmail.com
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  • Pilgrimages
    • The Blessing Thread 1: Mary Magdalene and the Contemplative Tradition: Provence
    • Pilgrimage 2: Wales and Ireland >
      • Schedule and Links
    • The Way of the Hermit
  • The Heroine's Path
    • Ariadne's Thread
    • Queens of Heaven and Earth
    • The Map of the Heroine's Path
  • Online Classes
    • 22 Days of Magdalene
    • The Mystic Path and Poetry of T.S. Eliot >
      • Week One: Prophet of Despair
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  • Psyche and Eros