{"id":2441832,"date":"2019-03-18T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2019-03-18T06:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.aspentimes.com\/?p=301662"},"modified":"2019-03-18T00:00:00","modified_gmt":"2019-03-18T06:00:00","slug":"syrovatkova-to-perform-at-wheeler","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kspn\/local-news\/syrovatkova-to-perform-at-wheeler\/","title":{"rendered":"Syrovatkova to perform at Wheeler"},"content":{"rendered":"
Karolina Syrovatkova as Clara Schumann in “Variatons on Love,” which she will perform Tuesday at the Wheeler Opera House.<\/strong>
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For her acclaimed \u201cGreat Women in Music\u201d series, Karolina Syrovatkova<\/a> marshals her skills as a concert pianist, actor and scholar to illuminate the forgotten contributions of women to the history of classical music.<\/p>\n

Her \u201cVariations on Love\u201d is a dramatic performance \u2014 a hybrid one-woman show and concert \u2014 that brings to life Clara Schumann, tracking her life from her days as a child prodigy through the love triangle between her, Robert Schumann and Johannes Brahms. Syrovatkova will perform the piece Tuesday at the Wheeler Opera House.<\/p>\n

She developed the \u201cGreat Women\u201d series to appeal both to classical music aficionados and to the uninitiated. The stories of these talented women and the dramatic productions, she hopes, will draw people who don\u2019t know the music and wouldn\u2019t normally attend a recital.<\/p>\n

\u201cThese kinds of performances are very immersive,\u201d she said. \u201cThe things I\u2019ve been hearing from people are comments like, \u2018I was really transported into Clara\u2019s living room in the 19th century,\u2019 and, \u2018I felt like I was sitting there with her.\u2019\u201d<\/p>\n

The series also has included entries on Caroline von Esterhazy, Fanny Mendelssohn, Olga Janacek, Vitezslava Kapralova and Anna Magdalena Bach.<\/p>\n

\u201cThey had their own voices and they didn\u2019t get recognition in their lifetimes,\u201d she said of her subjects. \u201cSo I can give them a voice and I can help people to realize how amazing they were.\u201d<\/p>\n

She\u2019s studied their lives deeply, in order to write these dramatic concerts and play these women on stage.<\/p>\n

\u201cI read everything about the composers, I try to find out \u2014 like a detective \u2014 what was going on in their lives because all of that matters in how I play the music,\u201d she said.<\/p>\n

Clara Schumann, Syrovatkova said, is an ideal subject. While most women struggled to be recognized for their work in music composition and performance in 19th century Europe, she excelled as a concert pianist and composer \u2014 out-earning her father and Robert Schumann.<\/p>\n

Along with her artistic brilliance and stardom, Clara\u2019s life is punctuated with melodramatic episodes. When she fell in love with Robert Schumann, her father forbade her from seeing the penniless ne\u2019er-do-well for an 18-month period. Unable to communicate, even by letter, he wrote his timeless Fantasy in C Major for her, embedding the piece with secret messages in it for his beloved that she would understand. The pair would become the power couple of music\u2019s Romantic era. Years later, after Robert Schumann died after a long struggle with mental illness, the composer Johannes Brahms fell in love with her and attempted to woo her.<\/p>\n

\u201cHe wanted to marry her, but she said, \u2018Absolutely not,\u2019\u201d said Syrovatkova.<\/p>\n

Her productions aim to reach a general audience through these soap opera-like storylines and the weirder-than-fiction stories of composers\u2019 lives, providing an entry point for new listeners and bringing fresh ears to the often-intimidating world of classical concert halls.<\/p>\n

\u201cI want them to feel comfortable and one way to do that is to bring them into the drama,\u201d she said. \u201cIt puts them at ease.\u201d<\/p>\n

atravers@aspentimes.com<\/p>\n

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Karolina Syrovatkova as Clara Schumann in “Variatons on Love,” which she will perform Tuesday at the Wheeler Opera House.Courtesy photo For her acclaimed \u201cGreat Women in Music\u201d series, Karolina Syrovatkova marshals her skills as a concert pianist, actor and scholar to illuminate the forgotten contributions of women to the history of classical music. Her \u201cVariations […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[49],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-2441832","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-local-news"},"acf":[],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-06-15 11:47:48","action":"change-status","newStatus":"draft","terms":[],"taxonomy":"category","extraData":[]},"publishpress_future_workflow_manual_trigger":{"enabledWorkflows":[]},"distributor_meta":false,"distributor_terms":false,"distributor_media":false,"distributor_original_site_name":"KSPN The Valley's Quality Rock","distributor_original_site_url":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kspn","push-errors":false,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kspn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2441832","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kspn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kspn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kspn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kspn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2441832"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kspn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2441832\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kspn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2441832"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kspn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2441832"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kspn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2441832"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}