Dangerous Dreams: The Arts of Anxiety
Friday, March 27, 2009 at 10:00

Orchestra Hall, Symphony Center
Optional lunch (by reservation) at the Art Institute
Cost: Seminar $30, Luncheon $24

The lifetime of Edvard Munch (1863–1944) witnessed creative ferment in all forms of art and thought, including the Symbolist movement, the rise of nationalism,the dawn of psychoanalysis, and the age of Expressionism. The exhibition Becoming Edvard Munch: Influence, Anxiety, and Myth serves as the point of departure for a study of the music, poetry, and visual art of this complex and turbulent era. The event will be hosted by Jeffrey Nigro, Director of Adult Programs in the Department of Museum Education for the AIC, and Gerard McBurney, Beyond the Score® Creative Director for the CSO. Discussion of the art and music of the times will be woven with images of art by Munch and his contemporaries; the poetry of Ibsen and Dehmel; songs by Grieg, Sibelius and Schoenberg; and conclude with Schoenberg's stunning Verklärte Nacht, op. 4 for string sextet.

_{Edvard Munch. The Scream, 1895. Clarence Buckingham Collection.}