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Mutual Inspirations: Robert, Clara, Heinrich 5 January 2007 at 7.00 pm Venue: Music Hall, Guildhall School of Music & Drama <http://www.gsmd.ac.uk/school/location.html> Silk Street, Barbican, London EC2 The IGRS, in collaboration with the new Institute of Musical Research, is putting on an event on 5 January 2007, dedicated to Robert and Clara Schumann, and Heinrich Heine. The acclaimed pianist Gottlieb Wallisch returns to the Guildhall School of Music and Drama for this event, where he will be partnered by the young tenor Jan Kobow. Although Schumann and Heine met only once, the artistic affinity was such that Schumann set a large number of Heine's lyric poems, revelling in their ambiguity and their veiled meanings. The Schumann marriage provided a second artistic dialogue, with Schumann embedding secret messages to Clara in his piano music, and Clara writing music based on themes by Robert. The first half of the January event, which commemorates the deaths of Robert and Heinrich in 1856, and Clara in 1896, will contain the most extended of Clara's tributes to her husband: the hauntingly beautiful Variations on a Theme of Robert Schumann, Op 20. In the second half we shall hear Robert's Dichterliebe, with its 16 Heine settings arranged as Clara once recommended, together with the 4 songs which Robert eventually deleted from the cycle. Readings in German and English will be interspersed throughout the evening. This event has been made possible through a grant from the University of London's John Coffin Fund, and the IMR and IGRS are greatly indebted to Dame Janet Ritterman for undertaking the programme planning. Admission, with refreshments, is free of charge. Tickets are obtainable until 14 December, by any of the following routes. o POST. You can send a self-addressed and stamped envelope to Mrs Valerie James, Institute of Musical Research, School of Advanced Study, Senate House, Malet Street, London WC1E 7HU, remembering to indicate number of tickets required; o EMAIL. You can email Rosemary Lambeth at [log in to unmask] <mailto:[log in to unmask]> , remembering to indicate number of tickets need and where they should be posted; o PHONE. You can phone the IGRS at 020 7862 8677. If necessary, please leave a message indicating number of tickets required, where they should be sent, and a phone number in case of queries. For further details, please get in touch with Valerie James or Rosemary Lambeth. Venue: Music Hall, Guildhall School of Music & Drama <http://www.gsmd.ac.uk/school/location.html> , Silk Street, Barbican, London EC2 Rosemary Lambeth Institute of Germanic & Romance Studies School of Advanced Study, University of London Senate House, Malet Street, London WC1E 7HU Tel: 020 7862 8677; fax 020 7862 8672 Web: http://igrs.sas.ac.uk