{"id":58697,"date":"2020-02-12T15:57:33","date_gmt":"2020-02-12T22:57:33","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/in.nau.edu\/news\/?p=58697"},"modified":"2020-02-12T15:57:33","modified_gmt":"2020-02-12T22:57:33","slug":"for-love-of-you","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/in.nau.edu\/news\/for-love-of-you\/","title":{"rendered":"&#8216;For Love of You:&#8217; Pianist Lara Downes honors the late Clara Schumann"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Celebrate the 200<sup>th<\/sup> anniversary of the late pianist and composer Clara Schumann with a performance featuring Lara Downes on piano. The NAU School of Music, along with the NAU Women\u2019s and Gender Studies, welcomes Downes for the performance of her work, \u201cClara Schumann: For Love of You\u201d at 7:30 p.m. on Feb. 17 in Kitt Recital Hall.<\/p>\n<p>The New York Times describes Downes\u2019 playing as \u201cluscious, moody and dreamy.\u201d As a chart-topping recording artist, she is respected for thought-provoking musical projects. In the past, she recorded \u201cAmerica Again,\u201d named to the \u201c10 Albums that Saved 2016\u201d list by NPR. Her recent project, \u201cFor Love of You,\u201d honors the music of Schumann alongside works from other vital women composers during the last century.<\/p>\n<p>Schumann, born in 1819, was a 9-year-old child prodigy pianist. She was one of the first women to sustain a career in music and worked as a pioneering artist, concert pianist and composer. In addition to her music, she was a mother to eight children whom she raised on her own after the death of her husband, Robert Schumann, in 1856.<\/p>\n<p>Tickets for the performance can be purchased ahead of time through the <a href=\"https:\/\/nau.edu\/cto\">Central Ticket Office<\/a>. Adults are $25. Seniors, NAU faculty and staff are $17.50. Children (17 years and under) and NAU\/CCC students are free with a valid ID. A $2 processing fee with be added to tickets purchased at the door. Parking passes can be purchased through <a href=\"https:\/\/in.nau.edu\/university-transit-services\/\">University Transit Services<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"search-results-excerpt-link\" href=\"https:\/\/in.nau.edu\/news\/for-love-of-you\/\">Celebrate the 200th anniversary of the late pianist and composer Clara Schumann with a performance featuring Lara Downes on piano. The NAU School of Music, along with the NAU Women\u2019s and Gender Studies, welcomes Downes for the performance of her work, \u201cClara Schumann: For Love of You\u201d at 7:30 p.m. on Feb. 17 in Kitt&hellip;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":75,"featured_media":58700,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-58697","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-happenings"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/in.nau.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/58697","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/in.nau.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/in.nau.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/in.nau.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/75"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/in.nau.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=58697"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/in.nau.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/58697\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/in.nau.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/58700"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/in.nau.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=58697"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/in.nau.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=58697"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/in.nau.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=58697"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}