Dr. Richard Kogan: Schumann: Music, Mood Swings & Madness

Name: Dr. Richard Kogan: Schumann: Music, Mood Swings & Madness
Start: 2025-09-21T15:00:00-04:00
Location: 140 N 5th St, Reading, PA, United States, Pennsylvania 19601

The WCR Center for the Arts

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Sun, 21 Sep, 2025 at 03:00 pm

140 N 5th St, Reading, PA, United States, Pennsylvania 19601

Date & Location

Sun, 21 Sep, 2025 at 03:00 pm (EDT)

140 N 5th St, Pennsylvania 19601

140 N 5th St, Reading, PA 19601-3402, United States

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Dr. Richard Kogan: Schumann: Music, Mood Swings & Madness

Creative artists are especially vulnerable to mental illness, and the German composer Robert Schumann is one of the finest examples of the blurred boundary between genius and insanity. Dr. Kogan explores how the racing thoughts, flight of ideas and sharpened imagination of Schumann’s hypomanic states induced prodigious bursts of creativity until the onset of psychosis led to his tragic final years in an insane asylum. Free, please RSVP.

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