Lectures
Society of the Four Arts, Palm Beach, Florida
HISTORY TALKS
This season, 2024-25, Juliette’s series of history talks will discuss the social, political and ideological circumstances which caused sixteen great works of literature to be written and remembered, and the reason for their impact on our culture. The works will be chosen to span the arc of our social history, from Homer’s Iliad and Odyssey to Tolstoy’s War and Peace, and will explore the events that brought them about. Included will be Plato’s The Republic, Caesar’s Gallic Wars, the Confessions of St. Augustine, the Song of Roland, the Arthurian Cycle, the letters of Eloise and Abelard, Machiavelli’s The Prince, Dante‘s Divine Comedy, the Shakespeare plays, the King James Bible, John Bunyan’s Pilgrim’s Progress, Cervantes’ Don Quixote and Diderot’s Encyclopédie.
MUSIC TALKS
The greatest works for the piano will be subject of Juliette's music talks this season. The works analysed will be compositions from the Classical era of Mozart, Beethoven and Schubert through the Romantic period of Chopin and Liszt. Discussed will be the place these works had in the composer’s life and the background for their composition. Also explored will be the technique required for the execution of each, and the interpretive traditions that accompany these most loved works.
