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<div>PROUST IN LOVE ~ The Story of Marcel Proust and Reynaldo Hahn</div>
<div><br></div><div style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-size: 18.6667px; font-family: times new roman,new york,times,serif; background-color: transparent; font-style: normal;">"Everything I have ever done has always been thanks to
Reynaldo." Marcel Proust</div>
<div>By the age of nineteen in 1894, the musical child prodigy,
Reynaldo Hahn, had written many songs about love; however, his
worldly sophistication masked shyness about his own personal
feelings. He had close intimate friendships with women but he
reportedly loved them only at a distance his whole life. <br>1894 was
to prove a fateful year for Hahn. At the home of artist Madeleine
Lemaire, he met an aspiring writer three years older than himself.
The writer was the then little-known, "highly strung and snobby"
Marcel Proust. Proust and Hahn shared a love for painting,
literature, and the composer, Frederic Chopin. They became lovers and
often traveled together and collaborated on various projects. One of
those projects, <span style="font-style: italic;">Portraits de Peintres</span> (1896), is a work consisting of
spoken text with piano accompaniment.</div>
<div> Although by the end of 1896, they were no longer lovers, after
their bitterness healed they came together again as loving friends
and mutually supportive colleagues until Proust's death in 1922, before the final volumes of his masterpiece - <span style="font-style: italic;">A La Recherche du Temps Perdu</span> - were published.<br></div>
<div style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-size: 18.6667px; font-family: times new roman,new york,times,serif; background-color: transparent; font-style: normal;"> The text of this WordStage production has been adapted from the
biography 'Proust in Love' by William C. Carter as well as from
letters, diaries and written works of Mracel Proust and Reynaldo
Hahn. Featured performers are Aaron Mucciolo, Tim Collingwood and
Tim Tavcar, and CIM Faculty members, baritone Mark Wanich and pianist Adam
Whiting, who will perform five of Hahn's romantic<i> Chansons</i> and
the music he composed to illustrate Proust's <i>Portraits de Peintres</i></div>
<div><br>The performances will take place at WordStage's West and East Side "home" locations :<br>
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<div>West Side: Friday, February 8, 2013 – 8:00pm</div>
<div>West Shore Unitarian Universalist Church, 20401 Hilliard Blvd.,
Rocky River <br></div><div>East Side: 8:00pm – Saturday, February 9, 2013 – 8:00pm</div>
<div>First Unitarian Church, 21600 Shaker Blvd., Shaker Heights
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<div><br></div><div style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-size: 18.6667px; font-family: times new roman,new york,times,serif; background-color: transparent; font-style: normal;">Reservations are requested, but ticket will be available at the
door.</div>
<div>Ticket are $15.00 general Admission – and WordStage also
maintains a “Pay What You Can” policy to make its performances
available to anyone interested in attending them.
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<div>For reservations and information call 216-712-6926, visit our web
site at <a href="http://www.wordstagevt.com/">www.wordstagevt.com</a>
or email www.wordstagechambermusictheater@gmail.com</div><div><br></div><div style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-size: 18.6667px; font-family: times new roman,new york,times,serif; background-color: transparent; font-style: normal;">(submitted by Tim Tavcar)<br></div>
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