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05/04/2017 12:01 AMClassical music historian Jeffrey Engel returns to the Essex library to present a lecture on “Dvorák, The Happy Soul” on Tuesday, May 9 at 1:30 p.m.
Antonín Leopold Dvorák was the happiest and least neurotic of the Romantics. He was barely literate and hardly a deep thinker. Locomotives were his chief passion outside of music. The cheery Czech was greatly influenced by his native folk culture, which inspired him to write a plethora of tuneful compositions. Jeffrey Engel will detail Dvorák’s life and play excerpts of his music.
Engel, adjunct professor at the University of Connecticut in Torrington, is a music historian and orchestral cellist who trained in Paris and Austria before returning to the U.S. to teach. He was selected as one of the 50 most influential people in Litchfield County, Connecticut by Litchfield Magazine in 2010.
This program is free and open to the public. For more information, or to register, please call the Essex Library at 860-767-1560. The Essex library is located at 33 West Avenue in Essex.