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DTSTART:20180120T133000Z
DTEND:20180120T133000Z
DTSTAMP:20180118T111403Z
URL:https://poonamusic.com/events/brahms-comes-dinner/
SUMMARY:Brahms Comes to Dinner - A Book reading from TRIO
DESCRIPTION:A Book reading from TRIO by author Boman Desai\, with musical e
 xtracts\n\nTRIO by Boman Desai is the story of three musical geniuses: Rob
 ert and Clara Schumann\, and Johannes Brahms. Clara married Robert with wh
 om she fell in love when she was just sixteen\, though it meant challengin
 g the iron will of her father who wished her to marry an earl or a count\,
  certainly not an impoverished composer. The Schumanns had eight children 
 and Robert’s greatness as a composer was never in doubt\, but he was als
 o mentally ill\, attempted suicide\, and finally incarcerated himself in a
 n asylum where he died two and a half years later. Johannes Brahms entered
  the picture shortly before the incarceration and fell deeply in love with
  Clara\, but was just as deeply indebted to Robert for getting his first s
 ix opuses published within weeks of their meeting.\n\nBoman Desai was born
  and raised in Bombay (now Mumbai)\, but has lived his adult life in Chica
 go. After studying Architecture and Philosophy\, and getting degrees in Ps
 ychology and English\, he was set to become a market analyst when a chance
  encounter with Sir Edmund Hillary\, his earliest hero\, brought him back 
 to his vocation: writing novels. He took a number of part time jobs rangin
 g from bartending to auditing to teaching to find time to write. He got hi
 s first break when an elegant elderly woman personally submitted a number 
 of his stories to the editor-in-chief of Debonair magazine in Bombay. The 
 stories were all published\, but the woman disappeared and her identity re
 mains a mystery to this day. He has published fiction and nonfiction in th
 e US\, UK\, and India. His work has won awards from the Illinois Arts Coun
 cil\, Stand Magazine\, Dana\, Noemi\, War Poems\, and New Millennium (amon
 g others). He has taught fiction at Truman College\, Roosevelt University\
 , and the University of Southern Maine. He is also an amateur musician and
  songwriter.\n\nThis evening will be dedicated to Boman’s dear friend an
 d composer Shiv Mathur.\n\n
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LOCATION:Mazda Hall\, Sardar Dastur Hoshang Boys High School\, Pune\, India
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