A Novelist’s Playlist: The Music of Jane Austen

📅 Thursday, November 20, 11:45 a.m. to 1:15 p.m.

📍 Iowa City Public Library, Meeting Room A

(123 South Linn Street, Iowa City, IA 52240)

Join us for coffee and cookies at 11:45 a.m. The talk will begin at 12:15 p.m.
(Note: This is an in-person event, unfortunately no Zoom available.)

Every reader of the novels of Jane Austen knows that a proper heroine plays the pianoforte. But what did Austen actually know about music? In this lecture-recital, musicologist Marian Wilson Kimber will explore the music owned by the renowned novelist, including compositions she copied out to play herself. Wilson Kimber will be accompanied by soprano Sarah Hachtman singing elegant and witty eighteenth-century songs from Austen’s personal collection.