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Schumann - Music, Mood Swings and Madness

Thursday, 10 April, 2025

A University of Scranton Schemel Forum Collaborative Program With the Geisinger Commonwealth School of Medicine

Creative artists are especially vulnerable to mental illness, and the German composer Robert Schumann is one of the finest examples of the blurred boundary between genius and insanity. Dr. Kogan explores how the racing thoughts, flight of ideas and sharpened imagination of Schumann’s hypomanic states induced prodigious bursts of creativity until the onset of psychosis led to his tragic final years in an insane asylum.

Join the Schemel Forum and reknowned professor and performer, Dr. Richard Kogan as he performs Schumann classics combined with an informative and entertaining discussion about Schumann's brilliance and the trajectory of his life.

Richard Kogan, M.D., Professor of Psychiatry, Weill Cornell Medical College, and Artistic Director, Weill Cornell Music and Medicine Program

Geisinger Commonwealth School of Medicine, Auditorium, 133, 525 Pine St., Scranton, Pa., 18509

6:00 p.m., April 10, 2025

Performance, Lecture, and Reception - $40 a la carte. Free for the GCSOM and UofS students, staff, and faculty. No additional charge for Schemel Forum Members, Angels, and Archangels.

To register, call (570) 941-4740 or online at www.scranton.edu/schemelforum 

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Rose Merritt

Phone: 5709414740
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Geisinger Commonwealth School of Medicine

525 Pine St.
 Scranton, PA 18510