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Music in Willa Cather's Writing

… Image Music in Willa Cather's Writing While not a musician herself, Willa Cather was an avid musical consumer! … herself as she is growing up in Moonstone, Colorado, a fictional community based on Cather’s hometown of Red Cloud, …
Posted: 01/16/2023
Last Updated: 07/09/2023

Willa Cather Childhood Home Dedication & Ribbon-Cutting

… Image Willa Cather Childhood Home | April 2024 Image Willa Cather … follows. Banquet & Readers Theater Tickets To learn more about the recent restoration of the Willa Cather Childhood … Nebraska State Poet Matt Mason will read an original poem about Willa Cather and the house that brings so many of her …
Posted: 05/13/2024
Last Updated: 09/29/2025

69th Annual Willa Cather Spring Conference

… a writer; she enjoyed sharing her book recommendations with friends, and she was pleased by hearing the comments of her own readers. From an early age, she established her …   writes, "The novel reminded me of my insatiable childhood reading habits...Cather had awoken in me a type of …
Posted: 09/21/2023
Last Updated: 06/06/2024

Willa Cather Biography

… Willa Cather Biography A Great American Writer "Miss Cather is … While the reading and understanding of Cather's twelve novels and various other works are the primary attraction, … an explosion, a pest" (Politics 7), listened to these stories and stockpiled the details, not knowing the use she …
Posted: 01/11/2023
Last Updated: 01/09/2024

Willa Cather 150th Birthday Celebration

… activities and events in Brownville, NE in a celebration of Willa Cather, including: Sunday, October 15 at 1:30 pm – … will present “Willa Cather’s Nebraska: How Life Inspired Fiction,” at the Brownville Town Hall • Free admission! … by Willa Cather and adapted by Rachel Curtiss Dinner and music at the Brownville Concert Hall —Menu inspired by Willa …
Posted: 09/10/2023
Last Updated: 10/08/2023

59th Annual Willa Cather Spring Conference

… Prize. The exhibit is organized by the Museum of Nebraska Art, through the ARTreach program. The event will also feature the landscapes … p.m. Foraging on the Cather Prairie 3:00 p.m.-4:30 p.m. Gallery talks with Peter Brown and Catherine Meier 4:30 …
Posted: 07/28/2014
Last Updated: 05/24/2023

65th Annual Willa Cather Spring Conference

… lingering social discord. Into this unsettled world, Willa Cather brought out Youth and the Bright Medusa , her … a day of insightful scholarly presentations, and a musical theater performance of select stories from Youth and … sessions! "Willa Cather, Olive Fremstad, and the Singer in Fiction" Keynote address - Alex Ross, music critic for  The …
Posted: 06/05/2019
Last Updated: 05/24/2023

2014 Willa Cather Spring Conference

… Literary Landscapes: Environments and Ecosystems  The Willa Cather Foundation is pleased to welcome Clay … both within Cather studies and beyond. From her earliest fiction, Cather was closely attuned to the world around her, … on the Willa Cather Memorial Prairie 5:30 p.m. Barbecue and music at the Burlington Depot, featuring Formerly Three of …
Posted: 05/13/2014
Last Updated: 05/24/2023

Willa Cather Review Table of Contents & Index

… Interview in the Lincoln State Journal) p. 2  TITLE: O Pioneers! An Early Nebraska Review, August 13, 1913  AUTHOR: … in 'Rosemary'" p. 2  "Mansfield's 'Shylock"' p. 3  TITLE: O Pioneers! in London: A Review from 1913  AUTHOR: Richard … p. 18  John J. Murphy Publishes a Teacher's Guide to O Pioneers! and My Ántonia p. 18  …
Posted: 01/16/2023
Last Updated: 01/16/2023

Music on the Prairie

… Image Music on the Prairie May 16, 2011 When Willa Cather received the advice to write about the part of the world she knew best, she turned for … that affected her youth. This summer, the Willa Cather Foundation will provide two special opportunities for …
Posted: 12/27/2014
Last Updated: 07/19/2022

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