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Music on the Prairie
… Image Music on the Prairie May 16, 2011 When Willa Cather received the advice to write about the part of … at www.WillaCather.org. Place-Based Identity: A creative-nonfiction workshop focused on connections between self and …
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Alex Ross to Keynote 65th Annual Willa Cather Spring Conference
… Image Alex Ross to Keynote 65th Annual Willa Cather Spring Conference May 19, 2020 Join us as we welcome Alex Ross, Music Critic for The New Yorker , back to Red Cloud as … His talk, "Willa Cather, Olive Fremstad, and the Singer in Fiction," will focus on the world of Cather's singers, …
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56th Annual Willa Cather Spring Conference
… Image 56th Annual Willa Cather Spring Conference February 7, 2011 In May 1916, … popular culture of her day. From her enjoyment of popular music, movies, and books, to her writings about actresses … Cloud will feature popular songs and stories from Cather's fiction. On Friday night, Charles Smith, Fritz Mountford, …
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Willa Cather Spring Conference 2009
… Image Willa Cather Spring Conference 2009 July 22, 2008 WISDOM IN THE … religious, moral, and spiritual themes in some of Cather's prairie fiction. Special speakers will include Bishop Frank … Moseley, and other noted Cather scholars. There will be a Gallery show and lecture as well as a feature on Lucy …
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2014 Willa Cather Spring Conference
… Image 2014 Willa Cather Spring Conference March 13, 2014 Mapping Literary … and Ecosystems June 5–7, 2014 | Red Cloud, Nebraska The Willa Cather Foundation is pleased to welcome Clay … her earliest fiction, Cather was closely attuned to the world around her, and her beautifully limned landscapes are …
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Events
… Events National Willa Cather Center Events Experience the arts, literature, and programs that connect to Willa Cather’s life and writing. Events include performances at the historic Red Cloud Opera … exhibitions, conferences, and cultural programs. Upcoming Events Click here to view past events Keywords …
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Finding Aids
… Jr., Private Library No. 22 Alcott, Louisa M. Old-Fashioned Girl 1887 Wm. Cather Jr., Private Library No. 24 Alcott, … Romance of the Ku Klux Klan 1907 Back page: "pg. 124, 125 Slavery" Dixon, Thomas, Jr. The Southerner: A Romance of the … Cather's Campus Years Willa Cather 1950 Book BK-207-013 Sapphira and the Slave Girl Willa Cather 1940 Book …
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A Visit with Sarah Arneson
… Image Sarah as Constanza from Mozart’s Abduction of the Seraglio A Visit … Arneson Red Cloud’s Very Own Operatic Soprano August 15, 2023 Sarah Arneson was born and raised in Red Cloud and has … Gynt” — referencing Norwegian immigrants as in Cather’s O Pioneers! Dvorak’s “Songs my Mother Taught Me” — Czech …
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Virtual Author Series: David McKay Powell
… Online Now Learn more about the art form that inspired Willa Cather during her entire life! Author David McKay … event is free but requires registration. Throughout her fiction, Willa Cather mentioned forty-seven operas. … in roughly half of her short stories. Despite a dearth of musical education, Cather produced astute writing about the …
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Annotations from the Archive: Early Magazine Days
… and prolific career in magazine writing and editing: “Miss Willa Cather, the editor of the Home Monthly , is not … as a writer, and the successes of her future brilliant fiction. You can read more about her views on magazine … I was very demure and discussed flower gardening church music…” To Will Owen Jones (January 15, 1897) — “I may not …
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