Performing Arts
Event
- Title:
- Music, Stage Reading and Panel Discussions
- When:
- 05.09.2010 @ 03:00
- Where:
- USC – Max Kade Institute / The MET Theatre - Los Angeles
- Category:
- Performing Arts
EVENT DESCRIPTION
Max Kade Institute for Austrian-German-Swiss Studies
in cooperation withThe German-American Cultural Society present
Music, Stage Reading and Panel Discussions
1) “Wotan’s Ring Parable” (Street Ballad) Text Cornelius Schnauber, Music Tom Schnauber, performed by Christina Linhardt, soprano, Yulia Levin, piano
2) Stage reading: “Die Nibelungen Saga.“ Richard Wagner’s original story of his “Ring” Tetralogy, read by Eric Braeden
3) Lectures: “Inventing Germany: Wagner and the National Imagination” by Prof. Michael Meyer, CSUN and “How Ant-Semitic was Richard Wagner?” by Prof. Cornelius Schnauber, USC; Panel Discussion to be followed
4) “Fasold and Fafner paint the Town”, “Ring” Rhapsody for two Wagner Tuben and piano by Tom Schnauber. Yulia Levin, piano, (the two Wagner Tuben players TBA)
Max Kade Institute
USC, 2714 S. Hoover Street
Los Angeles 90007Free parking next to the building
Dates:
May 9, 2010 at 3pm
May 17, 2010 at 7:30 pm
RSVP: 213 743 2707
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Venue
- Partner:
- USC – Max Kade Institute / The MET Theatre - Website
- Street:
- 3501 Trousdale Parkway, Mark Taper Hall 449
- ZIP:
- 90089
- City:
- Los Angeles
- State:
- CA
PARTNER DESCRIPTION
USC’s Max Kade Institute for Austrian-German-Swiss Studies is a research institute with its own library and archive. It was founded in 1984 by its present director, Dr. Cornelius Schnauber, and with the support of the Max Kade Foundation, Inc., New York.
The Institute’s main focus is supporting research on German and Austrian film émigrés and exiles, authors, musicians and politicians during the Nazi Period; as well as major seminars, workshops, lectures and performances by leading contemporary authors, artists and politicians from the German-speaking countries and the US.
The Institute also works in cooperation with other institutions in Los Angeles and Europe, including the Goethe-Institut Los Angeles, Villa Aurora, the German-American Cultural Society, the LA Opera, the International Forum for Culture and Economics in Germany, Pro Helvetia in Switzerland and the Cultural Department of the Foreign Office in Austria.
http://college.usc.edu/max-kade/announcements/index.cfm
The MET Theatre has built a reputation for producing varied works, ranging from the experiemental and raw to the traditional and classic. Productions have included Sam Shepard's "Curse of the Starving Class," Murray Mednick's "Scar" (starring Ed Harris) and Beth Henley's "Control Freaks" (starring Holly Hunter, Carol Kane and Bill Pullman). The METTheatre houses one of the premier 90-seat venues in Los Angeles, in addition to a second stage, The Great Scott Theatre.
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