not-too-expensive events in the not-too-distant future
These varied events all cost $10 for students. They are neat events because you get to see and hear performances and also there is a presentation by someone closely associated with the performance so you find out lots of good info. And, they are in the Guggenheim Museum’s Rotunda, which is a completely unique place in NYC. Tickets sell out quickly so make plans now if you’re interested.
Works & Process at the Guggenheim Museum
1071 5th Ave (at 89 St.)
New York, NY 10128
212 758 0024
Works and Process website
info@worksandprocess.org
Vanessa—New Visions
MON OCT 29 @ 7:30 PM
Marking the culmination of composer Samuel Barber’s illustrious career, this tense and tragic score won the Pulitzer Prize. Tortured by the memory of a long-lost love, Vanessa lives a lonely and shuttered existence with her mother and her young niece. New York City Opera cast members perform excerpts prior to its New York premiere.
“City Opera continues on its far from sluggish course.”—The New York Post
Jo Kondo & Robert Wilson
SUN and MON, NOV 18 and 19 @ 7:30 PM
Jo Kondo, one of Japan’s eminent composers, and visionary artist Robert Wilson collaborate in this Works & Process commission. Kondo will supervise the preparation of High Window, Beginning, Middle and End, Pendulums, Lotus Dam, and the American premiere of Four Short Poems of Louis Zukofsky. Music accompanies stagings developed at Watermill Center by Wilson, whom the New York Times describes as “a towering figure in the world of experimental theatre and an explorer in the uses of time and space onstage.” World-renowned composer Charles Wuorinen moderates the discussion.
Shen Wei Dance Arts
SUN and MON, DEC 2 and 3 @ 7:30 PM
For the first time, Shen Wei and his company will showcase the full trajectory of the RE- triptych, a series inspired by Shen Wei’s recent journeys to Tibet and Cambodia as well as his return to China’s Silk Road. Shen Wei’s personal process of renewal and rediscovery foregrounds the deeply personal, transcendent, and far-ranging vocabulary, some of which is revealed as a work-in-progress. Shen Wei and members of his company, Shen Wei Dance Arts, participate in a discussion moderated by Lincoln Center Festival Director Nigel Redden.
Dada, Jazz, and the Avant-Garde
SUN and MON, DEC 9 and 10 @ 7:30 PM
The vibrant musical world of Central Europe between the wars comes to life in this program created by pianist Sarah Rothenberg. Erwin Schulhoff’s Jazz Etudes, Paul Hindemith’s Trio for piano, viola and saxophone, Stefan Wolpe’s Dadaist For Anna Blume by Kurt Schwitters, and rarely heard works by Webern and Dessau are performed along with Kurt Weill’s Berlin Songs and Bartok’s Contrasts. Violinist Joel Smirnoff and soprano Lucy Shelton join Rothenberg among others. Foto curator Matt Witkovsky moderates a discussion. Presented in conjunction with Foto: Modernity in Central Europe, 1918–1945, on view October 12, 2007–January 13, 2008. Foto will be open prior to and following the performance.
“An overlooked era of bold experimentation comes into focus”—The Washington Post