Winner of the Georg Büchner Prize, Germany's most important literature prize, author Martin Mosebach is described as one of “contemporary literature's most humorous and background-rich depicters of humanity” and one of “its most illustrious stylists.” He will read from and discuss his novel What Was Before, hailed by World Literature Today as “social satire at its best.”
Compared by critics to Kafka and Joyce, H. G. Adler is quickly gaining recognition as a key figure in 20th-century fiction. Adler is author of The Wall, a fictional account of his life as a survivor of the Holocaust; and Theresienstadt 1941-1945: The Face of a Coerced Community, the first scholarly monograph to describe the particulars of a single concentration camp, to be published in a new translation in October 2015. The Jewish Museum will present H.G. Adler: A Survivor's Dual Reverie, an author talk featuring Daniel Mendelsohn, Peter Filkins, Ruth Franklin, and H.G. Adler's son Jeremy Adler, on Thursday, May 7 at 7pm. Edwin Frank will serve as moderator for the discussion. This program is co-presented with the PEN World Voices Festival of International Literature, May 4-10, 2015.
In March, the BPO will celebrate classical music's most beloved and influential composer with a festival, including his groundbreaking Ninth Symphony.
Music Director Alan Gilbert will lead the New York Philharmonic in Beethoven's Egmont Overture and Shostakovich's Symphony No. 10 at the Annual Free Memorial Day Concert, Monday, May 25, 2015, at 8:00 p.m. at The Cathedral Church of Saint John the Divine.
German Stage presents the American Premiere of The Whole World by award-winning playwrights Theresia Walser and Karl-Heinz Ott, directed by Guy Ben-Aharon.
In March, the BPO will celebrate classical music's most beloved and influential composer with a festival, including his groundbreaking Ninth Symphony.
Trader Joe's® Silent Movie Mondays return in March featuring the theme GERMAN SILENTS. The three part series will include masterpieces varying from science fiction to literary classic to documentary of daily life in Berlin. German-Jewish artists who fled to the U.S. and had significant influences on American Cinema made all of the films to be featured throughout the month. Following each film, CineClub will be held in The Paramount Bar. CineClub includes a community discussion around the film of the evening, silent film trivia questions and exploration of the silent film genre.
Israeli Stage is partnering with Israeli American Council - Boston to present the New England Premiere of Edna Mazya's award-winning play, Games in the Back Yard, featuring some of Boston's greatest up-and-coming talent. Based on a true story, Mazya's play depicts the events leading up to and following the physical and mental abuse of a fourteen-year-old girl by a group of teenage boys. The performance takes place on February 15th, 2015 at 7PM, at Goethe-Institut | 170 Beacon Street, Boston, MA 02116.
Kenan Fellows studying arts and education with Lincoln Center Education will present their work this weekend, January 29 - 31, 2015 at the Clark Studio Theater at Lincoln Center Education, 70 Lincoln Center Plaza, Rose Building, 7th Floor.
In commemoration of International Holocaust Remembrance Day and the 70th Anniversary of World War II, Goethe-Institut Boston's German Stage, in association with the Austrian Cultural Forum New York and Israeli Stage, presents the American Premiere of A CASE NAMED FREUD in five locations this week. The opening night staged reading marked the tenth German Stage production since 2012 and provided a backdrop to the farewell for Goethe-Institut Director Detlef Gericke who has served in Boston for six years.
At the 65th Berlin International Film Festival, film historian and former director of the Moscow Film Museum Naum Kleiman will be awarded the Berlinale Camera.
Kenan Fellows studying arts and education with Lincoln Center Education will present their work from January 29 - 31, 2015 at the Clark Studio Theater at Lincoln Center Education, 70 Lincoln Center Plaza, Rose Building, 7th Floor.
The Goethe-Institut Boston, in assocaition with the Austrian Cultural Forum New York and Israeli Stage, and with the support of the Laura & Lorenz Reibling Family Foundation, presents the American Premiere of A Case Named Freud by award-winning playwright Savyon Liebrecht.
Austrian Stage will present Thomas Bernhard's THE WORLD FIXER tonight, Dec 12, 2014 at 7PM at the Austrian Cultural Forum, NY.
VIRGIL THOMSON (1896-1989) COMMEMORATION OF 25th ANNIVERSARY OF HIS DEATH // ACTIVITIES 2013-2015
This week, Mr. van Zweden will lead the Orchestra in Korngold's Violin Concerto, with Hilary Hahn as soloist; Beethoven's Symphony No. 7; and J. Wagenaar's Cyrano de Bergerac Overture, marking the Philharmonic's first time performing the work, tonight, November 26, 2014, at 7:30 p.m.; Friday, November 28 at 8:00 p.m.; and Saturday, November 29 at 8:00 p.m.
The Museum of Anthropology (MOA) at UBC takes a profound look at Kenya's popular culture through an illuminating collection of studio photography, from the 1910s to the present day, in the North American premiere of Piga Picha!, today, November 25, 2014 through April 4, 2015.
ECCE kicks of its 7th season with a concert encompassing works by seven noted contemporary composers at New York City's The DiMenna Center tonight, November 20, 2014.
Jaap van Zweden - music director of the Dallas Symphony Orchestra and Hong Kong Philharmonic as well as former concertmaster of Amsterdam's Royal Concertgebouw Orchestra - will return to the New York Philharmonic for the first time since his debut in April 2012 to conduct two weeks of concerts. In the first program, Mr. van Zweden will conduct Mozart's Sinfonia concertante for Violin and Viola, featuring Acting Concertmaster Sheryl Staples and Principal Viola Cynthia Phelps, and Shostakovich's Symphony No. 8, tonight, November 20, 2014, at 7:30 p.m.; Friday, November 21 at 2:00 p.m.; and Saturday, November 22 at 8:00 p.m.
From today, November 15 through December 6, 2014, the Balassi Institute/Hungarian Cultural Center of New York in collaboration with the Abrons Arts Center presentsTÁNC/DANCE, a series of daring and graphic new performances by three Hungarian contemporary dance ensembles, shedding light on today's Central European avant-garde independent dance scene.
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