Villa Aurora Events Archive
January 2017
Eclectic Salon
Villa Aurora (520 Paseo Miramar, Los Angeles, CA 90272)
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Salastina + LACO
Lift Every Voice
This season marks Jeffrey Kahane's last as music director of the Los Angeles Chamber Orchestra. The centerpiece of this season is “Lift Every Voice,” a three-week festival in January. The festival includes concerts, conversations and community engagement curated by Kahane to explore themes of tolerance, compassion, cooperation and creativity. It celebrates the power of music to encourage understanding and promote peace. The festival is inspired by the lives of human and civil rights champions Rabbi Joachim Prinz and composer Kurt Weill.
Salastina is honored to participate in such a meaningful festival designed by Kahane -- a consummate musician, scholar, and humanitarian.
Program
Kurt Weill: String Quartet in B minor
Behzad Ranjbaran: Caprices for Two Violins
Benjamin Britten: String Quartet No. 2 in C Major
Artists: Maia Jasper White and Kevin Kumar (co-directors and violins), Meredith Crawford (resident viola), Peter Myers (guest cello), Brian Lauritzen (resident host)
Salon Sophie Charlotte 2017: Rebellions, Revolutions or Reforms?
Berlin
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Und wenn sie alle dich verschrein / so wickle in dich selbst dich ein - Matthias Claudius
Sabine Scho und Martina Hefter
The text-dance performance by author Sabine Scho and author/dancer Martina Hefter research Karl Philipp Moritz' Magazin zur Erfahrungsseelenkunde (Magazine for the Research of the Soul) as source of the revolutionary spirit, knowing that, in order to go on a warpath you have to go into inner emigration first. You gotta get in to get out. (Genesis)
7.30 / 9.30 PM 20 minutes each
...rrr!..!
Kirsten Reese
This installation is based on text and audio source material such as speeches, demonstrations and debates of revolutions and rebellions from 1517 to today. It comes from historical (sound) archives, the web and social media eminating from 30 sound cubes. Audiences can approach each speaker and follow individual voices and historical situation, but are also able to regroup the sound sources in new and different constellations.
Geist, 2016 / Weil Deren Reiche
Tina Born
This installation adorns the big ball lights of the Säulensaal with phrases of female individuals and pioneers in their respective field of work. They feature the French philosopher Simone Weil (1909–1943), the American dancer and film theorist Maya Deren (1917–1961), and Maria Reiche (1903–1998), a German mathematician, who spent 50 years to map systematically the Peruvian earth paintings of Nazca, the protecion and preservation of which she fostered.
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There will be artistic and scientific contributions by over 100 participants all over the entire building of the Akademie. See the program here.
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This event is free.
Venue: Berlin-Brandenburgische Akademie der Wissenschaften
Akademiegebäude am Gendarmenmarkt
Säulensaal, 2. OG
Markgrafenstraße 38, 10117 Berlin
Artists in Exile
Villa Aurora (520 Paseo Miramar, Los Angeles, CA 90272)
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Kurt Weill, Bertolt Brecht, Arnold Schoenberg, Fritz Lang
Join us for a salon and discussion about the extraordinary artists who lived and worked in Los Angeles before, during and after WWII. Presented in collaboration with Center for the Art of Performance at UCLA, and their production with LACO of Kurt Weill’s Lost in the Stars. Moderated by Donna Rifkind, author of the soon to be released, The Sun and Her Stars: Salka Viertel and Hitler's Exiles in Hollywood. Salon participants: Doris Berger, Exhibition Curator at the Academy Museum of Motion Pictures, Arts and Sciences; Friedel Schmoranzer, Project Coordinator at Villa Aurora; and Neal Brostoff, music producer, educator and recent lecturer in Jewish music in the UCLA Department of Ethnomusicology.
With the influx of refugees in the 30s, Hollywood became a kind of Athens. It was as crowded with artists as Renaissance Florence. It was a Golden Era...It had never happened before. It will never happen again. -- S.N. Behrman
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