Villa Aurora Events Archive
April 2019
Concert: ECLECTIC SALON Salastina Music Society & Villa Aurora present "Sounds Local"
Villa Aurora (520 Paseo Miramar, Los Angeles, CA 90272)
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Salastina Music Society & Villa Aurora proudly continue our tradition of presenting what’s most beautiful to us among LA’s vast selection of new musical offerings.
We invite listeners to join composers, musicians, and artists to celebrate the beauty of the past and present, and to create a future in the spirit of inclusivity.
Program:
Derrick Spiva, Jr: Grace Unbound (world premiere)
Peter Knell: Intimate Voices
Gabrielle Owens: Shadows and Songs (world premiere)
Juan Pablo Contreras: Voladores de Panatela
Sounds Promising Composers:
Emily Webster-Zuber: Pastorale, Op 1 (world premiere)
Kaitlin Webster-Zuber: Rhapsody, Op 1 (world premiere)
Sakari Dixon Vanderveer: Obsidian, rippled in moonlight, gleams (world premiere)
Artists:
Ben Smolen (resident flute), Kevin Kumar (co-director/violin), Heather Powell (guest violin), Meredith Crawford (resident viola), Yoshika Masuda (resident cello),
HyeJin Kim (resident piano)
Brian Lauritzen, resident host/artist partner
Sounds Promising musicians: Emily Webster-Zuber (piano), Kaitlin Webster-Zuber (piano), Maya Paredes (piano)
Tickets
Please note that tickets are $40 at the door.
Student tickets are $10 at the door with valid ID.
Click here for $32 advance purchase tickets.
Screening Verlorene (Lost Ones)
California State University Long Beach (1250 Bellflower Blvd, Long Beach, CA 90840, Room LH-150)
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California State University Long Beach and Villa Aurora present:
VERLORENE (Lost Ones)
IN PERSON: Director Felix Hassenfratz
Germany, 2018, 91 min, In German with English subtitles
Following the death of their mother, Maria and Hannah live alone with their father in the southern German province. When Valentin, a carpenter on the road, shows up, Maria falls in love with him. But a dark secret prevents Maria from surrendering to this love. A secret that she also hides from her sister. LOST ONES tells a universal story of perhaps the strongest of all forces: that invisible bond between siblings of guilt and of a longing for love against all reason.
Theater Play: Women at Work - Käthe Leichter and Marie Jahoda
Villa Aurora (520 Paseo Miramar, Los Angeles, CA 90272)
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“Women at Work – Käthe Leichter and Marie Jahoda” is directed by Sandra Schüddekopf, with Anita Zieher as Käthe Leichter and Brigitta Waschnig as Marie Jahoda.
This performance at Villa Aurora is part of a U.S. tour of the show by the Viennese company portraittheater.
USC Libraries, Max Kade Institute of Austrian-German-Swiss Studies at USC, and Villa Aurora present:
Women at Work: Käthe Leichter and Marie Jahoda
This play highlights the life and achievements of Käthe Leichter (1895–1942) and Marie Jahoda (1907–2001), two Austrian pioneers researching and writing about unemployment, work and gender pay inequality in the 1920s and 1930s. Both women were political activists who opposed the rise of fascism and the Nazis in Austria, and the play portrays them against a backdrop of politically turbulent times.
A Cultural & Literary Salon
Los Angeles
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SEEfest and Villa Aurora present:
A Cultural & Literary Salon with Villa Aurora Fellow Fatma Aydemir
Concert: Lost and found - The Rediscovery of Ingolf Dahl
Villa Aurora (520 Paseo Miramar, Los Angeles, CA 90272)
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The Piano Duo:
Friederike Haufe and Volker Ahmels had their international debut as a piano duo in 1997 in Israel and the Palestinian Territories. They played in both parts of Jerusalem, in Tel Aviv and Haifa. They have been touring international festivals and concert halls ever since.
The duo's international research and "discovery" of composers, who were deported to and killed in extermination camps or driven into exile, became a focal point in their lives and work. In 2012, they recorded „Der Ochse auf dem Dach und andere Verbote“ a CD (Granola/Vienna) with works by Milhaud, Gál, Schönberg, Smit, Schulhoff and Toch.
Since 2016, the piano duo has been focused on the publication and revival of the oeuvre of Ingolf Dahl.
In 2017, they premiered and recorded „Four Intervals“, followed by the „Rondo“ (2018) and the publication of the entire sheet music for Ingolf Dahl's piano works for four hands.
In December of 2018, German President, Frank Walter Steinmeier awarded the German Medal of Honor to Volker Ahmels for his achievements as head of the "Center for Degenerate Music" at the music academy in Schwerin Musik in Schwerin.
The Concert:
This concert features 5 composers, who were all forced to leave Europe for their American exile where they were able to build on their careers quite successfully.
Arnold Schönberg and Ingolf Dahl made their new home in Los Angeles. After WWII Darius Milhaud and Paul Hindemith lived and worked both in Europe and in the U.S.. Only Alexandre Tansman returned back to Paris permanently in 1946.
The Composer Ingolf Dahl:
He was the son of a Swedish mother and a German father of Jewish origin. After growing up in Hamburg, Dahl started his career as pianist, conductor and composer. In 1931, he began to study composition with Philipp Jarnach in Cologne. Being confronted with growing anti-Semitism, in Germany he moved to Zürich in 1932 to study at the conservatory.
His studies were quickly followed by engagements at the Zürich Municipal Theatre, now called the Zürich Opera House.
In 1939 the 27-year old Dahl followed his American fiancée to Los Angeles, where he settled down as professor at USC.
Dahl considered himself a U.S. composer of Swedish origin. His German-Jewish roots were widely unknown.
Ingolf Dahl was friends with all of the composers in this program.
Programs
Arnold Schönberg (1874-1951)
from „6 pieces for piano for 4 hands“ (1896)
Ingolf Dahl (1912-1970)
„Four Intervals“ (1967)
First U.S. revival since 1970
Darius Milhaud (1892-1974)
„Le Boeuf sur le Toit“ op.58 (1919)
Arranged for 4 hands by the composer.
Alexandre Tansman 1897-1986)
„La Danse de la Sorcière“ (1923)
Arranged for 4 hands by the composer.
Paul Hindemith (1885-1963)
„Ragtime“ (well tempered) (1921)
Arranged for 4 hands by the composer.
Ingolf Dahl
„Rondo for piano four handed“ (1938)
First U.S. revival since 1940
Paul Hindemith
Symphony „Mathis der Maler“ (1934)
Arranged by the composer for 4 hands
Concert: place/displace
Villa Aurora (520 Paseo Miramar, Los Angeles, CA 90272)
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German composer von Lilienstern spent three months in Los Angeles on a Villa Aurora fellowship last year. His new work was specifically written for this program and poetically derived from his string quartet.
Other works in the program are:
Davor Vincze’s bass flute and live electronics work Take your time…hurry-up! (2015-16) L.A. Premiere.
Mu-Xuan Lin figuratively à.. (2018-19) for flute and electronics L.A. Premiere.
The only piece on the program composed before the Twenty-first Century, Luc Ferrari’s Madame de Shanghai (1996) performed here in version for solo flute and electronics.
place/displace is a collaborative project that involves artists from Berlin, Paris, San Francisco, and Los Angeles, jointly produced by PIE and Villa Aurora. The program will also feature Paris-based Taiwanese flutist Shao Wei Chou.
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