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Stevie Wonder’s albums from the 1970’s mark one of the most extraordinary, creative streaks in the history of popular music. Innervisions from 1973 marks a key moment in that streak, when the subject matter in his songwriting broadens beyond the traditional romantic ballad to also address a wide range of contemporary themes and issues such as drug abuse, racial inequality, systemic racism, and political commentary, all expressed through...
This program is taking place remotely. If you have signed up, you will receive an email with details of how to access the program. __________________ George Gershwin traveled to Paris in 1928, intent on composing a new orchestral piece. The result: An American in Paris, his first for orchestra alone, with no part included for piano soloist. Some consider this piece to be his orchestral masterpiece. This lecture explores the work in context...
On the eve of the release of her third album, Ladies of the Canyon, Joni Mitchell cancelled all upcoming performances and took the first of her many “retirements,” spending much of 1970 traveling in Europe. The hiatus proved restorative, and led to what many consider her greatest album, Blue. Mitchell acknowledges that Blue ”… is probably the purest emotional record that I will ever make in my life …. Everything became kind of transparent....
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One of the unique aspects of Stephen Sondheim’s work is the manner with which he fused theater song with classical forms in order to create larger musical song/scenes. Sonata form, rondo, theme and variations, fugue, minuet/trio forms, contrapuntal trios, quartets, and choral sequences—all are utilized in service of musically dramatizing the theatrical moment. Come explore this unusual fusion of the popular and the classical through the in-depth...
The late 1950’s, sideman to Miles Davis and Thelonious Monk, overcoming heroin addiction, finding his voice, going solo—all culminating with two splendid albums, Giant Steps and My Favorite Things that make John Coltrane a major force to be reckoned with in the world of jazz. For most jazz musicians who came of age in the 1960’s and 1970’s, music is divided into two eras: before Coltrane and after Coltrane. Come listen to this thrilling,...
This program is taking place remotely. If you have signed up, you will receive an email with details of how to access the program. If we are able to offer an in-person version of this class in the coming months, we will contact you and make both options available to you. Pilates class helps dancers maintain their own instrument (the body) and provides tools for achieving health and well-being. Pilates exercises build strength, flexibility, and...
Taylor Branch Master Class on Martin Luther King, Jr. and the Civil Rights Movement This program is taking place remotely. If you have signed up, you will receive an email with details of how to access the program. You will have exclusive access to view it at the scheduled time, or any time afterwards. At this crucial moment in America’s struggle for social justice, the recalling of history must animate our discussions. The Great Thinkers...
What was daily life like for the Jews during their almost fifteen-hundred-year sojourn in the Iberian Peninsula? This course will explore the social and religious aspects of Iberian Jewish life, from its origins in early Roman times, through its development under Islam, down through the expulsions and forced conversions to Christianity. Dr. Benjamin Gampel, the Dina and Eli Field Family Chair in Jewish History at Jewish Theological Seminary, will...
What was daily life like for the Jews during their almost fifteen-hundred-year sojourn in the Iberian Peninsula? This course will explore the social and religious aspects of Iberian Jewish life, from its origins in early Roman times, through its development under Islam, down through the expulsions and forced conversions to Christianity. Dr. Benjamin Gampel, the Dina and Eli Field Family Chair in Jewish History at Jewish Theological Seminary, will...
Bill Goldstein: Making Modernism: Virginia Woolf and E. M. Forster at Work E.M. Forster’s A Passage to India (1924) and Virginia Woolf’s Mrs. Dalloway (1925) are two of the greatest and most widely read novels of the 20th Century. This August, we will explore the ways in which Forster and Woolf, lifelong friends but also wary rivals, embraced and helped remake modernism. Despite their many literary differences, Woolf thought of...
This program is taking place remotely. If you have signed up, you will receive an email with details of how to access the program. If we are able to offer an in-person version of this class in the coming months, we will contact you and make both options available to you. _______________ To quote Stephen Sondheim, “My voice snuck up on me. I started to develop an attitude in Saturday Night, a laconic lyrical style in Gypsy and...
By 1973, Joni Mitchell was ready for a change. In an interview at that time she said, “I just couldn’t stay in that lonely Blue place very long.” And she wanted a band. Enter Tom Scott and the L.A. Express. The table was now set for another artistic breakthrough, this one unexpectedly accompanied by stunning commercial success. Her 1974 release, Court and Spark, offers a song cycle-like narrative clothed in a jazz-rock sound fusion that reflects...
Sondheim, Part III: A Little Night Music—Music, Lyrics and the Art of Adaptation Early in the development of this adaptation of Bergman’s Smiles of a Summer Night when Sondheim was about to leave the project he received advice from a real-life Muse who told him that writing the score for this project would let him show off; “I could let loose with verbal dazzle and technical prowess, something that I had been able to demonstrate only...
92nd Street Y @ Online Classroom, New York, NY
Join Jonathan Wahl the Director of the 92Y Jewelry Center for a discussion with the leading international gallerists representing Art Jewelry from Canada to Bangkok.
Virginia Woolf and E. M. Forster-Aspects of Two Novels: Howards End and To the Lighthouse E. M. Forster and Virginia Woolf were lifelong friends and literary rivals and reading their novels in tandem illuminates’ key aspects of their enduring achievements. In this class, we will read two masterpieces of 20th Century English literature: Forster’s Howards End, published in 1910, and Virginia Woolf’s To the Lighthouse, published in...
Mozart—Symphony No. 41, “Jupiter”: Transcendent Perfection This program is taking place remotely. If you have signed up, you will receive an email with details of how to access the program. If we are able to offer an in-person version of this class in the coming months, we will contact you and make both options available to you. Mozart experienced broad adulation in his early years in Vienna, but within five years was experiencing...
The Beatles, Part V: Revolver and Musical Innovation This program is taking place remotely. If you have signed up, you will receive an email with details of how to access the program. If we are able to offer an in-person version of this class in the coming months, we will contact you and make both options available to you. Revolver was unlike any album that preceded it. The only album release from The Beatles in 1966, Revolver was...
Always wanted to learn Hebrew but never been quite sure where to start? Join Michal Nachmany (your boot camp trainer) for this stress-free two-part crash course. We will learn Hebrew letters and vowels, as well as basic Hebrew words and phrases. At the end of this course, you will feel more comfortable at your next virtual Shabbat dinner, or Shabbat service. All are welcome though this class is best for beginners. We will be using “Teach Yourself...
On December 22, 1808, Beethoven presented a concert at Vienna’s Theater-an-der-Wien that included so many extraordinary world premieres that it can almost be described as an embarrassment of riches: Symphony in C Minor, Symphony in F Major (“Pastoral”), the Choral Fantasy and the Fourth Piano Concerto in G major among them; and the premiere of the concerto marked Beethoven’s final appearance playing a concerto in public. In this piece, as...
John Lennon – how to describe him? Founder of The Beatles and brilliant solo artist. A political and social justice activist. Half of the greatest songwriting team in the second half of the 20th century, yet possessing an utterly unique songwriting voice of his own. Had John lived he would have turned 80 this fall, so we celebrate his extraordinary legacy, exploring a selection of great songs spanning from his early work with The Beatles to his...
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