Before he was forced to flee Germany in 1933, Kurt Weill had developed a successful career as the composer of concert works, operas, and, especially, a provocative stage piece with Bertolt Brecht, “The Threepenny Opera.”
Please join us for gallery talks hosted by the Cleveland Museum of Art, one of the world’s most distinguished comprehensive art museums and one of northeastern Ohio’s principal civic and cultural institutions.
The Twenty-First Century Traveler: Considering the "Japanese Experience"
January 30-March 6 | 1:30-3:30 p.m.
LECTURER: Lee Makela, Professor Emeritus, Cleveland State University
Please join us for gallery talks hosted by the Cleveland Museum of Art, one of the world’s most distinguished comprehensive art museums and one of northeastern Ohio’s principal civic and cultural institutions.
From the Renaissance to the Modern: How Literature and Music Connect
January 31-March 7 | 1:30-3:30 p.m.
Lecturer: Daniel Melnick, Lecturer in SAGES, Case Western Reserve University
This course will discuss why we need orchestra conductors, some history of the development of modern conducting, and present musical examples (mostly in video format) of some of the greatest conductors of this and the last century.
Depicting the Holocaust and narrating the events around it raise difficult moral and philosophical conundrums. Yet, artists, photographers and architects have not shied away from the challenge.
Wagner’s final opera, Parsifal, premiered at the second Bayreuth Festival in 1882, was performed at the Metropolitan Opera in 1903, and found its way to the New York Yiddish stage in 1913. Despite Christian symbolism and possible antisemitic suggestion, the opera has inspired Jews to listen, perform, and promote a work of genius.
Enjoy the experience of painting in the outdoors at the University’s scenic Squire Valleevue and Valley Ridge Farms. The instructor uses watercolor, however, any medium is acceptable. The group meets each session at a predetermined location on the farm, paints for 2-3 hours, and then gathers for a bag lunch and viewing of the paintings.